A designer has coded an HTML template using CSS best practices. I want to use this template as an email newsletter template, but I have learned people that Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail have limited support for CSS offered.
Do I want to re-code these layouts using a table layout?
The short answer is yes
You are going to get the best compatibility in webmail accounts & amp; E-mail clients using the most basic and empty HTML possible.
- Do not use any CSS files or & lt; Style & gt; Tag Inline Everything
- Positioning with nested tables has a clear width of
- I am making heavy use of HTML comments in these situations so that I do not know where I am in the layout.
- Add all text to & lt; Font & gt; Should be surrounded by. Tag with font style information
- Clear width in images and amp; Heights.
- E-mail helps to keep its proper layout when the image is blocked.
I typically test at least
- Most of your headaches will come from here.
- Thunderbird
- Anthorage (OSX version of Outlook)
- Gmail
- Hotmail
- Yahoo Mail
You are usually in very good condition if you find something that looks right on all of those
And they have an HTML preview feature but it's not right. I have run a lot of those situations where an email was good in the preview but still Outlook is broken in 2007.
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