Sending New Product previews

I am wanting to send a preview email of the new products in my store but I can't find a faster way to do it other than inserting an image, then the link in an email.

Is there a way to copy the new items from zen cart and just pasting them into an email? I have looked in contributions for something and I have looked at the product notification option, but it does not show previews of the products.

Thanks for your help.

Constructing a newsletter will always be a bit of a manual task, because there are as many "newsletter" options as there are owners of a zenstore.

The way I do it is to use a dual screen (though you can split one screen) and have my browser pointing at my store on screen1, and a html editor open on the other screen.

I call up new products in my store (screen 1), then highlight/copy their zencart URL in the browser address bar, and then paste/create a link (either behind a bit of text or an image) in my newsletter html.

As my product codes (model numbers) are the same as my image names, I draw the path to the image simply by putting the model number .jpg . (This saves time, as I don't have to go trawling round the image file for the relevant image name to put into my <img src> tag).

When I've completed the layout of my newsletter, I COPY the html code between the <body> and </body> tags, and paste this into my htmlArea window for newsletters.

I also tend to have several TEMPLATES (designs) for newsletters, so all I have to do each month is replace the images names in the <img src> lines, and the <a href> to the product info. (And the general text of course)

Thank you for these tips. This is something like how I am doing it now, but I don't have the editor and cart in a split screen, just copying and pasting from one window to the next. I will have to see about this, it might save time.

I was hoping there was an option where I could just copy my new items page and then paste it.

Thank you for your reply!