Content: New Content: HTML Message

Content: New/Edit Content: HTML Message

For a step-by-step guide to making content, see Content: New Content.

HTML Message

The HTML contents of your message. If you are using Windows Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, you may use the WYSIWYG HTML editor.

NOTE The HTML editor will garble HTML code it does not create. Do not use the editor to edit code it has not generated.

If you are including images in your HTML, make sure that the path for your images is the absolute path (the complete URL), not the relative path. For example, your HTML editor might make the path for a image to be something like /img/product.jpg. These should be changed to the absolute path: http://example.com/img/product.jpg.

Note that not all email clients will show the background of your message, so it may be best to use a white background for your HTML message.

If your content also includes a text message, your message will be sent out with both text and HTML. This kind of message is called multipart-alternative format, and it ensures that recipients who can read HTML see only HTML, but those who can't will see the plain text message.`

Additional message header and footer information may be added to the message if enabled in Utilities: List Settings: Web Created Content: Insert Headers and Footers.

Keep in mind that not everyone can read HTML, so it's a good idea to include a Text Message as well.

You may also include a link recipients may click to see the HTML message in a web browser. The tag %%url.mailing%% will merge a unique link for each recipient, which, when clicked, will take the recipient to a fully merged version of the message. Note that archiving must be enabled for the list.

Show Less

When visible, click to decrease by ten the number of lines visible in the message body.

Click to increase by ten the number of lines visible in the message body.

Disable HTML Editor

When visible, disables the HTML editor.

Enable HTML Editor

When visible, enables the HTML editor.

Import File

Click to import an HTML file into your HTML message body. Only HTML files may be imported.

The HTML editor will be disabled automatically

NOTE Do not import HTML if you plan to use the ListManager HTML editor. The ListManager HTML editor will likely break HTML generated by another editor.

Make sure your imported HTML uses the complete path, not relative paths to images. Example:

Wrong:

/img/lyris.gif

Right:

http://www.lyris.com/img/lyris.gif

Note: import file should not be used to attach documents to the message; use New Attachment.

Insert Field

Insert Field gives you the option to insert:

Mail merge fields (e.g., email address, first name)

Database fields

Email unsubscribe instructions

Autoresponder addresses

Template fields

Insert URL

Insert URL gives you the option to insert:

A single clickthrough tracking URL

Trackable text

Trackable image

A URL to confirm membership (used in a confirmation document)

Unsubscribe URL

Member profile URL

Survey URL

Referral form URL

The URL to a web page to insert (web fetch)

URL to media to play (e.g., a sound or a video clip) in the message

To personalize the message, click on Insert Field to add a mail merge tag.

Insert Condition

Insert Condition lets you insert conditional (dynamic) content, so that recipients who have a certain characteristic receive a certain message, and others another.

Track All URLs

When clicked, makes all URLs in the content clickthrough tracking URLs. All URLs may also be made tracking URLs automatically if Utilities: List Settings: Web Created Content: Automatically Track All URLs When Creating Content is set to yes.

Track All URLs will correctly encode URLs that contain these short mail merge tags: %%messageid%% and %%memberidchar%%.

Tools

The tools button lets you:

Convert text to HTML, HTML to text or create AOL-compliant HTML

Validate URLs, and check for scripts, including those AOL-incompatible

Reformat text to be word-wrapped, or to make the HTML section AOL-compliant

Learn about saving and testing content.

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