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DRAGON'S BREATH |
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How to Send an HTML Newsletter Via Arrow |
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Quick links may not work in all e-mail
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Important NotesAll links must be absolute pathnames � no relative pathnames.� (Create content offline, referencing elements on the live heroesanddragons.com site, then load the content onto the live site.) Arrow will not display escape sequences (like for �).� So use � for �. Internal style sheets in the HTML will display in most e-mail programs, but external CSSs only work in a few.� Avoid external CSS. Internal CSS aren't 100% compatible with e-mail programs (e.g. Hotmail), so layer user-defined styles (.section) on top of regular item-by-item formatting (<b><size="2"> etc.).
Use Microsoft Outlook Express to generate the message to post to the list.� Regular Outlook doesn't export to the necessary .EML file and may lose header information needed by Arrow. Arrow sends all images as attachments, increasing the size of the e-mail generated.� (This page, for example, would be 50-80K depending on the length of the text.)� Arrow doesn't allow you to reference the images from an outside site (as far as I know), so keep graphics small and few. You can use Arrow template macros (%listaddress% etc.), but you should always use <pre> before %statistics% and %listsubscribers% to prevent the lists from piling on top of each other.� (They don't have <p> or <br> tags in them!) <LI>s in the "CONTENTS" list and bulleted lists (<ul> and <ol>) have a style="margin-bottom: 2" value.� Yahoo will still double-space, but this keeps all mail programs from doing it. Miraculously, tables seem to work O.K.� (I'll regret typing that later, I'm sure.) Setting Up HTML TemplatesCreate the template in FrontPage or a text editor, with an eye toward the Important Notes above. Upload the template to the Newsletter/Templates directory on heroesanddragons.com. Open Outlook Express and select "Create New E-Mail > From Web Page."� Open the template page live from the site. Remove the extraneous space from the top of the message. "Save As" an .EML file, into the /Arrow/Lists/Dragon'sBreath directory. Open the .EML file using a text editor (WordPad) and change the headers to: To: %address% "Save As" a .TXT file, into the /Arrow/Lists/Dragon'sBreath directory. Don't forget to duplicate Welcome.TXT as FAQ.txt (if you intend to maintain a FAQ document for your list). Sending HTML MessagesCreate the e-mail in FrontPage or a text editor, with an eye toward the Important Notes above. Upload the e-mail to the Newsletter/Archive/Volume08 directory on heroesanddragons.com.� Name it 8.00x.htm. Open Outlook Express and select "Create New E-Mail > From Web Page."� Open the e-mail page live from the site. Remove the extraneous space from the top of the message. Send the message to the Dragon's Breath mailing list, using an address that's subscribed to the list. The "Disallow Posting?" attribute for the sending e-mail address should be set to "No," to allow the address to post to the list.� Under the list's "Properties," set "Who From" to "List (Don't Add From)" so that the sending address doesn't show up in the "From" field on the message that goes to the list. Specific ISP/E-Mail Program NotesEudora Lite
America Online (AOL)
Hotmail
Yahoo!
Lycos
BellSouth
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