Comments on: Tips for developing HTML emails http://joeloliveira.com/2010/01/15/tips-for-developing-html-emails/ I work on the web making stuff I like. I live in Boston(-ish) with my wife and our English Bulldog. Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Joel http://joeloliveira.com/2010/01/15/tips-for-developing-html-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-13540 Joel Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:33:38 +0000 http://www.joeloliveira.com/?p=771#comment-13540 Seth - thanks for the comment! :). To answer your question - outlook express is a beast unto itself ... so, I would consider installing the latest and testing w/2007 (unfortunately). There's a free trial on the MS site that you can use for 60 days I think. I would definitely recommend that for now until you *must* register. Seth – thanks for the comment! :).

To answer your question – outlook express is a beast unto itself … so, I would consider installing the latest and testing w/2007 (unfortunately). There’s a free trial on the MS site that you can use for 60 days I think. I would definitely recommend that for now until you *must* register.

]]> By: Seth Gottlieb http://joeloliveira.com/2010/01/15/tips-for-developing-html-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-13316 Seth Gottlieb Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:37:21 +0000 http://www.joeloliveira.com/?p=771#comment-13316 Thanks for writing this up! Pretty soon I will be building out functionality to send out HTML invitation emails for a project that I am working on. One question... Does Outlook Express behave like Outlook when it comes to HTML email rendering or do I have to go off and buy a copy of MS Office for my virtual machine? Thanks for writing this up! Pretty soon I will be building out functionality to send out HTML invitation emails for a project that I am working on. One question… Does Outlook Express behave like Outlook when it comes to HTML email rendering or do I have to go off and buy a copy of MS Office for my virtual machine?

]]> By: russo http://joeloliveira.com/2010/01/15/tips-for-developing-html-emails/comment-page-1/#comment-12414 russo Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:07:37 +0000 http://www.joeloliveira.com/?p=771#comment-12414 It's sad how clients tend to think of an HTML as something so easy/trivial that it can be a last minute after thought. Or better yet, the type of job where they can give you half-ass content, go on vacation for a couple days in the middle, and then complain that the changes they masterminded at 9pm weren't waiting for them in the morning. "OMG WHY DOESNT IT LOOK RIGHT IN <>!!!1" Possibly because there are more possible combinations of OS/Client/Browser/propretary user settings than there are Smiths in a major city's phonebook. Good tips, I'm embarassed to admit I had no idea about the Outlook/background-image shamozzle before you mentioned it. Bookmark'd I've also found it easier to just stack tables on top of each other instead of getting tricky with colspans and crap. Break it into sections if you can and be done, FTDS Happy Drinking. It’s sad how clients tend to think of an HTML as something so easy/trivial that it can be a last minute after thought. Or better yet, the type of job where they can give you half-ass content, go on vacation for a couple days in the middle, and then complain that the changes they masterminded at 9pm weren’t waiting for them in the morning.

“OMG WHY DOESNT IT LOOK RIGHT IN <>!!!1″
Possibly because there are more possible combinations of OS/Client/Browser/propretary user settings than there are Smiths in a major city’s phonebook.

Good tips, I’m embarassed to admit I had no idea about the Outlook/background-image shamozzle before you mentioned it. Bookmark’d
I’ve also found it easier to just stack tables on top of each other instead of getting tricky with colspans and crap. Break it into sections if you can and be done, FTDS

Happy Drinking.

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