| Tom Muck 2006-02-12, 6:39 pm |
| > For my e-newsletter I would like executed by MailChimp, do I simply copy
all
> my CSS script and paste directly under the <BODY> tag in the HTML of the
> newsletter, HTML page itself?
> Can you verify that that is the correct method?
> (Oh! when it says "under the body tag" does that really mean, within the
> confines of: <BODY> </BODY> ??)
This is a better method for more reliability across different email clients,
although even that is not 100% reliable. Putting styles directly into the
tags (like <p style="color:white">, etc) is even more reliable, but still
not 100%.
If you put a <style> tag above the <body> (like you would on a web page)
then many web-based clients will either strip it out, ignore it, or it will
cause havoc with the HTML page showing the email.
> Finally, I was reading that you should always include a plain text
version of
> the newsletter. Does this simply mean I create a Notepad file in which I
paste
> all the text of the newsletter within? -- Also, do I submit that as a
separate
> file along with the full, HTML file to the service provider & they take
care of
> it from there? Is that how that aspect works?
Not familiar with MailChimp, but including a text version has to be done at
the source level by creating headers for a multipart message, text version,
and html version. Some services do it automatically for you. If not, it is
probably not possible using a particular service.
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Tom Muck
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