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Newsletter with TYPO3

Ivan Kartolo

Agenda

Who am I?

What is direct_mail?

What can direct_mail do?

How to template the newsletter

Future of direct_mail

Who am I?

Ivan Kartolo

Originating from Jakarta, Indonesia

Senior developer at dkd Internet Service GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany

TER Extensions

direct_mail

direct_mail_subscription

dkd_news2directmail

various TYPO3 Ext and projects

@kartolo

What is direct_mail?

direct_mail

Sending newsletter based on TYPO3 pages

Manage the recipient

Collecting click statistics

Multiple newsletter setup in one TYPO3 installation

What can direct_mail do?

Sending the newsletter

Wizard based

Customizable wizard

Automatically batch sending using the Scheduler

Recurring newsletter sending

Sending the newsletter

Sending the newsletter

Sending the newsletter

Sending the newsletter

Sending the newsletter

Managing recipient

tt_address and fe_users

various sources

SysFolder

static comma separated list

static tt_address or fe_users records

free SQL query

Managing recipient

Importing CSV !les

various settings (charsets, !ltering, etc.)

free mappable !elds

Managing recipient

Managing recipient

Click Statistics

opened HTML Newsletter (pixel bug)

clicked links

returned newsletter

Click Statistics

Multiple newsletter setup

Different TS template for different SysFolder

each SysFolder has its own direct_mail setup

Multiple newsletter setup

More Feature

TCEFORM.*.select_categories.PAGE_TSCONFIG_IDLIST = pidTCEFORM.*.module_sys_dmail_category.disabled = 0

Categorizing recipient and content

Free SQL query

Recurring sending

Sending the same content without clicking through the wizard

Automatically using Scheduler

Recurring sending

Templating

Templating

Table based layout

bullet list

Image Text

TYPO3 < 4.5 use “content (default)”

TYPO3 > 4.5 use “CSC” set renderMethod to “div”

TYPO3 4.7 default using div

Templating

CSS

minimize CSS to font styling

put <style> tag in body instead of head, or

inline CSS

Images

avoid embedding images (decrease mail size)

alt text

Templating

Some links:

http://emailology.com

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

http://webdesignerwall.com/general/make-your-html-email-5-times-more-mobile-friendly

Future of direct_mail

Future development

feature request, bugs, comments

=> forge.typo3.org/projects/extension-direct_mail=> Mailing list

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