When we made the quiet jump from iContact to MailChimp a couple of weeks ago, we tested the “look and feel” in MailChimp and sought out a design that would, as much as possible, emulate the model we had been using for years in iContact with the hopes that the jump would be so seamless that few, if anyone, would even know that we changed email service providers. But last week, a very much-appreciated Brigada participant forwarded us her copy and it looked like a royal MESS. We were so embarrassed. The weird thing is — viewing the version that WE received in our OWN email clients is a completely different experience. It looks PERFECT. Would you help us please? If your Brigada is a mixed-up mess, please let us know in a comment following the web version of this item, and, if you’re savvy about email protocol or if you speak MailChimp, would you please help us diagnose the difficulty? Thanks a million. We meant well, honest. : ) (And, thanks Holly.)
Thanks for asking. The new version came across perfectly both both in my Hotmail account and my SHARE Outlook account. Thanks for your good work…you are a blessing to countless faith workers.
Blessings.
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Doug, Thanks for your service and ministry. I had noticed a subtle improvement in my VERY old email client, and see more improvements now that you’ve drawn the change to my attention. God bless you!
Comes through perfectly on gmail.
Today’s version is too wide for my screen, at least in items 1 and 2. I have to keep adjusting my screen left to right and back to read the items. I do not like such wide emails, even those in this edition that still fits into the screen, but is too wide for a normal page.
I finally got down toward the end of the page, and found anything after item 12 had been clipped out, and I had to click on that message to get the whole message in another screen.
Only two images showed up on this newsletter via gmail.
On Gmail, the text stretches wider than the screen–it does not wrap to the screen width. There is a wide left hand margin and lots of white space above and below articles and links. The heading text is the same size as the body text. The table of contents and items 1 and 2 are in a grey box, while the rest of the items are indented and on plain white background. Only 3 graphics showing: logo, item 6, and item 11.
I love the new format – it works just fine (I use Outlook 2016). My ministry uses Mail chimp and we find that the many browsers that people use and the older versions of Outlook cause problems in our Mail chimp email. We have “chatted” with a Mail chimp technical support person to try to solve our specific problems so please reach out to them. Hope these tips help.
Not looking good. The text is there, all in the same small format, no graphics at all. I use Windows live mail
About the new page layout you’re using – in my yahoo! email, the text is too wide for the page (using Safari browser) so I have to keep adjusting the bar at the bottom to complete reading each line or paragraph. That’s kind of annoying!
I have been a brigade participant since you began…I cut and send appropriate things from Brigada to people throughout my organization (21 countries) . Since the Mailchimp switch I can no longer copy or cut excerpts from your newsletter… its frustrating and takes time to retype and not have active links. Thanks for looking into this…
My copy is not a “mess”, but it seems not as easy to read. Perhaps it just takes getting used to.
This week’s version (Nov. 17) in my gmail account is perfect!!!!! Somebody got the bugs out, at least on my screen.
Finally! So glad to hear it, Millard. We’ve been trying to resolve things since we quietly made the jump from iContact to MailChimp about 3 weeks ago. Thanks for the feedback!