[mtran]

Hi,

I'm wondering if there's a way to send nicely formatted emails -- using html or the like-- that still keeps the same format when being opened by receivers regardless of email softwares the clients are using outlook, eudora, lotus notes, hotmail, yahoo,....

Thanks for your input. I'm completely clueless about this.

[d*d]

nope nothing works across all those mentioned, there is a best practice method of creating html for emails, use tables to layout the design, wrap the whole thing in a div called content and use it as the parent for all css style blocks ('content p' for example).
Check what it looks like without images as people can turn images off in their client and you can't override it.
Provide a plain text version to cover those clients that don't accept html

[bomski]

ditto what d*d said....
also, you might want to check out http://www.mailchimp.com/resources/g...l_design.phtml and download the pdf; it gives a good outline to the do's and don't's of creating html e-mails... (the first chapter is the best bit, the rest relates to the MailChimp mass marketing webapp).

Bomski

[talk2frank]

You should always send a text alternative with the html email aswell, and the type should be 'multipart alternative' - look up something on that, as you will look unprofesssional when you lovely html email lands in a text only webmail program and is simply source code.

talk2frank
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