Yes, you would simply enter the full URL in your plain text message, and then use HTML as you’ve indicated above.

For links in plain text messages, as long as you include the full URLs (starting with the http:// part), most email programs will automatically make those clickable.

http://www.mysite.com/flower-seeds.html

and for html version:

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/flower-seeds.html">Flower Seeds</a>

Is that correct?

Also, if someone receives text only, do they have a clickable link?

Thanks

I’ve lately been receiving Aweber newsletters more often and some of them in text format. But I have to say, the formatting is less than beautiful. (I’m currently not a member of Aweber, but am considering moving my list from Shoppingcart to here - if I only wouldn’t have to have me clients re-opt in - but that’s another story.)

At any rate, I use a simple tool to make sure my text broadcasts and newsletters are formatted nicely with consistent right margins at 55-65 characters long - you might want to recommend it to your users who are doing this by hand - it’s at http://www.wordwrapmagic.com

It also takes out the Word double quotes that get changed to symbols when added to a text newsletter. I use it to format backwards also - taking an article from the formatted version, removing the hard returns automatically, and then being able to add it to a html page. Saves tons of time.

Enjoy!

Kathy

Based on previous expirience I thought that if creating both versions of email it will send 2 emails, and didn’t want to annoy my subscribers.

Well I was wrong as clearly shown.

Thanks guys.

Please contact our support team if your having problems using the templates.

I noticed that some templates do not work well with Gmail. Any suggestions there? Also, I wish there was a way to save a template that I have fiddled with and recall it.

Great stuff.
Thanks

I used to use CC and switched to AW for its added functionally. My one and only concern was why I had to go through the extra work of creating the plain text version myself.

Now I understand how this works, and will gladly take that extra step.

Simply inserting both an HTML and a plain text version of your message is all that’s required. Some services try to automatically take your HTML message and convert it to plain text. Unfortunately that often makes the plain text version look awful, so we don’t do that conversion for you. The 60-90 seconds that it takes to copy and paste your HTML version into the plain text area and reformat it slightly is well worth the few extra seconds to have control over how it ends up.

Email template & plain text usage video.