Talking Drupal #057 HTML Email

 




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)




Create E-mails content






Mime Mail




Enhances the abilities of Drupal to send HTML Emails




Allows for email attachments






Mandrill / Mail System




(service by Mailchimp)




Can replace the need for an SMTP server




Has statistics for e-mails sent




Can setup rules (within the Mandrill service) to
change e-mail attributes before sending








HTML E-mails From Outside of Drupal (List Signup Only)




Mailchimp




Allow Drupal visitors to signup for emails




List Management for users




E-commerce and webform integration




Service is easy to use




Allows RSS Auto Send




Use site content to build newsletters






Constant Contact




Allow Drupal Visitors to signup for emails




Limited List Management




Some E-commerce and Webform integration






Campaign Monitor




Great reseller program




Easy template generation






Zurb Foundation




Responsive templates
http://zurb.com/playground/responsive-email-templates








 
Module of the week

Table Field - https://www.drupal.org/project/tablefield


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.
Resources

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 Tester - http://www.mail-tester.com


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


Responsive Email Design from Campaign Monitor  -
http://bit.ly/rt-rdemailcm


Web Fonts in Email from Campaign Monitor -
http://bit.ly/rt-emailcm


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-scratch--webdesign-12770