Comments on: HTML Email Standards http://www.rikcatindustries.com/2007/10/02/html-email-standards/ The Portfolio of Rik Catlow Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:34:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Steve - Eightyone Design http://www.rikcatindustries.com/2007/10/02/html-email-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-558 Steve - Eightyone Design Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:38:46 +0000 http://www.rikcatindustries.com/2007/10/02/html-email-standards/#comment-558 We do a lot of work for one particular client in which we send out a weekly html email to over 50,000 subscribers and it is a complete nightmare guessing on how the end user may (or may not) view the final email. For one thing, I find it very hard to revert back to Table based layouts as it seems to take much longer to get things to view how you want them not relying on CSS. Web based email providers like hotmail or Gmail are also a pain, as you say, due to them completely striping out all CSS. I for one, are very interested in some sort of html email standards - I think it would make our job so much easier. We do a lot of work for one particular client in which we send out a weekly html email to over 50,000 subscribers and it is a complete nightmare guessing on how the end user may (or may not) view the final email.

For one thing, I find it very hard to revert back to Table based layouts as it seems to take much longer to get things to view how you want them not relying on CSS. Web based email providers like hotmail or Gmail are also a pain, as you say, due to them completely striping out all CSS.

I for one, are very interested in some sort of html email standards – I think it would make our job so much easier.

]]> By: Mathew Patterson http://www.rikcatindustries.com/2007/10/02/html-email-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Mathew Patterson Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:23:02 +0000 http://www.rikcatindustries.com/2007/10/02/html-email-standards/#comment-94 Hey Rik, Thanks for the mention, we know it is a big job ahead of us at Campaign Monitor, but we also know it won't happen without someone doing something! We've got a standalone email standards website coming soon to kick the whole thing off, so watch out for that. Hey Rik,

Thanks for the mention, we know it is a big job ahead of us at Campaign Monitor, but we also know it won’t happen without someone doing something!

We’ve got a standalone email standards website coming soon to kick the whole thing off, so watch out for that.

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