Still no server access, but the email blast and its authoring tool are coming along well. I’ve spent less time on Codecademy this week than I’d've liked, but that’s because the authoring tool was completed this week. I haven’t put it online yet, but it allows the Lantern’s editors to choose between a few different formats for the top story of the page.
The worst bug I encountered this week was a lone, unclosed [
The authoring tool is set up to take the email blast template, but I'm waiting for final approval from the Lantern's editors, my supervisors, and myself before I throw the email template's HTML into the variables of the JavaScript powering the authoring tool. Right now, all it does is generate test code:
From: "The Lantern"
To: <%to%>
Subject:
X-BulkMail-Envelope-From:
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_foo"
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--Boundary_foo
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
open table for ad
Image = http://f.benlk.com/edu/Lantern/email-files/ad-728.jpg
Link = http://www.thelantern.com/advertise-with-the-lantern
close table for ad
email table top
button bar tr
lantern header tr
topstory tr opening HTML
Text-only top story:
Headline:
Link:
Blurb: undefined
topstory tr closing HTML
Middle ad
Image = http://f.benlk.com/edu/Lantern/email-files/ad-468.jpg
Link = http://www.thelantern.com/advertise-with-the-lantern
Bottom table top
Bottom table left column top
#2-title,#2-url,#2-blurb
Story 2 title: “”
Story 2 url:
Story 2 blurb:
Bottom table left column bottom
Bottom table right column top
Bottom table right sidebar ad
Image = undefined
Link = undefined
Bottom table right column bottom
Bottom table bottom
Footer, including links to Lantern contacts and advertising
–Boundary_foo–
