Create New Message
1. If you are using Internet Explorer 5 or above on Windows then your screen will look like the screen shot above, to further enhance your usability of this feature you can resize the editor viewable area by using the pop-up selections in this menu and click the "Resize Editor" button. This button will also cause the editor to be active or inactive based on the state of the editor status button.
* Note we have added the ability to disable the WYSIWYG editor, it may at first sight seem strange to offer this capability. Without going into too much detail, the editor uses the built in capabilities of Windows and Internet Explorer which inherently creates one main problem when dealing with importing of entire web pages or pasting in fully formatted web pages in that Internet Explorer will remove opening and closing HTML and in most cases BODY tags. The reason for this is that Internet Explorer is essentially displaying this content in editable format in an iframe which essentially has its own opening and closing HTML/BODY tags, Internet explorer recognizes a potential display issue in your page also having opening and closing tags so it "kindly" removes them for you. This is not a feature or restriction of our application is is merely the tradeoff received by utilizing the handy features of using an in-browser editor. How to get around this problem? the only reliable way it to disable the editor and import your web page in which will then be imported and give you the capability of storing it in its original form, thus preserving style sheet references and other important header elements.

2. The name of your email message/campaign - this is the internal name that the system stores to reference this message. It is not broadcast or emailed when the message is sent. It IS required

3. The email message subject, this is the actual subject line of your message - this will appear in the email message each recipient receives.

4. If you want to upload and assign an attachment to be sent with this email then add it here by clicking the upload button and locate your attachment on your local drive.

5. If you are using Internet Explorer 5 or above on Windows then your screen will look like the screen shot above in this WYSIWYG editor you will be able to quickly create and edit a HTML message visually. If you prefer to create your message in a more full featured editor such as Macromedia Dreamweaver then you can create your message in the editor and paste into this editor directly.

If you have enabled "Personalization variables in Messages" in your list setup then you can add the following variables to your HTML message. *Note if you do not have the above setting enabled in your list setup then the variables placed in your message will not be converted to the expected value.

Currently available variables for Email List Manager 2.1.1 are:

6. This window (only showed cropped above) is where you will enter the text version of your message if you wish to send a text only or Multi-Part message. It is best to always create a text message as some older email clients will not be able to view your HTML message

- Click the "Save Message" button once done (at the bottom of the page)

*Power Feature
If you have a web page already created that you would like to import directly into your message, use the box to the left, to import your web page into your HTML message. Type the complete url (i.e. www.yourdomain.com). You may have to experiment with this to see how effective it will be for your purposes.
* Note we have added the ability to disable the WYSIWYG editor when importing a full web page (suggested to maintain original content)