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September 2, 2009
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Using Dreamweaver to create email marketing piece (Newsletter)

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Is there a way to produce an email marketing piece using Dreamweaver? I created a design in Photoshop and placed it in my email temporarly, but I am not able to put the links, etc. in the graphic.

I would like to design a page in Dreamweaver and be able to put it into an email page so that people can see it as such and be able to click on the links within the email.

We would also like to do a newsletter in the same fashion so that we can email it directly in the email.

Thanks!

Heather

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    Correct answer Nadia-P

    Lots of tutorials on how to do this  :-)  You create a simple html page, but use inline styling instead of using a stylesheet:

    Start here:

    http://www.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters/

    http://www.sitepoint.com/article/designers-guide-html-email/

    http://www.sitepoint.com/article/principles-beautiful-html-email/

    Mail Chimp and iContact have some excellent templates and tutorials to help you get started with HTML email campaigns.

    http://www.mailchimp.com/resources/

    http://www.icontact.com/home/index2

    CampaignMonitor does not recommend the use of image maps because of poor support by Gmail:

    http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/2432/do-image-maps-work-in-html-ema/

    MailChip recommends being careful with image placement as many email clients will automatically block images when the mail is first loaded:

    http://www.mailchimp.com/articles/stupid-html-email-design-mistakes/

    Hope this helps  :-)

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    Striker Sumesh
    Participant
    December 13, 2013

    Hi All,

    I have a perfect tutorial on "How to create HTML Email Newsletter in Dreamweaver" posted on PepFry.com. It explains the traditional or the actual way of creating a HTML email newsletter.


    You can also find the responsive versions of the Email Newsletters as well:

    1. Fluid responsive html email newsletter
    2. Fixed responsive html email newsletter

    Hope that helps all newbies!

    Thanks!

    Sumesh M.S

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    ibit
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    May 16, 2012

    This is the best...I just had a call from a recruiter.

    I am new with Dreamweaver....but only because I need to get the experience practically, to use it, and I told her so in so many words.

    I have not had good luck with saying I am proficient when I am not, just to get the job, especially when the company expects perfection from the get-go.

    That aside, I told her I DO know Dreamweaver is not the only option for email marketing.

    I have access to all I need for a  Mail Chimp crash course, and told her so, letting her eknow I am willing to stay up several nights to learn with some skill...in an attempt to convince someone I am a good designer who works hard.

    I mean, take your pick. What do they NOT want you to know out there!

    This forum is awesomely helpful and very insitefull.

    I will continue to follow.

    J Cellini
    J Cellini
    Inspiring
    September 2, 2009

    Yes, you can use Dreamweaver to create an email marketing piece. The problem with Dreamweaver, though, is that it produces good clean html code. When you produce an email marketing piece, you are not creating it for web browsers but for email applications that are way behind in html and css technology and you have to write html code from the stone age with a lot of deprecated tags and inline css. Images need absolute paths.

    MailChimp can provide you with some very good advice on creating an email marketing piece. Check out its Email Marketing Articles and Guides page.

    Nadia-P
    Nadia-PCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    September 2, 2009

    Lots of tutorials on how to do this  :-)  You create a simple html page, but use inline styling instead of using a stylesheet:

    Start here:

    http://www.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters/

    http://www.sitepoint.com/article/designers-guide-html-email/

    http://www.sitepoint.com/article/principles-beautiful-html-email/

    Mail Chimp and iContact have some excellent templates and tutorials to help you get started with HTML email campaigns.

    http://www.mailchimp.com/resources/

    http://www.icontact.com/home/index2

    CampaignMonitor does not recommend the use of image maps because of poor support by Gmail:

    http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/2432/do-image-maps-work-in-html-ema/

    MailChip recommends being careful with image placement as many email clients will automatically block images when the mail is first loaded:

    http://www.mailchimp.com/articles/stupid-html-email-design-mistakes/

    Hope this helps  :-)

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    J Cellini
    J Cellini
    Inspiring
    September 2, 2009

    Nadia,

    I think this is the second time this happened--I stepped on your response. It was not intentional; you are just quicker than I am. As I was working on a response, you finished yours and posted it. Coincidentally, it was on the same topic.

    John

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    Stella1251
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    February 3, 2011

    I think this is the second time this happened--I stepped on your response. It was not intentional; you are just quicker than I am. As I was working on a response, you finished yours and posted it. Coincidentally, it was on the same topic.

    John,

    no need to apologise or worry about it - it's the nature of the forum  :-)  Would be good if there were a 'flag system' to let people know someone is on the case.

    Often times you'll see the timestamp of two posts being exactly the same.  I guess luck of the draw whose post comes in first  :-)  I've also answered a post believing I was the first one, only to find it was answered at exactly the same time or a few seconds later.

    Glad to see you participating in the forums by the way - haven't seen you around previously - by that I mean - via the NNTP forums what we all loved prior to this new forum changeover  :-)


    I would like to know the answer to this too. I read some of the articles from the sites/links Nadia directed us to, but I guess I still don't get how you get the code into the actual email. I see how it needs to be created and how the files need to be on a server, but how do you get them into the email? I'm guessing you don't copy & paste??  I've heard you need a 3rd party software or something, but I don't get it.

    Confused........ 

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