Interactive Emails

[qwercus]

Hi, I would really appreciate any advice on the subject of creating and sending
interactive (dynamic?) html emails (with pics and links to our website). I am
willing to either buy software or subscribe to an online program, and would
like to be able to design and send them myself. I have already tried a couple
of programs but now need one that is Mac compatable. Can you do this on
Dreamweaver because I haven't worked out how, or could anyone recomend any
program/ website?

Thanks very much in advance for any advice anyone can send my way...

[mikebikel]

oaktree,

you can author html emails in dreamweaver in the same way you make a regular
html page for a web site. the page will end up living on your web server along
with any graphics incorporated into the page which will then be referenced with
absolute links rather than site or document relative links.

that is, all images will reference
[url]http://www.yoursite.com/email/date/images/img.gif[/url]

in that way, once your html document is sent out into the world (and
physically divorced from your server) you document will still reference your
images by way of those absolute links.

that's the critical issue. otherwise you just build your page as you normally
would.

here's an example: [url]http://www.flybar.com/eComm/051214/index.html[/url]

you (delete the "%3CBR%3E%3CBR%3Eyou" shite from the end of the URL. this
forum software works wrong...)

can see from the URL that the email lives in a directory called 'eComm'. that
directory contains dated sub-directories. i always name my emails index.html

i don't believe you can incorporate javascript in emails because email clients
aren't built to deal with such code. security issues and all that.

you can deploy your email using constant contact which many of our clients
find works very well for them.

hope that helps.