Email help

Old_Skool

Hi All,

I'm working on a little project for a friend who has a small business at present, I've got his web site up and running but would now like to move on with a monthly email newsletter for current customers.

I would like to be able to generate a simple email that appears like a mini -web page within the email body, like the sort of email well known supermarkets send out (sorry, don't know the correct term for this type of email).

Any pointers or advice on how to go about this would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Debt_Free_Chick

Don't you just need to send it in HTML format?

Bear in mind that some email progs e.g. Outlook, will not automatically display graphics & links which kinda defeats the object.

Old_Skool

Hi Debt_Free_Chick,

Thanks for your reply.

I've tried setting an html document as the background in outlook express but this didn't work properly.

I'm just struggling how to get my head around constructing such an email. I've noticed that a lot of the emails of this type I've seen seem to be have Unicode encoding - not really sure what that is.

I've had a bit of fumble around OE and tried a few things but I need a bit of advice on the correct way to construct this type of email.

Hopefully it will be within my limitations :rotfl:

misterthrifty

Hope it's OK to bump this and extend the question a bit. I want to do a similar thing but I understand there are programmes for creating newsletters which also manage the list of email addresses and send out the emails in a way that avoids them being spammed. Any suggestions for a suitable free or low cost one?

U've_been_framed

The simplest way may be to try and find an html newsletter template that you can adapt.
Edit it in an html editor (if there's a lot of text you may find it easier to start in Word and copy the text over).
When you are happy with the result, select all and copy and paste it into a blank message in your email program. Make sure it is set up for html format.
Send it to yourself first; you may find that the message is enormous, or that it doesn't appear as it should.
When you are happy send it out to the mailing list as a blind carbon copy. This prevents people from seeing who else is on the mailing list.

Good luck

Sarahjovi

Hi,

I recent set up an email HTML template for a email newsletter using Microsoft Publisher. When you're ready to send the newsletter it automatically sends via your email programme!

Sarah