Question : How to create HTML email newsletter within outlook? Add-in?

Hey,
Is there a add-in for MS outlook 2003 that you can use to create HTML email newsletters with? I want to be able to create a HTML email newsletter within outlook then send to a distribution list.

Currently I am building the newsletter in Macromedia Dreamweaver and using a web based program to send after I import the contact list. However this is very time consuming and I want to give the job to someone less technically savy that wont be able to use dreamweaver or this complicated web based software.

Any suggestions on the best way to do this?

Kind Regards
Smitch

Answer : How to create HTML email newsletter within outlook? Add-in?

If you're using Office 2007, the better way to do it would be to create a newsletter with Microsoft Word (since it's the "new" rendering engine for email when received by an Outlook 2007 user) and send it out using the mail merge function in Outlook.

You could also take html from Dreamweaver, if you like how the template is laid out there, and copy/paste that into an Outlook email (assuming you have Word set as your default html editor for Outlook).

The better way to manage subscribes/unsubscribes and get better feedback as to how your newsletter has performed, would be to use one of these services:

constantcontact.com
verticalresponse.com
strongmail.com
gotcorp.com (campaigner pro)

It shouldn't cost that much to broadcast through any of these vendors and the SAAS webware is easy to learn for less technically savvy users.