Email customization questions

11 Sep 2007, 20:25

#1

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Email customization questions

So I now know how to change the logo in the emails. (using the header.jpg image in emails)

A couple questions - how can I place the same image at the bottom of my emails as well as the top?

How do I change the color and font size of the text in the email?

TIA!

11 Sep 2007, 21:08

#2

chuckl

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Re: Email customization questions

All the email templates are in the same place, /emails folder, and are fairly intuitively named - email_template_welcome.html would be the template for the new customer welcome email, etc etc.

Adding a duplicate header image in the footer is the same as adding an image in any html doc, add an

<img src="email/header.jpg" alt="logo" />

in the footer section.

The template style sheets are all embedded at the top of the templates. Edit and change to your requirements.

12 Sep 2007, 13:56

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thecatinthetree

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Re: Email customization questions

how do I use the template override system here?

also, do I need to customize each email seperately?

thanks

13 Sep 2007, 00:56

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drbyte

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Re: Email customization questions

There are no "template overrides" for HTML emails at the present time.
Just edit the files in the /email folder directly.

If you want to edit more than one layout, you'll have to touch each file separately.

18 Sep 2007, 13:29

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thecatinthetree

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Re: Email customization questions

thanks!

06 Oct 2007, 15:18

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beth_katherine

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Re: Email customization questions

Chuckl:
All the email templates are in the same place, /emails folder, and are fairly intuitively named - email_template_welcome.html would be the template for the new customer welcome email, etc etc.

I'm sorry, I have hunted high and low for this folder but cannot find it. I''m using the current version of Zen-Cart.

Beth-Katherine

06 Oct 2007, 15:44

#7

chuckl

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Re: Email customization questions

Main folder of the site, the one with folders called admin, includes, editors, media, pub, docs, extras, images, and the one you are looking for, email

07 Oct 2007, 19:07

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beth_katherine

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Re: Email customization questions

Thank you, I found them after posting. :blush:

I do have a couple of questions though.

I've changed the header image for my newsletters once before and it all succeeded. Now I've installed the Newsletter module and I've lost my logo even though the image is still the changed one I made. Am I missing a file that needs to be changed?

On the footer which shows the copyright and Zen-cart link, I want to change this to refelct the true owner of the newsletter's copyright which is myself, how do I do this? I've change the main email template but now it's back to the default one. Where is this template I need to change?

Beth-Katherine
sorry getting old and forget stuff easily

08 Oct 2007, 10:05

#9

chuckl

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Re: Email customization questions

If by Newsletter module you mean the 'Newsletter Center' mod, the Readme file for that says

What is this mod not
-------------------------------
-this mod is not using Zen-Cart's default newsletter

The support thread is here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46427

If you mean the Newsletter Subscribe mod, which allows subscription without registration, I think it uses a template called 'email_newsletter_subscription.html'

18 Oct 2007, 04:51

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seasonsofautumn

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Re: Email customization questions

Beth-katherine:
Thank you, I found them after posting. :blush:

On the footer which shows the copyright and Zen-cart link, I want to change this to refelct the true owner of the newsletter's copyright which is myself, how do I do this? I've change the main email template but now it's back to the default one. Where is this template I need to change?

Beth-Katherine
sorry getting old and forget stuff easily

Beth-Katherine,

I was looking for an answer to remove the copyright in the emails too. Here's what I did:

Edit email/email_template_default.html

At the bottom, find "<div class="copyright">$EMAIL_FOOTER_COPYRIGHT</div>"
and copy "EMAIL_FOOTER_COPYRIGHT" to your clipboard. Omit the "$" sign.

In the developer's tool kit, paste "EMAIL_FOOTER_COPYRIGHT" in the very last box and choose Admin/Catalog from the dropdown menu. Click the search box to the right.

The screen should come up with several different files containing the information you want to change. The very first one is the one that needs to be edited (admin/includes/languages/english/email_extras.php). It will also show you what line to edit.

Hope this helps you!

Autumn

19 Oct 2007, 13:51

#11

beth_katherine

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Re: Email customization questions

seasonsofautumn:
Beth-Katherine,

I was looking for an answer to remove the copyright in the emails too. Here's what I did:

Edit email/email_template_default.html

At the bottom, find "<div class="copyright">$EMAIL_FOOTER_COPYRIGHT</div>"
and copy "EMAIL_FOOTER_COPYRIGHT" to your clipboard. Omit the "$" sign.

In the developer's tool kit, paste "EMAIL_FOOTER_COPYRIGHT" in the very last box and choose Admin/Catalog from the dropdown menu. Click the search box to the right.

The screen should come up with several different files containing the information you want to change. The very first one is the one that needs to be edited (admin/includes/languages/english/email_extras.php). It will also show you what line to edit.

Hope this helps you!

Autumn

Thank you so much Autumn, I found that spot but haven't mastered the ins and outs of how to search. Brilliant.

Beth-katherine