HTML e-mail 1212 Responses

Last post: 2 months, 2 weeks ago | Thread started: Sep 2, 08, 1:13 p.m.

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• ukit

  What's the best way to test an HTML e-mail, i.e. send it to yourself, along with images etc?

  Sep 2, 08, 1:13 p.m. – Permalink

• redant

  check it microsoft word

  • outlook and microsoft word are the same app make sense?– redant

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:14 p.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  depends

  spam it to a personal account, try it in web-based email apps, etc ... just spam really.

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:14 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  what do you mean MS word? I want to test it in different clients like gmail for instance.

  • well don't expect the images to show up in gmail– 7point341/2

    latest outlook uses word's rendering engine– acescence2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:15 p.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  i try not to embed images into html emails either... they should be linked just like a webpage... embedding the image can really bulk up the email, especially if you're mass mailing that shiz

  • just make sure to put absolute URLs in the email, not relative!– acescence

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:16 p.m. – Permalink

• designbot

  Send it to a test group. whatever email application you are using you will be able to setup a test list of addresses.

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:17 p.m. – Permalink

• pylon

  Just test in terms of making sure the email itself works? Just email it yourself.

  Best host the images on a server somewhere, rather than as attachments.

  • Disregard this transmission... designbot and d_rek got there first.– pylon

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:17 p.m. – Permalink

• redant

  when i said MS word i guess i was thinking if u want to make sure the html works in outlook you could the html in MS Word. Outlook does not accept all CSS. e.g., background images

  • open and check html format in word– redant

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:22 p.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  redant,

  As far as I know most email clients to not handle CSS at all... just basic html formatting (ie: font styles, tables, etc) Although some handle a div tag you cannot apply classes or css styles to them. If someone knows otherwise I would love to hear from them.

  • a lot are compliant nowadays however, certain common clients ie: Outlook 2007 and gmail don't– 7point341/4

    which is fucking stupid– 7point342/4

    yes, i am killing myself with an emailer my boss wanted done last week which would be so easily done with css– d_rek3/4

    except their primary email app (MS entourage) is garbage and the web-app they have is only marginally better– d_rek4/4

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:33 p.m. – Permalink

• 7point34

  gmail is a bitch... good luck

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:33 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  i usually put everything up on a server with inline css and absolute paths to images. then visit with Safari and select file > mail contents of page, or in IE select file > send > page by email, or in firefox you need an add-on to email page contents. i have test accounts on aol, yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc. and i send to myself.

  also, this is helpful:
  http://www.campaignmonitor.com/c…

  • ohh very helpful, mucho gracias!– d_rek

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:37 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  Thanks guys!

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:40 p.m. – Permalink

• pylon

  Hey d_rek we've applied CSS to emails many times but the styles have to be included in the email at the top of the page.
  Like acescence says, direct URLs to all images and links.

  Have you considered using mail-list software? phpList is decent and highly customisable. We've set it up for clients many times and included templates for them to use. Getting tinyMCE or FCKeditor (or whatever it's called) can be tricky depending on your server set-up. http://www.phplist.com/

  • Right embedded CSS in the email, i've tried it before but haven't had any luck outside of using it for personal reasons... will give it another shot tho– d_rek

  

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  Dog-earSep 2, 08, 1:43 p.m. – Permalink