Outlook 2007: let the email design battle commence

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All those different webmail services and email clients continue to throw a spanner of confusion in the email design works.

Here's a lovely example from the excellent MindComet blog. Emails from Xbox (owned by Microsoft) aren't designed for Outlook 2007 (owned by Microsoft).

Continuing the theme, Alex at eROI examines a newsletter that looks grim in Outlook 2007...and explains the HTML/CSS problems behind the glitches.

But it's not all bad news. MailChimp has a post on using background images in HTML emails where Outlook 2007 actually does relatively well.

There are a few useful hints in there on how to ensure you get the right background color appearing in your table cells.

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