Creating Templates
ListManager comes with twenty pre-built templates. If you'd like to create and use your own templates, follow these steps.
Creating a Template
1. Click on the Content tab.
2. Click on New Content. You'll be taken to the Content: New Content: Essentials page.
3. Create your content as you normally would. See Creating Content for more details.
4. Click on the Advanced tab.
5. Select Yes for Is This a Template?
6. Click save.
7. To create a template from one of ListManager's pre-existing templates, select New Content from Template from the Contents page. This allows you to select a built-in template, and edit it according to your needs.
Creating a Fill-in-the-Blank Template
A fill-in-the-blank template helps users insert text into the right place to make their own content. To make fill-in-the-blank templates, you must insert a template field into your content. Template fields may be put anywhere in your message—the subject line, say, or the From: address. When a user selects to use the template, all they will need to do is to fill in the form with the requested information to generate new content.
1. Click on the Content tab.
2. Click on New Content. You'll be taken to the Content: New Content: Essentials page.
3. Create your content as you normally would. See Creating Content for more details.
4. Click on the Text or HTML tab.
5. Click insert field.
6. Click on the Template tab.
7. Select whether to Ask User For a Line, Paragraph or URL to an Image.
8. Enter a Description for the fill-in-the-blank template.
9. Enter a Default Value for the form.
10. Click on Insert. Your content will automatically be turned into a template.
11. Click save.
Editing a Template
Editing a template is much like creating new templates. To edit preexisting templates, follow these steps:
1. Click on the Content tab.
2. Select Templates. Select "Your Templates" or "Built-in Templates" from the drop-down menu.
3. Click on Go.
4. Click on the name of the template you'd like to edit.
5. Edit the template as desired.
6. Click save or save and test.
You don't need to know much about HTML to be able to edit ListManager's default templates. See the following URL for basic information about HTML:
http://www.lyris.com/products/listmanager/tools/html_basics.html
This page gives helpful information about color codes:
http://www.lyris.com/products/listmanager/tools/html_colorcodes.html
Sample Template Fields
If you want to create a template directly in your HTML editor, here are some examples of template fields:
Line:
##line "description" "optional instructions" "optional default value"##
Image:
##image "description" "optional instructions" "optional default value"##
Paragraph:
##paragraph "description" "optional instructions" "optional default value"##
Line asking for clickthrough tracking URL:
<a href="%%track "##line "Tracking URL" "Enter a URL to be tracked" "http://example.com"##"%%">click here</a>
More
1. Quick Start
2. Running ListManager for the First Time
3. Mailing Now!
7. Creating Templates
13. Viewing Reports
14. Creating List Administrators
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