You can email members who have indicated they would like to receive a newsletter. The email can, of course, be the announcement of discounted pricing, news or any other topic that you think your members would be interested in. When you click on 'Send Newsletter', a page opens that lets you enter the subject and text of your email. If you want to send out HTML emails, you can design a newsletter in Dreamweaver or Frontpage and then copy and paste the HTML in the text area although it is important that you strip out unnecessary tags (see http://www.florentinedesign.com/articles/html_email_uness.htm for more information) Indicate whether the pasted text is HTML in the checkbox.

Other tips for sending mail:

• The 'First Name', 'Last Name', 'Email' and 'Unsubscribe' insert those values for each member which makes the email more personal and provides an opportunity for the member to unsubscribe.
• You can embed images in an HTML email by using full paths to the image location (http://www.yoursite.com/my_images/my_pic.jpg).