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Last post: 6 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Mar 12, 08, 12:30 p.m.
- akrokdesign
i'm buidling it in dreamweaver and using directmail to send it out. question is. can I use css. (style sheet) ?????
- Mar 12, 08, 12:30 p.m. – Permalink
- mrdobolina
if you do, embed it directly in the html, don't call out to a separate file. Your best bet is to keep html emails old school though, use tables, font tags and all that. no sense in doing it the other way and having people with outlook not able to see it.


- Dog-earMar 12, 08, 12:32 p.m. – Permalink
- mrdobolina
gmail trashes most layouts.


- Dog-earMar 12, 08, 12:35 p.m. – Permalink
- akrokdesign
great answers. thank you.


- Dog-earMar 12, 08, 12:37 p.m. – Permalink
- akrokdesign
i'm deleted the css style sheet and going basic.
I got a background color in the tables, but for some reason when I email it, it just plain white. any ideas?


- Dog-earMar 12, 08, 12:54 p.m. – Permalink
- akrokdesign
once agian. thanks.


- Dog-earMar 12, 08, 1:01 p.m. – Permalink
- geralddean
@daro:
you may or may not be aware but if you are sending to a large enough list your low text/image ratio in your email would get you blacklisted as a spammer.
You should have sufficient text and don't use spammy subject lines either.
Just something to think about.
@akrok,
if use a td with a background color to nest a table with no background color but with the text/etc, the background color of the nesting td will not disappear.


- Dog-earMar 12, 08, 1:35 p.m. – Permalink
- geralddean
also if you send something with the background of the entire email intended to be a certain color... the best thing to do would be to nest the entire email template with a table width = 100% and assign the background color to the td that encapsulates the email news letter.
I could send you an example.

- Dog-earMar 12, 08, 1:38 p.m. – Permalink
- flashbender
You might want to take a look at these:


- Dog-earMar 12, 08, 1:53 p.m. – Permalink
- akrokdesign
thank you!


- Dog-earMar 12, 08, 2:36 p.m. – Permalink
- dtan
oh god...i've been getting bitch slapped with these at work ever since i started...fucking terrible. i hate them to death...
that being said, here are a few things to do:- no css files, no <style> declarations, only inline styling
- use style="display: block" on all images to eliminate that annoying white gap in some clients
- use <font> tags
- make the layout with tables
- if you want the email to be forwarded and not break in the forwarding process, you cannot have stacked tables otherwise white gaps will appear in the forwarded versionhere's the updated link to campaign monitor someone else just posted:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/b…

- Dog-earMar 12, 08, 2:47 p.m. – Permalink
- akrokdesign
Only pay when you send
Campaign Monitor's pricing structure couldn't be more simple. There are no setup fees, no monthly fees and no hidden fees.
For each campaign you send with more than 5 recipients, you pay a flat delivery fee of $5 plus 1 cent/recipient. Any campaigns you send to 5 or less people are free of charge.
Let's say you're sending an email newsletter for a client to their database of 4,500 subscribers. To send this newsletter, you will be charged $5 plus a cent for each recipient, $45 in this case, making a total of $50. All prices are in US dollars.

- Dog-earApr 8, 08, 10:50 a.m. – Permalink

