Any Sendy.co Users ?

I just bought a Sendy.co license and set it up with Nginx HTTP/2 SSL with Amazon SES on a fresh 2GB Linode Freemont KVM VPS using their Get Started with Sendy guide.

Will be using it to setup official Centmin Mod newsletter/mail list for news and security updates for Centmin Mod users. Not everyone is registered on the forums, so setting up a mailing list visitors on centminmod.com site can sign up for is a good idea

So any other Sendy users besides @Andy and @BamaStangGuy ? @RoldanLT @dorobo @jeffwidman @Matt you guys played with Sendy.co script before ?

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Looks like they have a forum at All Discussions - Sendy Forum too

 

something for your to do list

Yeah got Sendy.co installed and working so far on Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 version over HTTP/2 SSL So far tested a test sign up via form, test unsubscribe, schedule cron console and setup first brand and added a list. All working on Centmin Mod Nginx

Just i sux at HTML forms for some reason they always look crap and well need to hunt for responsive HTML email templates. So if you guys know of any nice subscribe form and responsive HTML email templates, please share

Here's my Sendy.co Nginx rewrite and settings

Code:

  # Don't allow search engines to index any
  add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex, noarchive";

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php?$args;
  }

  location /l/ {
    rewrite ^/l/([a-zA-Z0-9/]+)$ /l.php?i=$1 last;
  }
  location /t/ {
    rewrite ^/t/([a-zA-Z0-9/]+)$ /t.php?i=$1 last;
  }
  location /w/ {
    rewrite ^/w/([a-zA-Z0-9/]+)$ /w.php?i=$1 last;
  }
  location /unsubscribe/ {
    rewrite ^/unsubscribe/(.*)$ /unsubscribe.php?i=$1 last;
  }
  location /subscribe/ {
    rewrite ^/subscribe/(.*)$ /subscribe.php?i=$1 last;
  }

and lock down the /login page

create http authentication user and password

Code:

/usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd.sh create /usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd_sendylogin USERNAME PASSWORD

setup in vhost

Code:

location /login {
     auth_basic "Private";
     auth_basic_user_file /usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd_sendylogin;
        include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
        allow 127.0.0.1;
        #allow YOURIPADDRESS;
        deny all;
    try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php?$args;
}

 

yeah i went from Mandrill to 100% Amazon SES, cheaper for the long term

hmm not looking forward to experiencing that

 

Testing plain html email template

 

Figuring out the subscribe forum html code. I signed up for codepen.io and posted a snippet at sendy.co subscribe form Any html/web design savy folks can come up with a better layout that doesn't touch the existing CSS (may add new CSS) ? Just sign up for codepen.io and fork my snippet to create your own

 

you don't need sendy.co for that, just Amazon SES smtp service which is smtp transactional email like Mailgun, Sendgrid, Mandril etc

sendy.co is for newsletters to send via Amazon SES smtp

 

so you're using a forum addon for sendy ?

 

yeah i am settling on this simplistic one i whipped up at https://community.centminmod.com/posts/25843/

 

So guys need some help with html5/css3 coding for the subscription form so any web dev wizards can offer some advice.

Problem:

The basic messed up and mis-aligned form code is on codepen at sendy.co subscribe form ver 4 as you can see doesn't look right at all.

• Input field should be wider and button alignment is off.
• in mobile and tablets viewport the email input and button elements sit on top of each other instead of beside each other like in desktop view

The actual code in context is on my test page on my site at CentminMod.com LEMP Fully Optimized Nginx web stack for CentOS so you can see the problem on mobile and tablet viewports. If you have other ideas for HTML/CSS3 layout of the form as well I'm open to that as well

 

haha so simple ! thanks so much

so that takes care of alignment, just need mobile/tablet views to not have form on top of button and have it side by side

 

ah yes

so need to do something else for mobile views