Begin the Begin

Okay, so thanks for helping with this, I have already found and fixed two bugs. Anyway, instead of Lorem Ipsum, I will write some sort of guide to maybe how this should look. Ideally there is a photo above this with a light gray border around it, I think it’s 40 pixels, but anyway, somewhat thick.

Above that should be the title of the piece in somewhat large serif text. Ideally my fancy font, but some mail clients seem to block those so Georgia is the fall back. Then above that there’s a line with the name of the newsletter Friends of a Long Year, the issue, 001, and the date.

Then these grafs should be sans serif, 16pt ish text. There are also some hr tags in there to make little gray lines, but if those don’t work, I don’t care that much. here’s one as a test:

Then there is a footer with some basic info like who sent this, the archive, etc, none of these links work yet. Oh and an unsubscribe link, which also won’t work for you because I only added you to the testing database, not the live one. Anyway, if this looks even remotely close to this, I win!. Haha. It is such a pain in the ass to style HTML for email clients. I have to inject inline style tags to every single paragraph you see here just to get the fucking font right, like what century is it?

I totally understand why everyone just signs up for mailchimp. But I wanted to build something that didn’t track people and there’s just no way to do that with any of the commercial services I looked at. Which is sad. But there you go, surveillance capitalism at work. anyhoo. thanks again.