Computer Technology: How to Code HTML Email Newsletters - part 2 - Software for creating HTML email

Software for creating HTML email

There are a lot of editors available you can use. Here are a few tools you can use to create HTML email and websites:

Codetch (WYSIWYG editor / free / Firefox extension)

Real-time HTML Editor (online)

PSPad (universal editor, alternative for UltraEdit / free)

Notepad++ (source code editor / free)

NVU (open source WYSIWYG editor / free)

Macromedia Dreamweaver (WYSIWYG editor / not free)

For uploading your files you can use FileZilla.

Don’t use Microsoft Word to create HTML pages or HTML email

The reason is Word will write a whole lot of garbage when you create HTML pages with it. For example, I created a HTML page in Word and only put this line of text in it: “Don’t use Word to create HTML files”. Then I saved it as a HTML file. Show/Hide the HTML that Word 2003 created.

<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"

xmlns:w=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word”

xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40″>



<head>

<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=”text/html; charset=windows-1252″>

<meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>

<meta name=Generator content=”Microsoft Word 11″>

<meta name=Originator content=”Microsoft Word 11″>

<link rel=File-List href=”Don_files/filelist.xml”>

<title>Don’t use Word to create HTML files</title>

<!–[if gte mso 9]><xml>

 <w:WordDocument>

 <w:GrammarState>Clean</w:GrammarState>

 <w:PunctuationKerning/>

 <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>

 <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>

 <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>

 <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>

 <w:Compatibility>

 <w:BreakWrappedTables/>

 <w:SnapToGridInCell/>

 <w:WrapTextWithPunct/>

 <w:UseAsianBreakRules/>

 <w:DontGrowAutofit/>

 </w:Compatibility>

 <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel>

 </w:WordDocument>

</xml><![endif]–><!–[if gte mso 9]><xml>

 <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=”false” LatentStyleCount=”156″>

 </w:LatentStyles>

</xml><![endif]–>

<style>

<!–

 /* Style Definitions */

 p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal

 {mso-style-parent:”";

 margin:0in;

 margin-bottom:.0001pt;

 mso-pagination:widow-orphan;

 font-size:12.0pt;

 font-family:”Times New Roman”;

 mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;}

@page Section1

 {size:8.5in 11.0in;

 margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;

 mso-header-margin:.5in;

 mso-footer-margin:.5in;

 mso-paper-source:0;}

div.Section1

 {page:Section1;}

–>

</style>

<!–[if gte mso 10]>

<style>

 /* Style Definitions */

 table.MsoNormalTable

 {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”;

 mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;

 mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;

 mso-style-noshow:yes;

 mso-style-parent:”";

 mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;

 mso-para-margin:0in;

 mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;

 mso-pagination:widow-orphan;

 font-size:10.0pt;

 font-family:”Times New Roman”;

 mso-ansi-language:#0400;

 mso-fareast-language:#0400;

 mso-bidi-language:#0400;}

</style>

<![endif]–>

</head>



<body lang=EN-US style=’tab-interval:.5in’>



<div class=Section1>



<p class=MsoNormal>Don’t use Word to create HTML files.</p>



</div>



</body>

</html>

Other versions of Word also create garbage. But all you need is:

<p>Don't use Word to create HTML files</p>

Don’t copy/paste from Microsoft Word

Word uses a different kind of formatting of the text than for example Notepad, Notepad++, PSPad and Dreamweaver. These programs all work in text mode without formatting.

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