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Monday, 22 February 2010

HTML Newsletters

An HTML Newsletter or Online newsletter is a newsletter sent by email to the person who subscribed to it. A properly designed newsletter will look a lot like a web page. The reason for that is because it is created by using HTML.
The main advantage of this type of newsletter is that it is much more stylish and prettier than a text newsletter that will look like a simple email, or a spam.

There are mainly two elements to such a newsletter. The first one is the webpage you have designed for your newsletter, and the second element is the process of sending that webpage via email to the subscribers.
You can either create the webpage yourself and use a distribution service to send it, or use a newsletter service that will do everything by using templates and then distribute the email for you to a certain number of people.
The path you chose to take will obviously depend on your HTML skills and the time you can allocate to do all the work. Using a specialized company to do that might sound expensive at first but you will probably save time and get better results in the end.

Creating an HTML newsletter can take time if you don’t really know anything about HTML but it is not something that hard to do. You will obviously have a huge advantage if you already know how to use webpage creation softwares like Dreamweaver or FrontPage for example.

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