Comments on: Creating HTML Emails http://www.bostonid.com/blog/creating-html-emails/ ...our thoughts on web design, web development, identity branding, coffee, and other unassociated topics. Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:51:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.39 By: Glenn Hodgkinson http://www.bostonid.com/blog/creating-html-emails/#comment-450 Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:51:14 +0000 http://bostonid.com/blog/?p=1#comment-450 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 :)

]]> By: Matt http://www.bostonid.com/blog/creating-html-emails/#comment-442 Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:07:11 +0000 http://bostonid.com/blog/?p=1#comment-442 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!

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