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HTML Email Editing Hell

by taliesin2165
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I am not a coder, but I have to manage email newsletters through Interspire Email Marketer. Problem is, editing content without blowing up the code or having new areas breaking the code formatting. Are there any WYSIWYG editors out there that can help me from HTML hell? I have Dreamweaver, but that doesn't even work correctly half the time. I bought Coda, but it's not a try WYSIWYG editor. I even tried to edit in the visual editor of WordPress with no luck. Is there anything out there for idiots like me?
#editing #email #hell #html #html editor
  • Profile picture of the author Jack Gordon
    Can't you just do it all inside of Interspire's templates & WYSIWYG editor?

    Why not use the system they intend you to use, especially if you are out of your depth?
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  • Profile picture of the author KateHunter
    Dreamweaver should work just fine for this purpose. What email template are you using? You can get nice email templates from theme forest. Some will let you edit the content in a browser in an easy way eg you can easily change colors and remove sections you don’t want. Some are easier to use than others. For most you will have to download the code then finish editing it in dreamweaver eg add your own text. Then copy that code into interspire. Sometimes you will have to work in code view, not design view, in dreamweaver to prevent stuffing up the code. For images you will have to upload the images to inspire (or your website), then paste the image url into dreamweaver. The templates often do not provide detailed documentation about changing every little detail. You will need to learn the basics of css and html to make html email templates. Email templates use inline css styling so you are going to see a lot of code in there.
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  • Profile picture of the author KateHunter
    Jack is spot on off course, I'm just not a fan of any of interspire's templates myself. But as Jack said just use their templates and editor. Leave one letter of the dummy text then write your own text, then delete that letter. This will prevent you losing the style for that text which sometimes happen if you delete all the text before writing your own. Easy peasy. Have fun.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben Holmes
    There's no way around the fact that you need to learn basic HTML. You can use all the WYSIWYG editors you want - but none of them will read your mind.

    I frequently jump into text mode, and make quick changes to the HTML that make the source look like I wanted it to look. You really don't need HTML fluency - just the knowledge of a dozen or so HTML elements will get you through just about anything.

    And a quick web search will show you what you don't know, or forgot. For example, I forgot the correct way to pad a <td> in a table, and just quickly searching for 'html table padding' got me the answer.

    There's no perfect editor out there - all they are is an aid, nothing more.
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