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–