CMSimple_XH lite

[Tata]

There is a new trend in e-mailing - simple small websites are sent directly in e-mail body. I tried to make such e-mail based on CMSimple. Creating such webste is very simple and the websites mostly need only one -two additional plugins (advancedform, register, some photo slider). And I wonder if for such purpose a full CMSimple_XH installation is needed. Maybe some sort of CMSimple_XH Lite would be OK. But which components may be removed?

[svasti]

simple small websites are sent directly in e-mail body

You can send a html-website, but a php based website linke CMSimple_XH needs an installed webserver to be shown... most people don't have that. Sending a html-website is okay, It will just open in any browser.
If you want to strip down CMSimple_XH, just delete all plugins except utf8.
But it won't open unless you put it in your localhost folder and call it via localhost.

[cmb]

There is a new trend in e-mailing - simple small websites are sent directly in e-mail body.

If I'm not mistaken, the most that is possible is sending a single HTML document as email body, so this "website" had to be restricted to a single page. There are techniques requiring JavaScript that allow to simulate a website with several pages, but everything is contained in a single document (resp. gets loaded on demand with Ajax), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application. However, CMSimple_XH is not prepared to use this technique, and I have some doubts that this technique will cleanly work in all email clients. Why not simply send a link to the website?

Maybe some sort of CMSimple_XH Lite would be OK. But which components may be removed?

Bjorn already made such a version: CMSimple_LXH. All non-essential plugins have been removed there.

[Tata]

this "website" had to be restricted to a single page. ...Why not simply send a link to the website?

Actually this is the way I do the thing. There is only one simple webpage dropped into the eimal body with a link to a hosted website. But here - also - I don't need too much of functionality and I may need to build a couple of such websites with different contents and templates. That's why I thought about a simpe installation. If there is a content of a couple of kB, it seems to me as a cannon against robins to use some huge system.
However - now I think - it could be made under one installation wit a different template to each subpage, without navigation, using direct page-links in email body. This way it even seems to me to be more effective, as I can have everything on one place.

[svasti]

What you can also do to send a page from a CMSimple_XH website is:
Save the page in your browser (save as "complete website"). This will give you a html file and a folder with css, images and sometimes jQuery-code. You can send this per email and it will open in any browser.

[Tata]

You mean to send the HTML file and the folder in attachement? It is not what I mean.
I mean a simple webfile show in email body with a link or button link to more functional webpage placed on internet.