In this video we will start sending our newsletters as HTML.

Change send method from Plain to HTML

First let's just change the send method from plain text to HTML and see what happens.

• Go to "Configuration => Web services => Newsletters"
• Click "edit newsletter category" for "Easy News"
• Scroll down to the "Emails Settings" section, and choose the email format "HTML"
• (Save)

Now, let's go home, and click on "Amazing Newsletter". I'm going to click the "Newsletter" tab and send another test.

OH NO! NOTHING HAPPENED! Calm down, we're almost ready. :)
The only noticeable difference is that the links have now moved to the very bottom, even below the unsubscribe text. It doesn't look much different, so, how do we know we are sending HTML instead of plain text?

I'll show you. I'm going to go back and edit the "Easy News" newsletter category.

• Go to "Configuration => Web services => Newsletters"
• Click "edit newsletter category" for "Easy News"
• Scroll down to the "HTML to text conversion" section, and choose "Display hyperlinks inline with the text"
• (Save)

Now, if we send another test newsletter, we see that there is absolutely no difference. That's because the "HTML to text conversion" setting only affects plain text newsletters, and we are now sending HTML newsletters.

The next video will walk through the rest of the steps necessary to send emails as HTML.