HTML and CSS in emails
More articles on this marketing and design theme.
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Outlook 2007 messes with your HTML emails
Article outlining the problems that Outlook 2007 has with rendering your HTML and CSS-based emails properly.
Testing HTML emails
Describes in detail the mix of operating systems, devices and software environments one designer uses to test emails. Includes a lot of discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of CSS-based design viz a viz basic HTML coding.
Guide for creating HTML emails
17-page guide to coding and design of HTML emails, but including bonus tips on related elements (like testing and text-only emails). You need to submit a form to access a copy.
HTML emails: taming the beast
Advice on the use of different design elements and approaches (particularly CSS), and how these match up to the preferences of different display environments.
How to make your email enticing in Outlook's AutoPreview
Reveals what the AutoPreview function is and why it's an issue. Also has some tips on how to get it to work in your favor
Designing your templates for preview panes
Advice on exactly how you can adjust your email design so it encourages interaction and responses, even when just previewed by Outlook and other clients / email services.
Designing, coding and delivering HTML email
50 page guide with tips on layout, coding, and the idiosyncrasies of different software and sites used by recipients to view their email.
If email clients mangle your HTML - fix it!
A collection of points, possibilities and polite suggestions for the way you use HTML to design your emails.
20 HTML Email Tips
List of tips, suggestions and considerations covering the design and layout of your HTML emails.
Six Tips to Make HTML Email Look Right
Tips that should help you get your message across in HTML and avoid your email looking like a 1999 high school project.
The Challenges of HTML Email
Forum thread featuring various tips, tricks and advice on using HTML/CSS in outgoing email.
Optimizing CSS presentation in HTML emails
Detailed description of a technique for ensuring the integrity of HTML email designs based on CSS style tags. Also describes the idiosyncracies (when it comes to handling CSS tags in HTML emails) of various email clients and web-based email systems like Gmail and Yahoo.