E-Newsletter

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HarveyK

I would like to publish our groups newsletter on our website and just email a
link to all subscribers. I thought I'd use (create) a DWT as the start page
with certain regions uneditable (navigation bar, logo and title) but make the
body a editable region so I (or another user) could upload each months
newsletter. Is there a way to set it up so that the previous months
newsletter gets auto archived? Or do I have to manually place past issues in
another folder before the current months letter is uploaded? Thank you for
any tips & suggestions.
 
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Steve Easton

You will have to "manually" archive previous issues.

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P@tty Ayers

I wouldn't move them around, though - I would just put them in some kind of
orderly subdirectories from the start, and just send out a different link
each month. That way they would pretty much archive themselves. You could
easily create an index page with a list of links to past emails..
 
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p c

1. Put all newslerters inthe smae folder and name them consistently. Eg.
2005Jan.html, 2005Feb.html
2. Create and index page in the same folder e.g. index.html. and list
each newsletter with the most recnt on the top.

If you want dispaly the latest on the index page. You can do it various
ways. Call the index in #2 archives. and always ovewrite the index.html
with a copy of the latest nltr.

Or if you can use scipt and back end database, you can write code to
display the latest based on creation date.

...PC
 
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Andrew Murray

simple way of "archiving" :

Name the current months page something like "current.html" and for each
previous issue re-name it by month eg

Jan05.html, Feb05.html etc.

Then update the current.html with the current month's news.
 
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HarveyK

Thank you ALL, Should NLetter index page use "_incl page
comp(current.html)"?This is what confuses me the most. Use DWT, Frames, CSS
or leave it plain html? I would like to keep it simple since another person
emails me the next months issue(word doc) to upload to the website.Thanks
again!!
 
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Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

Since it's only one page you've having to keep current there's really no
point in getting fancy with includes...just make it a regular page
current.htm or current_new.htm...whatever makes sense to you.

And, if you're easily confused like I am...stay away from frames unless your
site really really needs them for some reason.
 
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HarveyK

Thanks once again! I usually try to live by the "KISS" approach. I guess I
should apply that to web design also.(keep-it-simple-stupid).
 
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Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

definitely



HarveyK said:
Thanks once again! I usually try to live by the "KISS" approach. I guess I
should apply that to web design also.(keep-it-simple-stupid).
Click to expand...
 
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HarveyK

OK, I created newsletter folder with current_nltr.html, aug05.html &
ntlr_index.html. I did use "incl_pg"(current.html) in the body of index page.
A simple table layout for index page. Page displayed perfectly, but when I
click on link to aug05 I get 404 forbidden do not have permission. So I
entered "permission" in FP help & it directed me to
Tools>Server>etc.....where I must have mucked up something because all users
including me now get a login screen. Once again HELP? What did I do wrong? I
started a new thread on this (site-admin-anonymous access) which no ones
responding to. thanks again.
 
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Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

What's the URL to the problem page(s).

ps- don't muck with permissions unless you understand waz happenin' - I'm
not an expert in the server area, but it sounds like you've put aug05 in a
protected folder. What folder did you put that file in? A normal folder will
already have the correct permissions set on it.
 
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HarveyK

I think I solved the problem of access denied on aug05.html. I had the link
set to the folder not the specific file. Plus I also put current.html in the
same folder.That works fine now but some how I think I messed up thinking it
had to do with Anonymous Access! If I open IE & go to jbhsband.info I get
"Connect to jbhsband.info" login with User Name & Password prompt. Any body
out there know if Anonymous Access should be on or off for browser?
 
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Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

Yep that would do it.
I dont get any log in when I go to jbshband.info...everything seems normal
 
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