Create an html newsletter on your Mac

I started using the mail page function last year and it's made my life infinitely easier.

Thanks Ivan!!! I've been wondering how to send an HTML email for awhile now, I was actually going to go down to the IT dept soon and ask them if they knew.

I should have figured it would be this easy on a Mac!

GREAT POST! I will put this feature to use very soon.

For italian people I wrote a similar post in my blog:
http://www.scattodesign.com/blog/come-inviare-unemail-html/

Keep em coming! =)

Hmmm ok, if inline css works best , two things.. Why do you have styles in the header? 
And what app or app settings can automate the styles into the tags instead of the header under the wysiwyg tools? 

I know photoshop makes slices... hmmmmm me goes to read some more * Amazing ! all of this "make your page standards compliant " and then Poof! I gotta make it all hack nyed now just to send an email ... the nerve ! , sigh webdesign and its many rules... Makes you kinda wish you could code in C instead

I've been wondering how to do this without using an applescript for some time.

^^
Hogskunk

thank you soooo much for this info!
apple is just so cool! it's much easier & simple than on a pc. (well what's new hey!)
well just wanted to say thanx for this article!

One small problem with this tutorial but I am sure there is a simple solution for this, but mail does not display background images used in your css. I suppose you can avoid them but it may ruin your design and limit what you can display. Then again, I'm a fan of less is more. :)

Hi, I just suscribed to this post, thanks for the tip but my problem is that my Safari version 1.3.2 does not allow me to "mail content on this page".
So do you have any solution?
Thx

Fidi

Create your newsletter in iWeb, choose "publish to folder", then follow steps 3 + 4 from there. Easy as pie.

Created a small page in iweb..... same basic attributes as web page. Created a new folder on my idisk and copied my images there. Then used the insert option in iweb and chose the images off my idisk. Publised and did the Mail contents of this page option. Mailed to myself and everything worked fine (small page worked in FF, Outlook etc.

When I forward, the images are not found...just those stupid blue-boxed questions marks. Way easy to do this....so I'd like this to work so I can use it with Mailman..... any ideas?

I'm not to sure how iWeb works but the images need to be absolute linking. Meaning it has to be http://www.xyz.com/images/sample.jpg not images/sample.jpg.

It's probably looking for the images on your drive, which it can't see. That is why the images are missing. You will need to host the images somewhere and give the path to them.

Calvin Lee | Creative Director
http://www.mayhemstudios.com

But maybe I'm not.
I created the newsletter in iWeb much like you did with dreamweaver...published to my .mac account. Created a new folder on my idisk and added the image files I was using.... this was all fine. Went to safari and brought up the newsletter .... mailed contents of page and then mailed it to myself to see how it looked....everything was great..... but when I tried to forward to myself, all the images disappeared. I'm hoping to use iweb, publish to a folder and upload the folder to my isp....also easily enough upload and images folder and files as well (iWeb doesn't store images this way, it stores the images as files in a folder associated with each page...... http://www......./thispage.html has a folder ...at http://www...../thispage/image.jpg (gif or whatever). I'm hoping to use the mass mailer on my isp to do the mailing for me and provide subscribe/unsubscribe) (not mail to 20 recipients at a time). I'm starting to think it might be better just to create a pdf file and imbed that.

But maybe I'm not.
I created the newsletter in iWeb much like you did with dreamweaver...published to my .mac account. Created a new folder on my idisk and added the image files I was using.... this was all fine. Went to safari and brought up the newsletter .... mailed contents of page and then mailed it to myself to see how it looked....everything was great..... but when I tried to forward to myself, all the images disappeared. I'm hoping to use iweb, publish to a folder and upload the folder to my isp....also easily enough upload and images folder and files as well (iWeb doesn't store images this way, it stores the images as files in a folder associated with each page...... http://www......./thispage.html has a folder ...at http://www...../thispage/image.jpg (gif or whatever). I'm hoping to use the mass mailer on my isp to do the mailing for me and provide subscribe/unsubscribe) (not mail to 20 recipients at a time). I'm starting to think it might be better just to create a pdf file and imbed that.

Yup, that was it! As soon as I uploaded to my "live" site and not .mac all the images slotted in initially and on forward....so success there, further when I do the mail contents, all the stroke and background images worked fine as well. Now, of course, I want to use the html code to upload to my bulk mailer (phplist). What I'm finding is after uploading the html, the images are requested and I upload those as well....Problem is, background images, stroke, outlines....etc. don't work.....so the newsletter/announcement looks a little flat. Does anyone know what safari does when it performs the "mail contents of this page" feature that maintains the page so well....I've tried saving the email contents as created by safaris" mail contents of this page" but this still won't work....Wouldn't it be nice if Safari actually created a pdf. of the webpage which is just imbedded? ANyon with anyideas,,,, since I really like creating the html file using iweb.

But I thought the whole idea was to be able to use dreamweaver/iweb to crete the html file?

Fine,

Have it your way..... I finally went ahead and coded the html myself and created the same thing I made with iWeb only with tables and no style sheets

now the only thing is getting this html announcement out there. I have been setting this website up for a charity and would like to periodically send out announcements..... I have installed PHPlist and what I would consider the most basic functions...... just sending the page in a message... requires something called PEAR with performs the "fetch the html and make it look like a webpage" request..... what the heck is a PEAR. and now do i have to learn to write PHP code?.... Does anyone know of a free mail utility (this charity has no budget) that works a little more easily.... I know its not just me, i've just read through 6 forum pages of people trying to get this function working!

i thought that using iweb for the purpose of creating a customised newsletter email would be great. unfortunately i realized that i am not able to generate html with absolute links in iweb and therefore cannot use it to make a newsletter email.

Is this correct? i hope not. Does anyone have a solution for this? Maybe there is some sort of setting that make iweb generate absolute links in its html... maybe theres some other software that can batch process all the relative links into absolute ones?

thanks! hope someone can help.

Mayhem Studio,
This is exactly what I need, although I need some suggestions to bypass or replace the Photoshop part, have Mac, is there any other freeware/shareware/mac apps that I can use instead of Photoshop?
I need to create an html image embedded mail that will have all original formatting if mailed to other accounts than Mac.
Please, please, please- I needed to have this done yesterday already!!!

Make sure all your images are linked absolute and not relative. Meaning it should have the complete url, http://www.xyz.com/images/image.jpg.

How do I do this?

Thanks

I am using Dreamweaver, not Powerpoint!!!!!

Ok, finely gotit to work

Does anybody know how to add a subject to the mailto: email?

It would be something like this:

"mailto:info@xyz.com?subject=I would like more information"

It worked on my mail and even showed the flash animation live in the message!
But no one else could view the page beside me....
What was wrong?

thanx

Is the flash a absolute linked?

MADNUG_CREATIVE

I was wandering how to make an easy step newsletter. I'd like to thank u very much for your helpful tip.

When I go to "mail contents of this page" I get a message telling me the Mail application was not found. I just bought the Mac a couple of months ago and haven't installed any other email application.
P.S.- I'm working on a Japanese Mac... makes things twice as complicated for me but the basic commands should be the same (located in the same places) as the English version.

I read in another forum to set the default email app. to some other software (any software), then reset it to Mail app. Presto! Weird, but it worked.

What a great and simple idea for mailing a webpage. But I am having one problem. I designed the webpage in Dreamweaver, and it views well on several browsers, including IE. When I "mail contents of this page" and open the email on my mac in safari-it looks perfect. When I open the email on a PC that uses IE, all of the CSS is removed, and it looks horrible. What am I doing wrong?

Hi People

I do all the process that you explain, is great, I can see perfect in my mac computer, but when I send to all the customers, the Outlook customer can not see the email correctly.
the images are not in the correct pleace, the text don't have format....

I see in other forum that this is a problem between conversions MAC/XP.

Do you know any solution?

Thanks

I use swedish as my language. When my recipiant resives it excludes some of the swedish letter such as å ä ö

help please