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Articles Tagged "html"
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How To Code HTML Emails
How HTML email works, basic concepts, best practices, tips and tricks Want to learn how to code your own HTML email campaigns? You've probably googled all kinds of web pages that give you countless "what works, what doesn't" charts. They tell you which CSS definitions break, how Lotus Notes never…
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How can my recipients choose the version of the campaign they want to see?
When you're using the MailChimp provided signup forms, make sure you've enabled the option for your recipients to choose which version of your campaign they want to see. You'll see this option when you create a new list or under List > Settings > List Name and Defaults for existing…
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Top HTML Email Coding Mistakes
Top HTML Email Coding Mistakes New to email marketing? Watch for these common mistakes Over the years, we've noticed some common mistakes that people make with HTML email (ahem, okay we admit---we've made a few of them ourselves). So, we thought it would be good to share them with you...…
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Embed Code CSS Reference
In MailChimp, you can easily create a signup form with up to 30 custom fields. So in addition to "Email Address", you can also collect data like "first name" and "last name" and "company" and "title". Using CSS, you can customize the look and feel of your form. What is…
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How do I place my *|UNSUB|* (unsubscribe) Tag in my HTML version?
All campaigns must include our properly coded *|UNSUB|* tag in them so that we can insert a one-click unsubscribe URL into your message. There are absolutely no exceptions to this rule. Even if you're sending to just friends. Even if you are sending an internal message. Even if you're sending…
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HTML code for footer tags
If you are providing your own HTML, this is the code you would want to place in your footer for proper setting of your system tags: <p>*|LIST:DESCRIPTION|* <br /> <br /> <a href="*|UNSUB|*">Unsubscribe</a> *|EMAIL|* from this list.<br /> <br /> Our mailing address is:<br /> *|HTML:LIST_ADDRESS_HTML|*<br /> <br /> Copyright…
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Advanced customization of MailChimp’s signup forms
If you are one of our advanced users who wants to completely customize the code for all their MailChimp hosted signup forms and emails - you can! You'll need to know HTML in order to implement any of this. If you're not an HTML wiz, you might ask your web…
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Template Language: Working With Variant Selectors
Variant Selectors let you switch between any number of different content structures (blocks of HTML) within your email. This template example has a left-image module and a right-image module that can be selected via the drop-down menu, then repeated and selected again. In this particular template, it allows you to…
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Can I use Word or Publisher to create my content or my HTML?
In general, it's not a good idea to use Word or Publisher to create email campaigns. Below we'll show you what kind of messy code gets sent when Word is used to create a newsletter. When you use Word and paste it into a content editor, a lot of the…
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Can I create a table of contents for my newsletter? (anchors - the easy way!)
There are two ways to create a Table of Contents (using anchors) in your campaign, the easy way and the hard way. The Easy Way If you want your table of contents to just link to the titles or headers in your campaign, you can use our easy TOC merge…