HTML email newsletters have come a long way in the five years since this article was first published. HTML email is still a very successful communications medium for both publishers and readers. Publishers can track rates for email opens, forwards, and clickthroughs, and thereby can measure reader interest in products and topics; readers are presented with information that's laid out like a web page, in a way that's more visually appealing, and much easier to scan and navigate, than plain text email.
Browser idiosyncracies, spam registers, and various mail clients are just some of the pitfalls that must be faced by email marketers. Make sure your HTML email gets through with Tim's essential how-to.
As web designers, we've grown pretty good at understanding how to create a modern, semantic, accessible website using XHTML and CSS. We understand what makes a good website, and how to make it happen.
When it comes time to design emails though, do all the same rules apply? Are there things we should be doing specifically for email that don't make sense on a website? In this article we'll discuss the technical, design and information elements that make up a successful HTML email.
This template passes W3C WAI WCAG AAA (Automatic testing) and is valid XHTML and Valid CSS. You are free to use it as you see fit and modify it to suit your purposes and it should be easy for you to edit and quickly change the design (all controlled by external and free css files).
What is the css tinderbox?
It's All About Open Source Design Templates
The CSS Tinderbox is an effort to support open source web design by providing very basic, yet solid, CSS/XHTML design templates that web designers and web developers can use as the foundation for their own projects.
What is the css tinderbox?
It's All About Open Source Design Templates
The CSS Tinderbox is an effort to support open source web design by providing very basic, yet solid, CSS/XHTML design templates that web designers and web developers can use as the foundation for their own projects.
Spundo offer superior website design and development using all of the latest programming technologies such as PHP, Javascript, CSS, XHTML fully compliant coding
Proper use and best practices
sIFR is a powerful tool. So powerful, in fact, that you can completely ruin a web page with it if you get overzealous and don’t exercise restraint.
sIFR is for headlines, pull quotes, and other small swaths of text
type which accents the rest of the page. Body copy should remain browser text.
Optimized dynamic generation of Flash movies bound using javascript to provide rich Font experience regardless of the client. Degrades gracefully. Looks interesting when you just HAVE to have that PERFECT font.
Note that it is NOT intended for full paragraphs or any type of extended passages. Serves a similar function as Text Images.