Frontpage

[Guest]

I have been having problems e-mailing multi-page newsletters (as an e-mail
message-not an attachment) with Publisher and was told to try Frontpage.
Before I buy it I want to make sure it is what I need. The software seems to
be more about website design and I am wondering if you are able to e-mail and
create a newsletter with Frontpage to send to multiple business clients. I
want it to come up as an e-mail message when the reader opens the e-mail.

Thanks!
Jennifer

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You are correct, Jennifer. FrontPage is a web design toolkit. You could
certainly use the HTML Editor to create your newsletter. But mailing it is
going to be problematic. How are you mailing your newsletter now?

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Kevin Spencer
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[Thomas A. Rowe]

FP will not help you with this.

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[Murray]

I recommend http://www.mailchimp.com for mass emailings.

It's reasonably priced and simple simon....

 

[Chuck Davis]

Jennifer,

Read and follow this article:
http://www.microsoftfrontpage.com/usingfp/newsletters/
I create and send html e-mail to over 1,300 several times a week using the
method described. After the message is sent, I remove all e-mail links and
place them on my web site at: http://www.anthemwebs.com/communitynews.htm

 

[Guest]

Yes I was concerned that e-mailing would be a problem. Currently, I am
trying to create newsletters to send (this is new to our company). I have
made a nice one in Publisher, however, my problem comes when I want to e-mail
it. I know publisher can e-mail attachments and send only one page as an
e-mail message. Is it possible with any microsoft program to be able to
create a newsletter and e-mail it so that it opens as a message and that it
can be more than one page? I have tried to minimize the information to a 1/2
page because the e-mail message only will show that much and it just isn't
working out!! Any suggestions? I did look at chimpmail and that may work.

 

[Murray]

Mailchimp will not help with CREATING the email - it will only help with
sending it.

Publisher is a terrible thing to do to an HTML page.

I would create the whole thing in FP by saving from Publisher to an HTML
file, and copying and pasting into a new page in FP. Make sure that all
links on the page are ABSOLUTE links to images and other files which you
have uploaded to your domain already, e.g.,

this -

<img src=''http://www.domain.com/images/dog.jpg''...

not this -

<img src="images/dog.jpg"...

Then copy the whole page's HTML markup, paste it into mailchimp, add your
email list, and you're off and running....

 

[Kevin Spencer]

An HTML document doesn't have pages. If that's your problem, you can rest
easy. It can't be done.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Neither a follower nor a lender be.

 

[Guest]

This looks like it would help, however I am assuming I still need to create
an HTML in Frontpage first? and will I be able to create a newsletter like
format without having to know how to code all of that information-I have only
used Frontpage once and I am not familiar with its features.
Thanks!
Jennifer

 

[Murray]

Yes - you would need some HTML authoring system to create your newsletter.
Even Word would work. Keep it simple, and not graphically sophisticated.
Any external links would need to be edited in FP to point to files that have
been uploaded to your domain already before sending the newsletter.