Outlook 2007 messes with your HTML emails
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The latest Sitepoint newsletter has a long piece on how the new version of Microsoft's main email software is a big heap of trouble for those designing HTML emails.
The article presents a long list of traditional email design features -- like forms or background images -- which break in Outlook 2007. And there are some useful links for you to follow to get further details.
The lack of standards among the software and services used to read email means we're faced with two choices.
Either we have really simple email design that displays adequately everywhere. Or we invest the time and energy in categorizing an address list (where possible) by reading environment and design different emails for each of these categories (segments.)
More on HTML and CSS in emails | Tags: email marketing, html emails, outlook 2007
The article presents a long list of traditional email design features -- like forms or background images -- which break in Outlook 2007. And there are some useful links for you to follow to get further details.
The lack of standards among the software and services used to read email means we're faced with two choices.
Either we have really simple email design that displays adequately everywhere. Or we invest the time and energy in categorizing an address list (where possible) by reading environment and design different emails for each of these categories (segments.)
More on HTML and CSS in emails | Tags: email marketing, html emails, outlook 2007
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