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ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-26-2016

Thank you for joining the community. You obviously see the temperament of the board lately. Do you have any information when some of the major issues we are complaining about will be addressed or not so we stop complaining and make other decisions. The first and foremost in many minds are the performance issues since your integration of systems has caused. I charge for my time. Your new system has caused my billable time to increase 18% in the last month. Although I love the extra income, my down stream customers don't. The small business person who does all of this now finds himself spending extra time doing what he used to do in far less time. Not withstanding all the program complaints, making us wait for screens to load is something you should be able to fix without a major rewrite. Thanks for the decision to have you join us, don't disappear. The planning team needs to get closer to the end user. I haven't felt that in 5 years.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-26-2016

It would be cool if you added that in your profile, so we would know who we are addressing. ......and if you and your staff spent a lot more time here interfacing with us.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-26-2016

With all due respect, no it doesn't help. We are aware of the change, even Capt Obvious can see that. Its the removal of the discreet navigation that folks are complaining about. Try going from page 6 to page 10 with "view more campaigns. Try working with 100 campaigns and going back to the beginning each time and having to start over. Its upsetting that the program people may not even realize what it is exactly your customers are having issues with.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-26-2016

Keeping a low profile ? Is SherrieS46 a CTCT employee? Shows you as a member who registered 4 years agowith 2 posts. Can we assume your part of the program team ?

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎03-22-2016

There is no synchronous notification available, the highest frequency you can set is once a day. See attachment:

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎02-20-2015

No change to different levels of permission in 8 years.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎12-06-2010

Scott, Outlook 2007 is historically crabby. It renders its HTML with the MS Word engine and not IE as previously done with OL 2003. You'll need to spend some time working through that and learning to code to the weakest link, which is usually OL 2007 For starters all your CSS needs to be inline, many of the form background options don't work. With OL 2007 its the KISS and TEST rule. Regards, Tony

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎10-20-2009

You need to use XHTML not HTML for Constant Contact tags to work.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎10-01-2009

You need to capture a screen grab of the video and include it has a graphic link. I have done this for clients many times and can tell you the click rate did increase a lot. Pay a lot of attention to the frame you grab and make it as compelling to open as possible. Even if the frame grab isn't the initial frame of the video.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-29-2009

Have you used the program yet?

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-25-2009

You can only point to your archive page from your site. Its hosted by Constant Contact. You only get a URL of the the page not the HTML. I'm sorry to say I don't currently have a live example, but the easiest way to see this "could" look like would be to go into your own account and click Emails > Archive > Create an Archive Homepage > Preview. This will present you with a base template provided by CC that you would be able to modify. Remember you can only link to this page.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-21-2009

Unless a "very" large majority of your contacts use Entourage I would say that its not a very good choice for your reference. You are experiencing one of the big challenges of creating an email campaign. I agree with the previous suggestions.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-16-2009

I would say "most" don't have background images.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-15-2009

Outlook 2007 use Word 2007 for its HTML rendering as opposed to past versions which used IE. Background image isn't supported in Word 2007. Here is a link to the MS site that explains this in more detail: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎09-14-2009

What particular differences are you seeing? Are you seeing them in a particular mail program such as Outlook or a web based system?

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-21-2009

Outlook 2007 has no support for CSS positioning. Ask your developer not to use CSS for that. Basically OL2007 is screwed. OL2006 used IE while the newer OL2007 uses the MS Word engine to display HTML. I'm not sure about your GMail issue though. The good news is that OL2007 presents a small footprint for the B2C audience. Here is a link to the Microsoft site where you can get the "Outlook HTML and CSS Validator." I must say I have not tried this at all. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0B764C08-0F86-431E-8BD5-EF0E9CE26A3A&displaylang=en

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-20-2009

Does it look good in other mail clients or services? i.e. Yahoo

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-18-2009

If you can't create first and go to pdf and html, here is another thought. Preview the newsletter in CC and select Print Version. Then use a program called "Screen Hunter" (google it) to capture the Newsletter to a JPG file. Bring that into word and then save as a PDF. The document gets a little fuzzy but over all is very acceptable to most.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎08-17-2009

Perhaps you should consider something that would allow you to output to both PDF for printing and then HTML to cut into CC for your newsletters. The first issue I can think of is how to address your image references. What do you mean the print quality is somewhat poor? What are you trying to print?

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎07-30-2009

Open your control panel then go to Contacts > Site Visitor Signup >Add a Signup Box to Your Website. Done deal.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎06-23-2009

Issues with Microsoft Outlook are well documented. There are even differences between versions of Outlook. If you send me an email I will forward you a document discussing some of the challenges of designing in Outlook.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎06-23-2009

That's a bit strange. You should not be seeing a difference between the preview mode ( I am assuming you are emailing the previews in addition to just looking at them, correct) Are you previewing them on the same email client that you then see a difference with after sending them? For the record what email clients are you using to view them in?

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎06-15-2009

Thank you for your detailed posting. The topic of OutLook has been discussed across the web for some time. For anyone interested in the limitations in Outlook 2007 here is a link. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx I have now stopped trying to develop decent HTML e-mails for outlook. I make a plain text version and put in a link "If you have trouble reading this click here" in the top of the e-mail. It saves me the trouble and my clients the development money. . I do most of my work for non corporate clients and find that 90% of people that sign up for email don't use their company accounts anyway. Whereas 55% of B2B clients use Outlook, far less under 15% of B2C do.

ChevyTalk_Tony · ‎06-09-2009

Not that I am aware of. This can easily be done by just creating a second master list and then deleting the smaller list from it. The new list does not count against your total email address count. When your done you can keep the list or simply delete it.

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