Damian Hupfeld
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| Posted: 01/16/2005, 12:10 AM |
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3 part question - any help for any part will be appreciated - and I'm sure
that the solution would be useful to many of you - for those of you
developing for customers you may find this project to be quite useful
(saleable?).
Part 1.
I am creating a bit of a portal that allows a customer of mine to logon and
create a HTML newsletter. They can have guest authors provide content for
the newsletter etc. They can choose a THEME from a drop down list. Once they
are happy they click the publish tick box and the page is visible on the
website.
They want to email this to their newsletter subscribers.
First step was to get the page so that the included styles would display
correctly. I found that copying the page an pasting into Outlook or Outlook
Express would not retain the links to the external CSS file so all my pretty
formatting was removed. I found that INTERNAL CSS would work from Outlook
Express - and sometimes from Outlook.
Anyone worked out how to create code to send the entire OUTPUT page to an
email address from within the project - could have a button that is only
visible to a logged in user with the rights to SEND the email?
Part 2.
If I collect the Subscribers names on the website in my DB can I then
increase the functionality of the above to allow me to send it to ALL my
subscribers - probably in the BCC field.
Part 3.
Would be to do to extend this functionality so that it would send the email
to the whole subscriber list - who had chosen HTML formatting in their
preferences. I would then set up a very similar page without all the HTML
for the TEXT subscribers.
If anyone wants to sample it - please be sensible about what you post. Also
its very much in early stages of development. Comments are still
appreciated. Login is codecharge/forum
The links are-
management
http://www.howardrecruitment.com.au/news_list.php
output
http://www.howardrecruitment.com.au/news.php
As an aside - if anyone can tell me how to get my Outlook to accept my
Internal or External CSS styles when I do a copy and Paste - that would also
be much appreciated.
regards
Damian Hupfeld
http://www.nexthost.com.au/services.php
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Damian Hupfeld
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| Posted: 01/16/2005, 5:35 AM |
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For the USER link just use the following:
http://www.howardrecruitment.com.au/alist.php
To see MORE of the workings and the different tables involved use
http://www.howardrecruitment.com.au/news_list.php
Any help on the email issues really would be awesome.
Damian
"Damian Hupfeld" <damian.hupfeld@itng.com.au> wrote in message
news:csd7hl$t30$1@news.codecharge.com...
>3 part question - any help for any part will be appreciated - and I'm sure
>that the solution would be useful to many of you - for those of you
>developing for customers you may find this project to be quite useful
>(saleable?).
>
> Part 1.
>
> I am creating a bit of a portal that allows a customer of mine to logon
> and create a HTML newsletter. They can have guest authors provide content
> for the newsletter etc. They can choose a THEME from a drop down list.
> Once they are happy they click the publish tick box and the page is
> visible on the website.
>
> They want to email this to their newsletter subscribers.
>
> First step was to get the page so that the included styles would display
> correctly. I found that copying the page an pasting into Outlook or
> Outlook Express would not retain the links to the external CSS file so all
> my pretty formatting was removed. I found that INTERNAL CSS would work
> from Outlook Express - and sometimes from Outlook.
>
> Anyone worked out how to create code to send the entire OUTPUT page to an
> email address from within the project - could have a button that is only
> visible to a logged in user with the rights to SEND the email?
>
> Part 2.
>
> If I collect the Subscribers names on the website in my DB can I then
> increase the functionality of the above to allow me to send it to ALL my
> subscribers - probably in the BCC field.
>
> Part 3.
>
> Would be to do to extend this functionality so that it would send the
> email to the whole subscriber list - who had chosen HTML formatting in
> their preferences. I would then set up a very similar page without all the
> HTML for the TEXT subscribers.
>
>
> If anyone wants to sample it - please be sensible about what you post.
> Also its very much in early stages of development. Comments are still
> appreciated. Login is codecharge/forum
>
> The links are-
> management
> http://www.howardrecruitment.com.au/news_list.php
>
> output
> http://www.howardrecruitment.com.au/news.php
>
>
>
> As an aside - if anyone can tell me how to get my Outlook to accept my
> Internal or External CSS styles when I do a copy and Paste - that would
> also be much appreciated.
>
> regards
> Damian Hupfeld
> http://www.nexthost.com.au/services.php
>
>
>
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Damian Hupfeld
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| Posted: 01/18/2005, 5:43 AM |
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All quiet on the western front... Is everyone still on holidays or maybe
no-one has any suggestions?
"Damian Hupfeld" <damian.hupfeld@itng.com.au> wrote in message
news:csdqil$88u$1@news.codecharge.com...
> For the USER link just use the following:
> http://www.howardrecruitment.com.au/alist.php
>
> To see MORE of the workings and the different tables involved use
> http://www.howardrecruitment.com.au/news_list.php
>
> Any help on the email issues really would be awesome.
>
> Damian
>
>
> "Damian Hupfeld" <damian.hupfeld@itng.com.au> wrote in message
>news:csd7hl$t30$1@news.codecharge.com...
>>3 part question - any help for any part will be appreciated - and I'm sure
>>that the solution would be useful to many of you - for those of you
>>developing for customers you may find this project to be quite useful
>>(saleable?).
>>
>> Part 1.
>>
>> I am creating a bit of a portal that allows a customer of mine to logon
>> and create a HTML newsletter. They can have guest authors provide content
>> for the newsletter etc. They can choose a THEME from a drop down list.
>> Once they are happy they click the publish tick box and the page is
>> visible on the website.
>>
>> They want to email this to their newsletter subscribers.
>>
>> First step was to get the page so that the included styles would display
>> correctly. I found that copying the page an pasting into Outlook or
>> Outlook Express would not retain the links to the external CSS file so
>> all my pretty formatting was removed. I found that INTERNAL CSS would
>> work from Outlook Express - and sometimes from Outlook.
>>
>> Anyone worked out how to create code to send the entire OUTPUT page to an
>> email address from within the project - could have a button that is only
>> visible to a logged in user with the rights to SEND the email?
>>
>> Part 2.
>>
>> If I collect the Subscribers names on the website in my DB can I then
>> increase the functionality of the above to allow me to send it to ALL my
>> subscribers - probably in the BCC field.
>>
>> Part 3.
>>
>> Would be to do to extend this functionality so that it would send the
>> email to the whole subscriber list - who had chosen HTML formatting in
>> their preferences. I would then set up a very similar page without all
>> the HTML for the TEXT subscribers.
>>
>>
>> If anyone wants to sample it - please be sensible about what you post.
>> Also its very much in early stages of development. Comments are still
>> appreciated. Login is codecharge/forum
>>
>> The links are-
>> management
>> http://www.howardrecruitment.com.au/news_list.php
>>
>> output
>> http://www.howardrecruitment.com.au/news.php
>>
>>
>>
>> As an aside - if anyone can tell me how to get my Outlook to accept my
>> Internal or External CSS styles when I do a copy and Paste - that would
>> also be much appreciated.
>>
>> regards
>> Damian Hupfeld
>> http://www.nexthost.com.au/services.php
>>
>>
>>
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whiterabbit
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| Posted: 01/19/2005, 6:26 AM |
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Hmm. I recommend not reinventing the wheel. For email marketing/newsletters, use a robust system designed for it. It will still read from your internal database, but takes care of many of the details you are describing and more. http://www.arialsoftware.com/ for example is what we selected after much review. Also BCCing is ugly. Especially for more than 10 recipients. And returned mail. Ugghhh. Not fun to receive after a campaign or mail out. Also, don't use Outlook to mail it. It will choke. Sorry to be a downer, but I found the money well spent as we have 50,000 subscribers. Cheers David
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Damian Hupfeld
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| Posted: 01/20/2005, 3:07 AM |
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Thanks for the feedback whiterabbit.
I probably wasnt clear enough in my original message - Its not just about
having a HTML newsletter. The newsletter will only contain the first 400
characters of the article to get you interested. Hopefully you will then
click the link to read the whole story. That way we can track the amount of
interest the story gets. The reader may also stay and search/read other
articles or other sections of the site.
We may in the future also allow them to comment on articles. Get more
involvement - more interest.
regards
Damian
"whiterabbit" <whiterabbit@forum.codecharge> wrote in message
news:541ee6e014c61d@news.codecharge.com...
> Hmm. I recommend not reinventing the wheel. For email
> marketing/newsletters,
> use a robust system designed for it. It will still read from your
> internal
> database, but takes care of many of the details you are describing and
> more.
> http://www.arialsoftware.com/ for example is what we selected after much
> review. Also BCCing is ugly. Especially for more than 10 recipients.
> And
> returned mail. Ugghhh. Not fun to receive after a campaign or mail out.
> Also, don't use Outlook to mail it. It will choke. Sorry to be a
> downer,
> but I found the money well spent as we have 50,000 subscribers. Cheers
> David
> ---------------------------------------
> Sent from YesSoftware forum
> http://forums.codecharge.com/
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