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Posted 04 November 2011 - 07:14 AM (#1)

Everything you've ever wanted to know about HTML email

If you ever need to make HTML email, this site looks amazing: http://www.emailology.org/. A great resource with a lot of tips and tricks, and it also has an "email boilerplate" to use as a starting template.

For people that have never had the "joy" of making fancy HTML emails, it's a dangerous world out there. HTML emails are messy and get complicated. Tables are required quite often, and it's a LOT more painful than IE6 ever was. Not only do you have to deal with different rendering engines, ever email client also treats these emails differently. Outlook 2010 does things a bit differently to 2007, which is different to Thunderbird. Web-based clients are even worse. Not only do you have to deal with the cross-browser issues, you also have to deal with the email provider. Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail all mangle HTML emails in different ways. Hotmail especially - You often need to include some "bug fix" CSS to work around Hotmail issues.

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tl;dr: Use plain text emails.

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Kyek, on 16 November 2011 - 11:14 AM, said:

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Posted 04 November 2011 - 03:43 PM (#2)

Daniel15, on 04 November 2011 - 07:14 AM, said:

tl;dr: Use plain text emails.

love your conclusion

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