Re: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email

2010-01-08 Thread David McKinnon
My bad, we're still on Outlook 2003 where I work. Later Outlook versions as you say, use Word, but that's not a good thing. http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/01/10/microsoft-breaks-html-email-rendering-in-outlook/ On 08/01/2010, at 11:13 AM, Michael MD wrote: I thought Outlook uses Word as

Re: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email

2010-01-07 Thread Jayachandran Kandasamy
Hi Paul, Check this links you may get some ideas behind it.. :) http://www.addme.com/newsletters/issue293.htm http://www.mailchimp.com/resources/html_email_templates/ cheers, JC On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Paul Collins pauldcoll...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, A client of mine wants a HTML

Re: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email

2010-01-07 Thread David McKinnon
If there's anything I've learned about doing HTM email is that it can't be done very well on a budget. That said, I'd recommend Campaign Monitor's or MailChimp's free templates as a good starting point: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/templates/ You can then use these in your email client and

RE: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email

2010-01-07 Thread Michael MD
Since Outlook is not the best HTML editor it's quite likely something will get broken at some stage or other, so it's not fool-proof, but it produces better results than Word. I thought Outlook uses Word as its editor. If you want to build html email functionality into a cms or script this

Re: [WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email

2010-01-07 Thread Marie-Laure Bouchet
This article from Freelanceswitch gives some good practical info on email newsletters as well as ammunition to persuade clients! http://tinyurl.com/ybsvoyq I know Paul didn't want to spend time on Campaign Monitor, but they do make sure that their templates are readable in nearly all major

[WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email

2010-01-06 Thread Paul Collins
Hi all, A client of mine wants a HTML email with very little budget! So, I don't want to spend time setting it up in Campaign monitor for him. I'm wondering, can you send HTML emails straight from Word or Acrobat, or something like that these days? I'm not up to speed and can't find any info. It