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Comment on Creating HTML Emails by Glenn Hodgkinson

Glenn Hodgkinson — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:51:14 +0000

Hi Matt,

I agree with you about it being an option purely for the base and that you should test, test, test. Great points but the gist of this articles is that it is really because Fireworks DOES make tables and colspans that I think it is a viable tool for custom HTML email designs. I would never use Fireworks, or tables and colspans for that matter, in website design but for HTML emails tables render as expected. Trying to write web standards compliant code for HTML emails and have them render correctly in all the different email clients is a nightmare.

Although this article is over 18 months old now I still recommend writing code like we did 15 years ago in order to get consistent results in email clients. Just don’t do it for the web

Comment on Creating HTML Emails by Matt

Matt — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:07:11 +0000

I use Fireworks and you need to be careful!
Although the initial process is good and you can quickly code up templates and get a good standard HTML base. Fireworks will add tables and give them colspans which will not render correctly across all browsers.

But having said that I do still use it to quickly set table sizes and get a good HTML base, I then go in and add remove styles as needed.

I say go for it but don’t rely on Fireworks solving all your issues and be sure to test, test and then test some more!

Comment on Adobe Creative Cloud and its impact on Web Designers by ZealousWeb @ Web Design Firm

ZealousWeb @ Web Design Firm — Mon, 27 May 2013 09:59:50 +0000

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Comment on How to center a web page with CSS by admin

admin — Fri, 03 May 2013 03:33:28 +0000

If you simply want to center-align content within that div you can just use text-align:center.

Comment on How to center a web page with CSS by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:21:58 +0000

Thanks for a simple explanation. How would you then center stuff inside that div?

Comment on Best Practices for HTML Email Design by admin

admin — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:38:50 +0000

Hi Sean,

You certainly can optimize for mobile devices, although strangely not many people are as yet.

You can use a media query inside an embedded style sheet (just remember to use the !important value to overwrite the inline styles).

I will try to find some articles and post the links or write a follow up article that provides more information.

– Glenn

Comment on Best Practices for HTML Email Design by Sean Kehoe

Sean Kehoe — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:18:40 +0000

Hi Glenn,
I came accross your blog regarding the best practices for html email design. Im curious to learn more about optimising emails to be viewed on mobile devices. Can you give me some guidelines regarding this or if possible, can you send on some website links that would relate to this topic.

thanking you in advance

Comment on How to center a web page with CSS by filmy-love.org

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