HTML newsletter

[momdig]

We are having trouble viewing HTML formatting on some email programmes although viewable as HTML on most. Is there any suggested code that we could be missing other then standard HTML? THANK YOU!

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

It is entirely possible that your e-mail clients are set to display text-only. People (darn their free will) can do that and there's not a lot you can do to stop 'em.

Have you considered only sending short text messages with links to a fancy web page? That way, the URL is on the web and the text is in e-mail. It can be a cleaner thing to do. Besides, if you have people who read mail off-network, then whatever references you have in your e-mail will get broken, too.

Cheers,


Edward

Like Lovecraft? Know Photoshop? Got time for the Unspeakable?

http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_Dreamquest.html

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

You know, the other bonus to having HTML newsletters online is that it's a total no-brainer to keep archives. When you send your e-mail out, it's basically supporting text and the link to the online version, which has everything you wanted to put in the HTML e-mail, plus things you might not be able to put in the HTML newsletter.

And why keep archives, you might ask? Because as your archives grow, your users can find news that they missed, or that they forgot. Your site becomes a vital source of information for them. Furthermore, Google can read your archives and, pretty much, Google is god.

The second you send out an e-mail newsletter, you immediately cut off all future clients from that data. If you keep archives, new clients automatically have access to the old data as well as all the new data that comes in. This is a total win-win scenario!

Cheers,


Edward

Like Lovecraft? Know Photoshop? Got time for the Unspeakable?

http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_Dreamquest.html