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Posted by Harlan Messinger on July 26, 2006, 10:34 am
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maya wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'm designing an HTML email for a client.. I know general guidelines
> (no CSS, no JavaScript... although I do use limited CSS, inside tags (as
> in <span style=".."> we do this at work and it works fine, so I figured
> it's ok..)
A STYLE tag works too, no?
>
> but I have a few more questions, for example, is it ok to do client-side
> image-maps?
Define "OK".
> is there a web page somewhere with general guidelines for
> HTML e-mails? (and what is best way to test HTML e-mails? (I look @ pg
> in browser, of course, but well, how to tell how it'll look in diverse
> e-mail clients?)
I don't mean to be flip, but mailing them to yourself and opening them
in diverse e-mail clients comes to mind.
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Posted by PTM on July 26, 2006, 10:57 am
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> maya wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> I'm designing an HTML email for a client.. I know general guidelines (no
>> CSS, no JavaScript... although I do use limited CSS, inside tags (as in
>> <span style=".."> we do this at work and it works fine, so I figured it's
>> ok..)
>
> A STYLE tag works too, no?
>
>>
>> but I have a few more questions, for example, is it ok to do client-side
>> image-maps?
>
> Define "OK".
>
>> is there a web page somewhere with general guidelines for HTML e-mails?
>> (and what is best way to test HTML e-mails? (I look @ pg in browser, of
>> course, but well, how to tell how it'll look in diverse e-mail clients?)
>
> I don't mean to be flip, but mailing them to yourself and opening them in
> diverse e-mail clients comes to mind.
never used image maps in html emails.
but depending on the size of the pic involved it might be a better idea to
cut it up into pieces, as seems to be the norm.
you can still use style tags to ensure all the image pieces display
correctly to make up the full image.
you can also assign the 'hrefs' to the individual pieces (providing they're
not weird and wonderful shapes). this will have the side-effect benefit of
loading the email faster as the smaller images will all load (generally)
faster than a single large one.
Phil
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Posted by David E. Ross on July 26, 2006, 1:27 pm
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maya wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'm designing an HTML email for a client.. I know general guidelines
> (no CSS, no JavaScript... although I do use limited CSS, inside tags (as
> in <span style=".."> we do this at work and it works fine, so I figured
> it's ok..)
>
> but I have a few more questions, for example, is it ok to do client-side
> image-maps? is there a web page somewhere with general guidelines for
> HTML e-mails? (and what is best way to test HTML e-mails? (I look @ pg
> in browser, of course, but well, how to tell how it'll look in diverse
> e-mail clients?)
>
> thank you..
>
>
If this is a newsletter, do it as a Web page, not in an E-mail message.
Then broadcast a very brief E-mail message with a link to the Web page
to inform your audience that a new edition of the newsletter is
available. Tell your employer that your audience will appreciate this
more than having to download long E-mail messages.
According to a study by the Congressional Accountability Office less
than a year ago, more than half of those who access the Internet from
home still do so via dial-up modems.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
Concerned about someone (e.g., Pres. Bush) snooping
into your E-mail? Use PGP.
See my <http://www.rossde.com/PGP/>
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Posted by Michael Vilain on July 26, 2006, 3:30 pm
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> maya wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I'm designing an HTML email for a client.. I know general guidelines
> > (no CSS, no JavaScript... although I do use limited CSS, inside tags (as
> > in <span style=".."> we do this at work and it works fine, so I figured
> > it's ok..)
> >
> > but I have a few more questions, for example, is it ok to do client-side
> > image-maps? is there a web page somewhere with general guidelines for
> > HTML e-mails? (and what is best way to test HTML e-mails? (I look @ pg
> > in browser, of course, but well, how to tell how it'll look in diverse
> > e-mail clients?)
> >
> > thank you..
> >
> >
>
> If this is a newsletter, do it as a Web page, not in an E-mail message.
> Then broadcast a very brief E-mail message with a link to the Web page
> to inform your audience that a new edition of the newsletter is
> available. Tell your employer that your audience will appreciate this
> more than having to download long E-mail messages.
>
> According to a study by the Congressional Accountability Office less
> than a year ago, more than half of those who access the Internet from
> home still do so via dial-up modems.
Another thing to point out to your client is that if they manage their
own email server, they're spewing all this stuff and clogging the email
queue. If you send a short message with the URL for the newsletter to
everyone using a list, it takes considerably less space on the mail
system. Then again, there's those clowns in marketing that keep sending
their 5MB PowerPoint presentations to all 3000 people in the company.
That will really clog a mail spool. God help them if they run Exchange,
but that's another topic.
If someone else (e.g. an ISP) is managing their mail system, talk to
them. I'm sure they don't appreciate the increased mail load you're
creating and will tell you so by putting a 1MB/message limit on each
email sent.
--
DeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee...
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Posted by Dr John Stockton on July 26, 2006, 4:34 pm
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Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:27:13 remote, seen in news:comp.infosystems.www.auth
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>According to a study by the Congressional Accountability Office less
>than a year ago, more than half of those who access the Internet from
>home still do so via dial-up modems.
Are you sure that you have a valid argument there? More than half of
those who access the Internet from home are not in America.
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Web <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - FAQish topics, acronyms, & links.
Check boilerplate spelling -- error is a public sign of incompetence.
Never fully trust an article from a poster who gives no full real name.
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