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Hi Guys,
              After reading through the forum's I have managed to get the cms sending html newsletter. I love this system
However my css skills are limited.

1) How do you include a image in a newsletter?
2) Is their any good formated templates in already existance that I could adapt?


Thanks

Hello.....

For sending html newsletters, you'll have to do alot of googling and alot of reading.  each client behaves differently. (particularly the web clients like hotmail, gmail, yahoo).  and embedding images is even more complex.  Especially if you don't want your emails winding up in the spam folder.

from my reading, all styles have to be inlined, like to get maximum efficiency.  You may also be able to create links back to an actual site for images, that may be the best method, as most web mail clients won't automatically cill those (I think).

As far as existing templates.... I haven't seen any.

Sort of a follow up to Calguy's post, doing a newsletter in HTML (with or without CSS) could be a waste. A lot of email progs have the option of turning HTML on or off. So you'd have to include an alternative in your newsletter for the viewers who don't allow HTML in their incoming email. It's not just the email prog (Outlook, Mac's Mail, Eudora, etc plus all the web mail progs), it's also how the user sets their preferences. A lot of people don't like downloading images in their email unless its something their expecting (friends vs spam), so they set their mail prefernces to HTML OFF ( or something like that)... it also avoids potential viruses on a WinTel machine

My suggestion is just create your newsletter in standard text format, and include links to your pages that are relevant to your newsletter.

Thanks for the replies guys. Its sounds like there is more problems involved with HTML email messages than it is worth.

Any Ideas on formating text messages? Can the client use a text editor somehow, like they use for creating their web pages?
When I use this editor to format text, the "text message" gets sent with html tags in but the text is not formatted when the messag is recieved