Re: cms or not cms

Hi Krisztina,

There are lots of solutions out there that can easily create webpages 
(such as Contribute) but I'm not sure how many will create a page that 
is properly formatted for e-newsletters, eg. a page that will render 
properly in different email clients such as outlook, outlook express, 
hotmail, yahoo..etc and also uses absolute references for images so that 
you're not sending out graphics which many mailservers will block.

To be honest, you'll need a database of some sort to manage the images 
at the very least. Leave image management to novices and you'll 
definitely end up with problems, eg. people trying to add a 500k jpeg to 
an e-newsletter.

Creating webpages is pretty simple, creating e-newsletters is a bit more 
tricky. Don't know of anything that does it quite right, we ended up 
adding a custom component to a cms that allowed us to create a 
newsletter and then export the code to be sent as an e-newsletter.

Cheers,
Maritn








Krisztina.Windhager-s4AhuFMQIBD48q9Kxb9HqgC/[email protected] wrote:

>
> hi,
>
> I am looking for a simple (and simple to use) CMS (or editor?) that 
> would generate stand-alone HTML pages that we can use for promotions 
> and e-mail newsletters (gallery-type pages to display offers).
>
> Basically, I would like to make it possible for the non-computing guys 
> to put together and view webpages by
> -choosing templates and number of products to display
> -uploading pictures and texts of their choice
>
> So the main point would be
> -the ease of use for the business guys - so that they have to deal 
> with the content only,
> -possibility to modify/add templates for the computer guys.
>
> I do not think we need something very complicated, as there is no 
> database behind these pages, and we do not want to create websites. 
>
> Any idea on what would be suitable for us?
>
> I would be greatful for any suggestion or advice.
>
> Krisztina
>
>
>
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