HTML Specials

On the left menu of your Admin Panel you will see a link labeled as "HTML Specials". If you click on this link you will be brought to a page that lists all HTML Offers existing in your database.

Adding an HTML Special

Adding an HTML special is not for the "novice" person or someone who does not know how to work with HTML coding. If that is your case, please skip this section or refer it to a person that knows HTML coding!

Once you have submitted your special you will see it displayed in the list of other HTML Specials that you have created and can determine how it will be displayed on the site, View, Edit or Delete the Special.

We recommend that you View the offer to make sure that it is correct. Once confirmed, you can make it live from the EDIT page and you can determine if you want to feature your special on your home page or now.

Html Offer Tips

If you are using an HTML offer that has been emailed to you or an offer that you created in FrontPage or Dreamweaver, you should not that you will not need a lot of the HTML tags that are put in when that offer was created. Follow these guidelines:

Remove the following from the beginning of your HTML page:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>

Remove from the end of your HTML page:

</body>
</html>

Remove the Meta Tag in its entirety. A Meta Tag generally looks like this:

<META name="description" content="Vacations Cruises at Discount Prices. Cruise deals and discount cruise vacations! Over 39 years of selling discount cruises. Discount Cruise deals on 7 night or longer cruises including last minute cruises.">
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="jonathan@myagency.com">
<META NAME="keywords" content="cheap cruises, discount cruises, cruise deals, last minute cruise deals, cruise deal cruises, best cruise deal, cheap cruise deal, cruise, cruise ship, luxury cruise, cruise line, cruise travel, cruise vacation, cruise package, honeymoon cruises, last minute cruise, cruise vacation package, cruise vacation, cruise travel tours, cruise vacations">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,follow">
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="index,follow">
<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="3">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright 2007 MyAgency.com. All Copyright and Trademark Rights Reserved.">
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">
<TITLE>MyAgency.com</TITLE>

Generally, following the Meta Tag you will see the following and should remove these:

</head>
<body>

If a Styles sheet is included in the HTML coding LEAVE IT or the page may not display or function as it should! Below is an example of style sheet coding:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.hollandamerica.com/styles.css">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
a:hover {color : #B1441E; text-decoration : underline;}
-->
</style>

Make sure that the width of the page does not exceed 600 Pixels. Generally all HTML offer pages begin with a table:

<table border="0" width="600">

and end with a table closing.

</table>

IMPORTANT: Many HTML coded email offers that come from suppliers, have links back to their web sites. It is important to remove those links, but to keep any associated images or text still in the coding.

Example Word Link:

<a target="Holland" alt="Holland America" href=http://www.hollandamerica.com>
View Holland America Offers!
</a>

Everything but the View Holland America Offers! should be removed

Example Image Link:

<a target="Holland" alt="Holland America" href="http://www.hollandamerica.com">
<img border="0" src="http://www.hollandamerica.com/images/logos/l_oceania.gif" width="265" height="49">
</a>

Everything except for the following should be removed.

<a target="Holland" alt="Holland America" href="http://www.hollandamerica.com">
<img border="0" src="http://www.hollandamerica.com/images/logos/l_oceania.gif" width="265" height="49">
</a>

Make sure your coding always contains the full URL paths, to avoid any broken images. Below are two examples.

CORRECT:

<img border="0" src="http://www.hollandamerica.com/images/logos/l_oceania.gif" width="265" height="49">

INCORRECT:

<img border="0" src="../images/logos/l_oceania.gif" width="265" height="49">

You can create your own Custom Offers using the Custom Offer tool. This option works well when you want to create an HTML looking page with images, itineraries, pricing, etc. that is exclusive to your agency and not an offer that can be found in Signature.

For those with knowledge of HTML coding; you can add special features like bullets, bold, font size, color and type, text links, etc., that give your offer even more appeal. With a little practice someone without HTML experience can learn to add HTML coding using your Admin's HTML Cheat Sheet!

The following screens take you through the process of adding a Custom Offer with some of these HTML features.

NOTE: This is a longer process for adding an offer to your site, but well worth the effort. Your admin navigation allows you to view your progress for creating the Custom Offer while allowing you to continue adding to it as you move forward.

We strongly recommend that you gather your images in advance including images of ships, itinerary maps and other images that you wish to associate with your offer and place them in a folder on your Desktop for easy access.

NOTE: That when you save your images we recommend the following format:

hollandship instead of Holland Ship, etc.
hollanditinerary instead of Holland Itinerary

Saving your images to the Desktop makes them easier to locate when you are ready to insert them into your Custom Offer!