Creating Email Campaigns Using Custom HTML
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Last Updated:
September 4, 2008 11:39 AM
Express Email Marketing provides a number of professionally designed templates for your use. However, you can use any HTML-based design for a campaign mailing. When applying your own HTML design to an Express Email Marketing campaign, consider the following:
- Images or hyperlinks you included in the custom HTML must fully reference a URL. You cannot use a relative path or folder. For example, a reference to "myimage.gif" is not supported; rather, the reference should be presented as "http://www.best-widgets.com/images/myimage.gif".
- Your HTML must not contain any dynamic content based on a scripting language, such as JavaScript, JSP, ASP, PHP, or CGI.
- Some email clients do not recognize the <body> tag in HTML-formatted messages, which may affect the background color setting and other information described in the <body> tag of an HTML document. You can avoid this by placing a table around your HTML and setting a background color for the table cell.
- If you use color in the <body> tag, the Custom HTML text editor will not support it. If you want to add color to your text, place your text in a <table> tag.
To Create a Campaign Mailing Using Your Own HTML Design
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Express Email Marketing.
- On the Express Email Marketing page, click Open Express Email Marketing for the account you want to modify.
- Click Email Designer, and then click Create Email Campaign.
- Select your design of choice.
- From the Campaign Type list, select Custom HTML, and then click Next.
- Enter the HTML code or upload the HTML file into the Express Email Marketing application.
