Fake’s Tank

I’ve been spending way too much time trying to create a generic email design template for one of my employer’s client. It was with deep frustration that I’ve let the table designs win over the Right Way. In Hotmail principally but also in Gmail, sent emails always seemed to differ from the original version. Even more surprising, sending the same email template twice didn’t produce two identical emails once in the inbox.

Now that I can’t work on the email template anymore, I find a page explaining the do’s and don’t of email designs. The article raises good points, but the most useful bit is the chart explaining what is blocked and what’s not in the most popular email softwares/sites.

By the way, the main problem with my email template was that we didn’t remove \n and \r from the text. That was stupid.

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