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Johnvbla posted on "Accessibility - templates - and all" in Email design & coding

Johnvbla — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:07:32 +1000

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere - I did search here and the FAQs, honest!

Do the templates satisfy whatever the current standards are for "accessibility"? I am thinking of visually impaired recipients, mainly, who may be using JAWS or other screen readers.

How can I test my emails for this? (other than getting my own copy of JAWS, something which I did do, long ago in another life). Perhaps the Email Testing product could be enhanced to provide such tests? I know I could more easily check the website version of the email, but for all sorts of reasons - including inline css - the emails sent and the website copy are not the same.

Any help gratefully received, thanks.

manuelp posted on "Passing Variables to Webversion" in Email design & coding

manuelp — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:11:14 +1000

I was wondering if there was a way to pass the data (variables), that have already been populated in the email, to the webversion (so that their name, custom variables and etc would show).
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Ex:

In the email:

"Hi Bob.."

In the webversion:

"Hi.."

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I want the variable data to show in the webversion as well.

boltyboy posted on "Moving subscribers between clients" in Troubleshooting

boltyboy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:15:42 +1000

Dave--thanks. I actually already did the import. I identified the original group by the date of the first import, so now I have all my emails segmented in (actually 3) groups, and now know how to add more.

My question is that about 100 were dupes (e.g. had been in both lists). I think from looking at a couple that the new import (with the added custom column) overwrote the old record, which actually i think had more data (e.g. title, organization) in it. Is that how it works? And if so is there any way of preventing that?

This isn't a huge deal, but would be nice to know how CM deals with dupes, as it doesnt seem to do a "merge"

travisbell posted on "Is this suitable for email invitations?" in General chat

travisbell — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:00:07 +1000

To add to Mat's comment, we had a user a little while ago who sent their wedding invite's out through Campaign Monitor which was ok. It was actually a pretty innovative way of using CM.

Put it this way, if someone they sent an invite to marked the email as spam, we should probably assume they didn't want to go ;-)

Dave posted on "Moving subscribers between clients" in Troubleshooting

Dave — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:58:06 +1000

Boltyboy, there's one other option you can try that's much easier. Just head into that list, click on the blue "Edit List" button and then change the client for that list to the one you'd prefer it to be under. Done!

Then, just select both lists as recipients when sending the campaign and we'll remove duplicates for you automatically.

travisbell posted on "Subscribing via web form (posting to 2 different locations)" in Troubleshooting

travisbell — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:56:08 +1000

Hey andyw,

Have you taken a look at this post? Step 2 specifically...

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/arc … _from.html

It outlines a way to post to db using a header request. It should allow you to do what you're looking for.

travisbell posted on "Moving subscribers between clients" in Troubleshooting

travisbell — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:53:31 +1000

Yup. If you export that list, add a new column (for the new custom field) when you re-import that list, Campaign Monitor is smart enough to just insert the new custom field for all the records. It will otherwise, look at the rest of the columns as duplicates and be ignored. Nice and easy right? ;)

boltyboy posted on "Moving subscribers between clients" in Troubleshooting

boltyboy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:26:52 +1000

OK, So lets say I export one list, add a custom field and reimport to the other one--I can then set them up as a segment.

But what about the ones already in the list I'm adding to. How do I give them a custom field. Can I add one to the entire list?

Mathew posted on "Moving subscribers between clients" in Troubleshooting

Mathew — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:40:52 +1000

There isn't another way I'm afraid, but exporting and importing should only take you a couple of minutes - make sure you have a custom field or some way of identifying the different types of subscribers, and you'll be set.

boltyboy posted on "Moving subscribers between clients" in Troubleshooting

boltyboy — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:13:21 +1000

I've screwed up. I am using CM for my own purposes not for a client, but have created 2 different clients for two different segments of my business. But usually I want to send them the same thing. At the moment I have to create the campaign all over again

What I SHOULD have done is imported them all to one "client" subscriber list and created different segments. But as it stands I have two different subscribers lists and I want to take one and make it a separate segment in the other.

Other than exporting it to excel and reimporting it, is there an easy way to do this?

Mathew posted on "Campaign monitor & Salesforce" in General chat

Mathew — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:07:57 +1000

We don't have any code for this no - you could theoretically use the APIs of both products to do that, and we've heard of others setting this up.

Mathew posted on "Referencing MB Hosted Images" in Email design & coding

Mathew — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:07:00 +1000

Glad you worked it out J.L - it has always been import by zip file with MailBuild. The images are always stored on our servers once you import the template unless you use the mb_dontimportimage attribute

http://www.mailbuild.com/blog/2007/06/t … g_and.html

stig posted on "Very nooby design question" in Email design & coding

stig — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:42:15 +1000

There's severaly tools to make make animations, but here's a free online tool.

Just make sure all the logos are placed in equal sized images before you upload them.

As for adding it to your HTML template, it's just like adding any image.

I'm not familiar with your CRM, but this is a user forum for Campagin Monitor. You'll probably be able to export your email list from the CRM to use it (just make sure you have permission).

andyw posted on "Subscribing via web form (posting to 2 different locations)" in Troubleshooting

andyw — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:23:31 +1000

hello,

I have a form, this form will go to a 2 different locations, one will go to cm and another will go to a php file to send to user/website admin to notify that there's a new subscriber. The problem i have is how to post this into 2 different locations? Before this I have successfully post it into two different locations (to CM using GET method, but it's apparently not supporting anymore now). And now i'm using XMLHttpRequest to post to CM using post method but still it's not working, it says : "uncaught exveption : permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open".

What am i supposed to do to get this thing properly done?

Please help, thanks

Moniquinin posted on "Very nooby design question" in Email design & coding

Moniquinin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:57:23 +1000

Not sure I want to display the four logos side-by-side, but an animated gif sounds like a great idea. Any suggestions on how I do that? And can I easily incorporate an animated giff into an HTML template?

My company uses Goldmine as their CRM database and I am hoping it has a function in which I can easily import the tamplate for the sales guys in it. I've got Dreamweaver to try to create the template, but I haven't really ever used it, so I'm noob if ever there was one!