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Quick question: Is there an iContact email marketing software? Many thanks for any answer or 2. Second question.. IContact site DESIGN FOR ALL PLATFORMS/BROWSERS/PLUGINS.

After very extensive research, after building many different web pages and designs, I'm still stuck at a dead end..

I am trying to build an important site, it has to accessible by anyone, but there are way too many things to deal with and consider for iContact site design that will make it and everything cross-browser compatible..

The biggest problem is, I want to utilize many different things for content, but it seems the only way around problems is to just make 1 simple cheesey plain ol' looking web page so everyone can see it without problems..

I really don't want have to make 10 different pages and constantly update them all the time. That's just way to much work..

I'm really going to have 2 pages, 1 for flash, 1 for html, but still theres problems with both..

I love using all kinds of frames, iframes, active-x utilization, flash, java-script, cookies, and all the other stuff you can think of that can be used for iContact site navigation and all kinds of things like that..

Of course firewalls could be a problem as well as pop up blockers..

In my opinion, after using every browser out there, IE6 is the best as far as showing clean looking web pages as well as loading times with no errors/crashes..

Any thoughts of sniffers that will not be fooled, can detect everything and redirect appropriatly, or any ideas or solid ways of making sure the iContact site is fully-cross-everything-compatible without sacraficing content?.

Thanks...

Comments (4)

Ye, although you might want to make sure and wait for another member to confirm it as I am not confident. Better yet, why don't you give a call to the iContact guys because they can give you an answer better...

Comment #1

I've found the best way to deal with it all is to keep things as simple as possible for myself.. and to get a solid idea of who exactly I am targeting with my websites..

As far as accessable to anyone.... well... AOL users might not see the iContact site as you intend it, but they can see it and interact with it. As designers we can't unfortunately control what browsers the visitors to our sites use, but we can make sure that the sites at least are functional (if not always perfectly pretty) when they visit. I'd be more inclined to double check whether those with disabilities can use the site..

For guidelines in that area I reccomend these sites:.

Http://diveintoaccessibility.org/by_disability.html.

Http://valet.webthing.com/access/url.html.

Http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html.

As far as dealing with different screen resolutions... CSS becomes your friend, as it manages fluid layouts amazingly..

Few helpful places for fluid layouts and CSS:.

Http://glish.com/css/.

Http://www.saila.com/usage/layouts/nn4-layouts.shtml.

Here are a couple to have things get fancy:.

Http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo2.html.

I believe that the above sites take into account older browsers as well as Netscape and it's tempermental handling of CSS..

Other then those few things, all I can say is that sometimes we don't need all the fancy bells and whistles to make a iContact site that rocks... sometimes less is more..

Good luck, and hang in there...

Comment #2

IE6 is off standards....

And try to make the web page as simple as possible...

Comment #3

Thanks guys, appreciate the help..

I'll post a link to the iContact site once it's done and checked with every browser possible and see what all you guys can find "wrong" perhaps...lol.

I love using multiple frames, and to make it easy on myself as far as creating the code, I use Cute iContact site builder 4 to generate all of the HTML code, then I tweak it to my site's need's. (I don't actually use the software to make the site, just the initial html code).

I know this is kind of cheating, but the way that software has control over frames is really cool and seems to work with most of the more common browsers..

Anyway, I'll see how it works out..

Thanks again..

- Cheese..

Comment #4

Post deleted by EntImp.

Please don't use other threads to post new questions, especially ones you have already created new threads to. Please be patient and wait for someone to help you..

Please refer to some of the remarks I have made in your other threads...

Comment #5


This question was taken from a support group/message board and re-posted here so others can learn from it.