Creating dynamic Web pages with Inxmail Professional
Dispatch only possible with authenticated domain: By the end of 2022, you must have authenticated your sending domain(s) using one of the three implementation scenarios in the Brand Identity Protection agent. After this date, dispatch will only possible using authenticated domains. Also, make sure that you use dynamic websites with authenticated domains only. For more information, see: Mailing dispatch and bounces.
You can create dynamic Web pages with Inxmail Professional. These Web pages are essentially used to communicate and interact with your recipients and interested parties. A typical example of a dynamic Web page is a subscription form that interested parties can use to subscribe to newsletters. At the same time, the Web pages generated with Inxmail Professional are prepared for the smooth transfer of data to and from Inxmail Professional. Thus, a subscription form can only fulfil its purpose if entry of the data by the interested party triggers corresponding follow-up processes in Inxmail Professional, such as automatic sending of welcome or confirmation mailings, for example.
Create dynamic Web pages
The Web pages that you can create with Inxmail Professional are based on templates delivered with Inxmail Professional. A total of seven templates are available for creating Web pages:
- Subscription
- Unsubscription
- Confirm unsubscribe
- Profile management
- Survey
- Last issue
- Email archive
The templates can be subdivided into three groups.
The Subscription, Cancel subscription and Confirm unsubscribe templates allow you to manage the subscription and unsubscription of interested parties and recipients.
The Profile management and Survey templates allow you to ask your recipients for data or information that they had not yet provided at the time of subscribing. You can use this data or information to supplement the profiles of your recipients and thereby carry out more targeted email marketing.
You use the Last issue and Email archive templates to provide interested parties and recipients with the possibility to read newsletters or mailings that they have not (yet) been able to read. Thus, every visitor to your website simply has to click to read the last newsletter to be sent or to browse in the newsletter archive. In this way, interested parties can become subscribers.
Knowledge of HTML and CSS
The templates for the Web pages exist in a ‘basic layout’ in Inxmail Professional. It is easy to make a series of adjustments directly in the Web page editor. At the same time, it is useful to have at least basic knowledge of HTML and CSS when adjusting the Web pages. This applies particularly if you would like to adjust the standard stylesheets or integrate your own stylesheets into the Web page.
A brief overview of how you can design dynamic Web pages with HTML and CSS can be found in the section Designing dynamic Web pages with HTML and CSS.
Technical aspects
The templates for the Web pages that you create with Inxmail Professional are based on so-called JavaServer Pages (JSP). Given the possibility to easily adjust the templates and the comprehensive integrated functionality, the templates are also called ‘dynamic Web pages’.
The Web page templates that are installed in your Inxmail Professional client can be found under Dynamic web pages (JSP) in the Template libraries tab (click the Global settings tab in the Templates agent).
Update of the templates
If Web page templates have been updated by Inxmail, you must click the (Change design of the template) button in the Web page editor for the update to take effect. A reinstallation (on your part) is not required.
Detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to update the Web page templates can be found in the section Updating Web page templates.
Be aware that you must likewise update the foreign-language Web page templates if you use foreign-language dynamic Web pages.