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Hi there. I've always been taught to code up my html email newsletters using inline styles only. For instance, I'd code a piece of Arial, 10pt, black text as follows: <span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt; color:#000000">HERE IS MY TEXT</span> But these days...

Cheers for your reply. I certainly could code it by hand. But when you have to churn out as many as I do in a day, it'd mean a serious hindrance in workrate. At the moment I use the html produced by photoshop as a decent frame work. I then go through the code and tidy it up, adding styled text...

Please let me know if there's another thread about this. I couldn't find one. I use photoshop to design email blasts. To try and make html emails format across all email clients, all of my html contains inline css only (e.g. <span style="font-size:10pt; color:#000000">). So I'll slice the...

Saw this the other week. Absolute genius. To be fair, I bet his 'arrogance' pays off when dealing with small business/clients! He must race through projects because nobody is brave enough to question him.

Hi Tim. It makes a difference when you need to start linking individual parts of an email. You can't use image maps when coding emails as Outlook 2007 doesn't like them (something to do with breaking lines of code on to a new line and messing up the links). And you'll miss a load of mobile...

Thanks for your reply Sunburn. It's a little depressing isn't it? Slap a massive image in the centre of the email, throw in a little bit of unsubscribe text and a disclaimer to fool the spam filters and the open rates are higher. It's interesting that you mention unsubscribes went up though. I...

Hi guys. I've spent the last 2 years at my company trying to undo my predeccessor's damage to our email designs. We send out a tremendous amount of newsletters and promotional emails to our database (maximum of around 250,000). They're a loyal bunch and do respond well to well-targeted email...