HELP creating emails
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- Projectile
trying to crete a half decent looking email, but fucking outlook just doesn't support a damn thing!! Hotmail/gmail etc aren't exactly wonderful either..
Can't use padding or margins, I need a few bullet points but can't use "list-style-position" so the only thing I can think of is to create a whole complex bloody table with images as bullets... but that makes NO sense! I just know it's gonna fuck out because of something else I can't do.
Are there any tutorials/good reference points and tips etc to this sort of thing out there? Send some links my way and share your horror stories and hopefully the solutions too ^ . ^
I've found this but it just tells you what you can/can't use:
- Terminal270
Stick to tables and use transparent gifs all over the shop for padding. Makes you feel like a cheap whore doing it, but it's bullet proof in everything....
I've done loads of them with campaign monitor.
Try to distill the layout into the simplest table structure possible. Nest tables as often as you need to rather than do anything clever...
Trust me it works.
- moniker0
Save yourself a headache caused by creating something nobody gives a shit about anyway, and use a template.
- orrinward0
Yup. Tables tables tables tables. Calculate everything and leave nothing up to the browser to decide.
- booya0
Tables is the key. Tables within tables, next to tables.
Outlook 2007 supports padding - i use it everyday in my campaigns. If your tranparent gifs don't download in the email (if the recipient doesnt have this automatically set) thats going to look a bit random.
- even if it doesnt display the image email progs normally put the space inckentish
- utopian0
mailchimp.com is your friend....
- dan53820
Make sure all styles are inline.
- welded0
You'll probably get further than you might think just by slicing it up and exporting the HTML from Photoshop.
- JazX0
http://www.exacttarget.com
http://www.constantcontact.comjust use straight HTML and resources your images within their system, it's easier that way. Better to use a 600 px width body centered, IMO.
- Projectile0
ok quick tables question... trying to make a table colums of 6 bullet points. The height of the cells is massive, though. "height" and "line-height" aren't supported and if I reduce the font size to make it right, the bullet's one bloody pixel.
any ideas?
- just include your CSS within the HTML itself (where you are entereing that HTML that is)JazX
- benfal990
seriously, what happend to Wave? Everyone wanted his invite but i dont know anyone that is using it
- harmsie0
Sadly tables with in tables
widths on your cells.
Also your inline style need to be in long hand, i.e margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-left: 0;
Then just a shit load of testing.
Its like a living hell
- thanks. wouldn't have realised wtf was breaking it.Projectile