If you’re a web designer, you probably prefer to just code your own HTML emails, rather than use one of our built-in templates and WYSIWYG. We totally understand.
So we made it really easy to get your beautiful work loaded into MailChimp with our “Upload ZIP file” button.
Just take all your files, put them into a neat little folder (you can even organize your assets into as many sub-folders as you want), then compress everything into one .ZIP file.
Choose the “paste/Import HTML” tab when building a campaign, then click the “Import Zip file” button. Upload it to MailChimp, and we’ll extract everything and turn it into an HTML email. We’ll even host your images on our server (free), and prep it for delivery.
All you have to do now is hit the “Send” button.
[...] Now the fun part. This is where MailChimp differs from a lot of other RSS-to-email tools, because we can actually design the HTML email “wrap” around our RSS content. If you already have email templates setup and saved in MailChimp, you can simply re-use one of those templates. Or, you can create a new template from scratch, using our built-in layouts (if you’re an advanced coder, you can upload your own design as a ZIP file). [...]
I design webpages from a mac using iWeb (it’s user friendly like MailChimp). I am still learning to understand HTML… will the code from a page I’ve created in iWeb work?
Hi Darci, iWeb does some super-extra funky things that don’t translate well to email. We’ve been looking into it, and hope to add support later.
what is the standard size for a background image to send to you…..
Does this change at all the ability to use a style sheet for HTML emails?
I seem to remember reading in the past that they were generally a no-go for emails.
Thanks for the feature though. Looks great!
You can use embedded CSS, then click MailChimp’s “Inline CSS” button and we’ll make it work in HTML email.
http://blog.mailchimp.com/css-fixer-for-html-email/
I’m not sure if you can use a linked CSS file. MailChimp will go and grab images within subfolders, but I’m not sure about CSS files.
I know this is an old post, but in case anyone is still monitoring it, I would like to know whether MailChimp supports code from iWeb 09 yet. Anyone? Bueller?
Hey Guys, I am absolutely in love with this service. Quick Question, I really do want to stay in an all mac environment, I have iLife 09, iWeb 09, iWork 09, what is the best way for me to prepare documents using the iSuite and get them over to Mailchimp?
Cool, glad you like.
Why not just use this: http://blog.mailchimp.com/using-apple-mails-stationery-with-mailchimp/
or maybe the Equinux pack over here:
http://blog.mailchimp.com/resources/html_email_templates/
I tried doing this, but for some reason, it doesn’t display the images at all, not in the preview mode on the website, nor in the sended email. Tried doing this with the images in a subfolder and in the root of the document… no luck.
Is there something else i should be aware of?
I must mention i have a free account and the images are all saved for web using photoshop.
I am having the same issue as well. I uploaded images but only three of about ten images appeared.
can i also upload my own html design and then use it in the WYSIWIG editor. My client want’s a custom newsletter but wants to resuse the template without having to contact me all the time
Yes, but sort of in a different way. Create your HTML email template using our “email template language.” Upload that code into MailChimp and we’ll save it as an editable template for your client. While you’re at it, enter our HTML email design contest if you like professional wrestling belts.
Hi, I was wondering you know how you place in a link in the email header i.e. ‘Cant see this email correctly? Click Here’… Is there anyway to do this within MailChimp without having to load images/html to a server?
Hi Peter, it’s called the “archive” merge tag. Instructions here: http://eepurl.com/gYZv
I’ve found a website saying you could even customize a layout in Word, convert it to an html, zip the files, and upload it into the custom templates file. It seems like a great feature! I went through all the steps, and when I try and load the zip file it say it contains no information, or may be corrupted. I don’t know html – anything you can think of which might be the problem? If you have hints on which files *should* be included in the zip file, that could help too. Thanks a lot!
Sara – you can’t have any spaces in any file names of anything you upload.
Hello, I can’t seem to upload sucessfully my zip. I’m making my design and html directly in photoshop cs5 using slices, but every time I try to upload it says that the “The archive was empty or otherwise corrupt”
What I’m I doing wrong!!
Thanks in advance.
Try this:
I’m having trouble uploading my campaign content from a zip file.: http://eepurl.com/nMWr
If that doesn’t help, maybe our support team can help you.
After importing our html, Mailchimp has automatically appended its own “why did I get this?” footer to the bottom of the email. We’d like to use our own footer, but when we delete the one Mailchimp added, it reappears after a refresh. How can we enter our own footer info?
Hi Brett, we add footers to templates by default if we don’t see certain required tags:
1) The *|UNSUB|* tag adds an unsubscribe link, and
2) if you’re a free account user, we need to see a *|REWARDS|* tag, where we place a MailChimp badge.
In the past, we just threw an error message, but it confused a lot of non-tech-savvy users (“wha? how do I place tags?”). So we started adding that footer automatically.
Anyway, here’s a KB article on how to make it all go away:
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/why-am-i-getting-a-gray-bar-or-a-2nd-footer-that-i-cant-edit/
(the screenshot needs updating, but the info is the same)
Thanks for the prompt response!
so i was able to successfully upload my ZIP with my html file and all the image files. i designed the template in Dreamweaver, and used images from a /images subfolder.
i then ZIPped the files with the .html in the root foler and the images in the /images subfolder.
when i sent a test email, none of the images were displayed. i noticed that the src code for each of the images was changed to “http://img.mailchimp.com/404-FILENAME.png” where FILENAME represents the individual name of each file.
should i prepare the imag src in my code differently to upload a ZIP including my /images folder? or is there an easy way to change the code from the campaign builder to correctly link to my images?
thanks!
Did you get this issue resolved?
Oh happy days!
I uploaded my zip file into my campaign and it looks nothing like how my .htm file looks. My zip includes all the pics needed.