CSS in HTML emails demystified
Posted on Saturday, October 8th, 2005 at 2:50 pm under Web.
To my fellow web developers, last year Mark Wyner wrote a great article on A List Apart about how to work around designing html emails using CSS. The tutorial covers many issues that would have taken me an eternity to figure out, hats off to Mark for his determination. I was revisiting this article today since I’m working on designing an html email right now and I wanted to share it with you in case you never read it. Here comes the geeky part: Do not use html, head or body tags, use divs instead. Use embedded CSS. Do not use classes that start with a dot, but u can do #div.class instead. The same goes to the a: tag.
Link: A List Apart: CSS and Email, Kissing in a Tree
Technorati Tags: css, web, web design
Oct 8th, 2005 at 3:44 pm
hey melly,
i’ve been looking into these guys: campaignmonitor.com for deployment and list management.Their prices are pretty good and they advertise on 37 signals, so they gotta be pretty cool. i’m gonna do it for our project for the response metrics. i don’t know if you guys need all that, but you should look in to it.
Oct 9th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
Firstly, thanks for the referral Ed, much appreciated.
Melvin, you might be interested to know that Mark’s actually written a follow up to his original article for our blog with loads of updates to his original techniques. Definitely worth checking out.