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    Default May I use NOF11 to create a HTML e-mailing?

    Hello,

    Not sure I am very clear in my question (sorry, I'm French)...
    What I want to do is create an e-mail, looking professional, that I want to send to all my customers (like a newsletter).

    It seems that this needs to be done using html if I want to obtain a good looking thing on any computer and system.

    I thought maybe I could use NOF (mine is 11) to do this?

    Anyone here already done this, and could please tell me more about it?

    Thank you.

    Greetings from France

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    Yes, it can be done. I did it some years ago, but now use a different system. just do a local publish and then copy paste the HTML to your emailer program.

    Give it a whirl

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1FugleyKiwi View Post
    Yes, it can be done. I did it some years ago, but now use a different system. just do a local publish and then copy paste the HTML to your emailer program.

    Give it a whirl
    Here are a few tips-email clients are not sophisticated browsers and are limited in what they'll display.
    -Maximum width 600 px
    -Images must be stored on a web server. (You must use the full URL to display graphics in the e-mail. Ex: http: / / www.mysite.com/ images/ picture.gif )
    -Links must be to a full url.
    -Use TABLES. Rule of thumb is to "code like it's 1999". No CSS to be safe.
    -Use <p></p> instead of <div></div> for alignment.
    -No Scripts or meta tags.

    Make sure you test it in many platforms. Or try Mail Chimp.
    John Walker
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    Frankly, as John says, I'd go with MailChimp rather than trying to do it myself. There are also some pretty good email servers available if you want to do it inhouse and if your bandwidth can handle the number of emails you want to send out. I use K-ML for small stuff; Mail Chimp for larger mailouts (let their servers take the load).

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    Default Re: May I use NOF11 to create a HTML e-mailing?

    FlodAriege <FlodAriege.5vqn20@no-mx.forums.netobjects.com> wrote in news:FlodAriege.5vqn20
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    >
    > Hello,
    >
    > Not sure I am very clear in my question (sorry, I'm French)...
    > What I want to do is create an e-mail, looking professional, that I
    > want to send to all my customers (like a newsletter).
    >
    > It seems that this needs to be done using html if I want to obtain a
    > good looking thing on any computer and system.
    >
    > I thought maybe I could use NOF (mine is 11) to do this?
    >
    > Anyone here already done this, and could please tell me more about it?
    >
    > Thank you.
    >
    > Greetings from France
    >
    >


    It's fairly simple. Assuming you have a database of your customers on the server you will need to write
    a simple procedure to retrieve the email addresses (and anything else you want to use) from the
    database one at a time. Look on line for PHP mail script. There are a number that will send your mail
    from the website. Just use an smtp server definition since the usual internal php function sends no
    html tags.

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