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May 09.2005

I’m new to the forum, and I came here searching for help on a project that I’m working on. I was asked to create a custom template for a client, but I haven’t really made one before. I have created an html document in Dreamweaver that looks the way the client requested, however, the client wants to be able to edit the template in Word and when I open the file in Word, it looks very different and messed up. Also, the client wants two editable charts that are 6 columns by 12 rows in the email newsletter. She wants to be able to copy and paste information into these. The way I have them set up, she would have to copy and paste each piece of information in the chart separately. How should I set it up so that she can copy the entire chart from another program into the newsletter and have every number line up in the correct spot?

If anyone has any advice at all about thw best way to set up a custom html email newsletter, what program to use, or how to set up the charts, please let me know. I’d really appreciate any help. I feel like I’ve gotten myself in over my head on this.

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@FangMay 09.2005 — Don't let the client edit the template; Word will destroy the template. Word is for documents that are printed not for webpages.

If the content of the table is basic text it maybe possible to use form input/texareas, but probably you will have to have a RTE and parse the data server-side.
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@JPnycMay 09.2005 — What Fang said. Word is probably the worst possible choice as an editor for html docs. All kinds of non-printing characters and formatting. Tell em to use notepad or to just let you edit it.
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@ajc100authorMay 09.2005 — Basically, what she has hired me to do is to make something that she can use and updte the text in it herself when she needs to. She said that she is also familiar with Front Page. Should I just create the html file and let her update the text in Front Page? That should work fine, shouldn't it?

Any advice on how to set up those charts/tables so that she can copy and paste the whole table in? I currently have it set up so that she would have to insert each piece of info rather than the whole table at once. The only way I know to do it is for her to convert the tables to pictures and then insert them each time she needs to make changes. Is there any other wy?
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@JPnycMay 09.2005 — Think it should, yes. Of course FrontRage will add it's own extensions and extraneous files. Don't know what that does to Dreamweaver when you go to open the file again. I don't use any WYSIWYG programs, so I have very little experience with em.

The only way I know of that would allow her to copy and paste a whole table in, would be a content management system of some kind. Maybe you could try the <pre> tags, but I think they're deprecated.
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@ajc100authorMay 09.2005 — I need to have text boxes in the newsletter that the client can paste text into. The text boxes i have now, stretch out when text is put in instead of wrapping the text. I need the text box to stay the same size and not stretch out when text is put in. How can I do that?
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@ffurnaiMay 09.2005 — What does the template code for the newsletter look like?

Can you post it? Is it a table layout?
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@ajc100authorMay 09.2005 — I'm doing this WYSIWYG. It's really the only way I know how. I don't know enough about hand coding to do it very well. I did figure out that when you paste in text, the text box gets longer like I want it to, not wider, but if you type in text it gets wider which I don't want it to. Also, the thing I'm struggling with most is figureing out how to let this client copy and entire table/chart or whatever of data into her template rather than a piece at a time.

I tried pasting the code but it's too long. I could paste half of it I suppose if I need to.
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@FangMay 10.2005 — Without hand coding this project will fail.

To drop the 'entire table/chart or whatever of data into her template' would require a [URL=http://www.fckeditor.net/]RTE[/URL] and server-side parsing of data.
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@ffurnaiMay 10.2005 — Fang, that is very cool. It might be just what I need for something I'm working on at work.

Thanks!
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@anandgJun 12.2005 — You can also try to create it with Dreamweaver templates. Then you put the content in a XML file. When you import the XML file into dreamweaver, a new document will be created based upon a template (defined in the XML file) and the content will be placed in the document.

A article about this can be read here:

http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.asp?p=31322&seqNum=2&rl=1

There are many options to get the content into a XML file. For example: create a simple form. Here you can enter your title, content, etc. Submit the form, via a simple script the content is written into a XML file.

Anand
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@anandgJun 14.2005 — For advice on how to create a HTML email, have a look at this article:

[U][B][URL=http://www.anandgraves.com/redirect/htmlemail.html]Create compatible HTML email[/URL][/B][/U]

It has a lot of tips and examples.

Anand
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