e-mail newsletter

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Sandra

A better way to ask this question: My e-mail newsletter
is ready. It is a sub-web on my website. Now how do I send
it? I can't save the whole sub-web to a file to send in
Outlook. The option is greyed out. I can send a page
that is located on my computer, with all hyperlinks
pointing to the website, but then what about the FrontPage
Components that need to be on a website to function, such
as a form for Unsubscribing? Thanks.
 
-----Original Message-----
A better way to ask this question: My e-mail newsletter
is ready. It is a sub-web on my website. Now how do I
send it? I can't save the whole sub-web to a file to
send in Outlook. The option is grayed out. I can send
a page that is located on my computer, with all
hyperlinks pointing to the website, but then what about
the FrontPage Components that need to be on a website to
function, such as a form for Unsubscribing? Thanks.
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Try this:

1. Display your newsletter page in Internet Explorer.
2. Choose Send from the File menu, then Page By E-Mail.
3. Add the addresses you want.
4. Click Send.

Here are some gotchas:

o I have Outlook 2003 on my PC and the Web page comes
up OK in Outlook. If you have Outlook Express or
Netscape or something else, the same thing might not
work so well.
o In order to make your relative hyperlinks and image
locations work, IE (or maybe it's Outlook) will add
a <base href=""> tag that points to the URL folder
where your Web page resides. Unfortunately, this
doesn't seem to work for shared style sheets.
Therefore, you might need to change your
<LINK href="styles.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet>
tag to an absolute location.
o An e-mail window is a much different environment than
a browser window. For example, JavaScript will likely
be turned off for security reasons, HTML forms likely
won't work, and all hyperlinks will open in new
browser window.
o I'm concerned about your, "Form for Unsubscribing."
If this is just a hyperlink to a mailto link or a
page on some public mailing list site, fine. But if
this involves you keeping your own mailing list in
an Access database or whatever, and sending the message
to everyone in the database, that's another animal.
o There are sure to be more gotchas.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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Jim,
Thank you. That works well, EXCEPT
1. When I click on a hyperlink, it takes me to the page I
want, but I can't click "back", I have to close the page.
Any way to go back?

2. After entering info in the form for subscribe, I get a
page with this message: "User. Please report details to
this site's webmaster. Webmaster. Please see the server's
application event log for more details."

The form results are supposed to go to a file
called "form_results.csv" located in the Private folder,
and to my e-mail address.
 
Change the file name to form_results.txt and see if that helps.

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Sandra said:
Jim,
Thank you. That works well, EXCEPT
1. When I click on a hyperlink, it takes me to the page I
want, but I can't click "back", I have to close the page.
Any way to go back?
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No. When the browser has just started up and displayed only one page,
there is no previous page. Perhaps your page needs a Home link.
2. After entering info in the form for subscribe, I get a
page with this message: "User. Please report details to
this site's webmaster. Webmaster. Please see the server's
application event log for more details."

The form results are supposed to go to a file
called "form_results.csv" located in the Private folder,
and to my e-mail address.
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The form to subscribe can't be in the page you mail. You can only link
to a form elsewhere in your site.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|\----------------------------------------------------/|
|| Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out ||
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out ||
|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition ||
|| Troubleshooting Microsoft FrontPage 2002 ||
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming ||
|| (All from Microsoft Press) ||
|/----------------------------------------------------\|
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"Sandra" <[email protected]> wrote in

No. When the browser has just started up and displayed only one page,
there is no previous page. Perhaps your page needs a
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Home link.
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If I change the name of a page to "index.htm" does that
automatically make it a home page? No files show up in
navigation view.
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The form to subscribe can't be in the page you mail. You can only link
to a form elsewhere in your site.
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This form is an include page, which occurs on every page
in the newsletter. Does that work with e-mail? Also, I
discovered that this form, and another also, are not
working now even in the original file, without making the
page an e-mail, EVEN THOUGH THEY WORKED BEFORE. Any
ideas as to why they would stop working?
Thanks!
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