July 30, 2014
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Uses of Email
- Transaction/Service E-Mails - one email to the single person for a particular purpose. ie. Reset Password, Shipping Confirmation...
- Bulk Email - send to the group of people. ie. Newsletter, Forum subscriptions…
- User communication - personal contact or something like basecamp
- Impact the type of service and tools you will use
Getting Started With HTML EMails
- Drupal out of the box will only send plain text emails
- Need an SMTP server setup on your web server or use this:
- SMTP Authentication Support Module
Structure of HTML email
HTML E-Mails From Drupal (Creating and Sending)
- Simple News (Module)
- Mime Mail
- Mandrill / Mail System
- Mailchimp
- Constant Contact
- Campaign Monitor
Zurb Foundation - Responsive templates
Modules:
Simple News - https://www.drupal.org/project/simplenews
Mime Mail - https://www.drupal.org/project/mimemail
SMTP Authentication Support Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/smtp
Mandrill - https://www.drupal.org/project/mandrill
Mail System - https://www.drupal.org/project/mailsystem
Mailchimp - https://www.drupal.org/project/mailchimp
Constant Contact - https://www.drupal.org/project/constant_contact
Campiagn Monitor - https://www.drupal.org/project/campaignmonitor
Resources:
Mail Tester - http://www.mail-tester.com
Responsive Email Design from Campaign Monitor - http://bit.ly/rt-rdemailcm
Responsive Email from MailChimp - http://bit.ly/rt-rdemailmc
Typography in Email from MailChimp -http://bit.ly/rt-emailmc
Tutorial to Understand HTML Email (Hand crafted) - http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/build-an-html-email-template-from...
Module of the Week:
This module allows you to attach tabular data to a node in Drupal 6 or any entity in Drupal 7. The input form allows the user to specify the number of rows/columns and allows entry into each table cell using text fields. Tables can be defined globally or on a per-node/per-entity basis, so every node can have multiple tables of arbitrary size. Enter data by hand or by CSV upload. Table data can also be downloaded as CSV files by your users if you so choose. Tables are multi-value and revision capable.
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