Using xWD for an email subscription program

**cursor** · 31 March 2009, 07:41 PM

I just received this months edition of the Xara Outsider.

How can I use Xara Web Designer to create a similar series of quality, graphic emails for subscribers? Frankly, I'm not sure how this is done with any authoring product.

Looking forward to any experienced feedback.

**Soquili** · 31 March 2009, 07:57 PM

Curtis could you explain further? I haven't any idea what your question is referencing.

I have read the March Outsider. http://site.xara.com/news/march09/

**nickydude** · 31 March 2009, 08:05 PM

I think he wants to produce something like Xara Outsider (a html / graphical email) so he can email it to his subscribers.

**Soquili** · 31 March 2009, 08:10 PM

oh...that makes sense now.

Not seeing the forrest for the trees comes to mind at this moment.

**nickydude** · 31 March 2009, 08:21 PM

It would be a great addition to be able to produce graphical emails from XWD (or at least tell us how it's done

, it definitely has the potential.

**cursor** · 31 March 2009, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by Soquili

Not seeing the forrest for the trees comes to mind at this moment

Bill, could you explain further? I haven't any idea what your question is referencing.

Yes, I want to be able to create a series of progressive emails that boasts the professional look of the Xara Outsider newsletter. I'm assuming that this can be done with Xara Web Designer. Thanks.

**dogbertbh** · 31 March 2009, 09:11 PM

I was actually JUST having this conversation yesterday.

Sculptex made a utility for XX4 that took my html outputs and converted them for use with eBay and email by uploading the images to an ftp site I designated.

The naming convention of the folders for files has changed and I asked if it was an easy update to the XXFX program.

The issue I've run into in the past was the <position=absolute was messing with how it was laid out. That and all the stuff in the header

So now I design the mailer the way I want with Xara, have XXFX automatically upload the images and then redesign the page using DW, referencing the correct URL to show the images.

**steve.ledger** · 31 March 2009, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by cursor

Yes, I want to be able to create a series of progressive emails that boasts the professional look of the Xara Outsider newsletter. I'm assuming that this can be done with Xara Web Designer. Thanks.

Check the Outsider source - it appears to have been created by hand.

WD's div tags are a problem for richtext/HTML Email editors.
I use FOXMAIL and create html with Dreamweaver using tables.
The Foxmail template manager allows you to add the macro's once you load the Dreamweaver created page.

**Ladybug** · 17 August 2009, 07:00 AM

I've been struggling with this also. The problem I'm running into is WD not using absolute adresses for the graphics. Is there a setting in WD that would make that possible? Without absolute addresses to target, your images won't show up in your emails.

For instance the image address should be:
<img src="http://www.yourdomain.com/Newsletter/images/1.jpg" alt="" style="left: 156px; top: 564px; width: 446px; height: 47px;"/>

instead of :
<img class="xr_ap" src="index_htm_files/18.png" alt="" style="left: 156px; top: 564px; width: 446px; height: 47px;"/>

Please correct me if I'm wrong.