HTML email guide

Question

I am not new to HTML/CSS, although I have never created a HTML email before.

• Are there any nice online resources I can look at to learn from?

• What do I have to take into consideration when it comes to email clients?

• Do they display HTML/CSS content differently like browsers? (IE problems etc.)

I am not even sure where the HTML/CSS is supposed to be inserted!

Answer 1

Because of security vulnerabilities and because most web email clients don't want you messing up the layout of the client itself, what html and what css they will render varies wildly.

Campaign monitor has a roundup of some of the features available/not available for use in emails;

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

Answer 2

A HTML email newsletters guide from 2008 is here . Some email templates can be found here. And a really old site mentioning why HTML emails are bad is here. Anyway, if you add an option for HTML emails, add one for plaintext ones, too. I feel I'm not the only one who prefers the plaintext one.

Answer 3

Hi,

I recently saw this book about HTML emailing.

Grz, Kris.