Did you ever wonder about how your email looks like in different email applications and services? Designing your newsletter, converting it to HTML code and then filling it with your content, all these tasks take too much time and after making your newsletter ready for delivery, what happens if you notice that your email looks like corrupted in Microsoft Outlook 2003 but looks fine in Microsoft Outlook 2007?

This is not a problem anymore. PreviewMyEmail.com email preview service is now integrated with Oempro4. You can get screen shots of your email on 15 email applications and services in just a few minutes by only clicking a single link.  

Once you integrate your PreviewMyEmail account with Oempro4, you will be able to get screen shots of your email design on your screen in just a few minutes after clicking “Preview email design” link:

Once your email is previewed on different email clients, you will start to see results on your screen:

The best of all, once you subscribe to PreviewMyEmail.com service, it offers different plans for your budget.

It also comes with a full featured API access which allows you to integrate this state-of-art service with your own projects.

We are hiring junior level PHP programmer for our Istanbul, Turkey office. Our new team member will be responsible for providing level 1 customer support service for our customers in different countries (mostly US, EU and Australia).

If you;

• have intermediate PHP/MySQL knowledge
• have basic/intermediate *nix operating system experience
• know what does FTP, SSH, cron mean
• are passionate and patient about helping novice users
• have good communication skills
• have good/excellent English reading/speaking/writing skills
• are willing to work at a peaceful, motivating working environment
• are excited and passionate about learning every day
• are a good team member

we will be happy to meet you and discuss job opportunities further. Position applications should be sent to cv {at} octeth {dot} com including description of your skills and benefits that you can provide to Octeth.

p.s.: This is a full-time job position for our Istanbul office which is located in Bakirkoy district. Detailed contact information can be found here.

We are hiring technical author who is experienced in writing user manuals, guides, wiki articles and screen casts for web applications and services. This is an online, location-free job position.

If you believe that you are the right person for this position, please get in touch with Cem via cem [at] octeth [dot] com with subject “Position: Technical Writer”

Thanks.

10 years ago, on 13th February 1999, me and my partner Mert founded Octeth that targets global web application market. As I remember those days, managing a business online was almost a night mare, there were only a few payment gateways, slow internet connection, expensive infrastructures, no Google :p, etc. In 10 years, lots of things have changed but Octeth achieved to be one of the best in email marketing. Thanks go to our fellow customers.

Thank you for being a loyal customer of Octeth! We couldn’t be here and providing leading web applications for email marketers without your help.

Mac/Windows/Linux compatible Campaign Tracker desktop application for Oempro4 is released today. This application allows you to view statuses and basic reports of your email campaigns on your desktop without opening a web browser. Campaign Tracker is a free application for Oempro4.

For more information and download link, please visit http://octeth.com/addons/applications/ page.

Thanks.

Oempro v4.0.3 update covers bug fixes and some improvements. Click the following link to view change list of Oempro v4.0.3 update:

http://octeth.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3351

We will be releasing frequent Oempro4 updates and new plug-ins in following weeks. Stay tuned for updates.

While we are preparing for Oempro v4.0.3 update this week, a quick update for Translator Plug-In is just released. This update includes a fix that causes some problems with special HTML characters in translations. Please download Translator Plug-In from your client area and overwrite old files with new ones.

Visit http://octeth.com/addons/ to browse Oempro4 add-ons such as plug-ins, language packs, email templates and more.

Thanks.

I wanted to share a jQuery plug-in which we have developed in previous months to use on our applications. This jQuery plug-in will take all selected textareas and textfields and apply a default value behaviour.

What is default value behaviour?
Default value of a textfield or a textarea is displayed inside the element itself by default as you have guessed. But when the element has focus, default value is cleared so user can enter a new value. When the element loses focus, if no value is entered, default value is displayed again else new value is displayed.

How to use?
Using this plugin is simple as any other jQuery plugins. Plugin gets default values from elements’ values. So first, you need to add values to your input elements on the page. Then run the code below when your page is loaded.

$("input[type=text],textarea").addDefaultValueBehavior();

Options
“Default Value Behavior” plugin has two options which are self explanatory.

var options = {default_color:'#a0a0a0',focus_color:'#000'};
$("input[type=text],textarea").addDefaultValueBehavior(options);

Download

Download normal version and compressed version files here.

Happy New Year to everyone out there!

Octeth Team is ready for another successful year. 2008 was a milestone in Octeth’s 9,5 years of history. We achieved several objectives such as opening a successful permission based email marketing service Sendloop.com, researched and developed real-time email screen shot taking service PreviewMyEmail.com, opened the new version of Wridea.com, changed our primary website Octeth.com design and most importantly released 4th version of Oempro. Besides project developments, 2008 was a great success for us. We gained thousands of new customers and became a bigger, stronger company.

For 2009, we planned a brand new application to be released, tens of Oempro plug-ins and monthly periodical updates for our products and online services just like in previous years.

2009 will be a better year for Octeth Customers because we will start offering more services and opportunities in our products.

More importantly, I want to thank all of our fellow friends who support us by purchasing our products and services. I wish 2009 brings happiness, health and success to all of you.

On behalf of Octeth Team,

Best Regards,
Cem Hurturk
Co-Founder, CEO
Octeth Ltd.