Selecting an ‘option’ blew up the send part of the newsletter plugin. Meanwhile…
…I’ve been working on creating the ¡mu! newsletter itself. I’ve used the basic template supplied with the plugin and modified it a little (replacing the header graphic, resizing the text and removing the title from the header).
How did I do that? I copied the ‘Kubrick’ template folder that came with the plugin and picked around in the php files with a text editor, replacing existing image URLs with my own (made to the right size). I took out the code that placed the newsletter title on the header. I added some HTML somewhere to reduce the default font size.
And then I just went about adding text, links and images in sections. It’s just a basic, 2 column newsletter but it’s more than enough to be getting started with.
What would be great would be some way of creating a newsletter design simply and easily from your site’s active theme, without having to hand-alter it the way I have. For all I know it might already be possible to do that but easy or obvious it ain’t.
With a bit of luck, by next week I might have some idea how to fix whatever broke when I clicked the ‘delete unsubscribers from database’ button in the plugin’s ‘Option’s page. ShiftThis.net if there’s anything you can do to help (in plain, non-developer English) I’d appreciate it 
[Update: Newsletter working, ShiftThis support improving - see this post]
