Best Practices for Coding HTML Emails

Design Tips for Email Newsletters  - The big things to look out for when designing or coding an email.

• Background Images don't work for email clients, you may use a solid background color behind live text.
• Image Maps cannot be used and are not compatible with many email clients
• Width 600px
• all images need style="display:block" for gmail and some other web based clients.
• No Javascript EVER
• Inline CSS only and must be basic things like fonts, colors, background colors etc CSS2&3 styles do not apply and cause problems

To be compatible with as many email clients as possible the design created will be sliced and built in HTML table tags. You need to design the html for 10 years ago, yep email clients are old and janky and love nested tables and hate divs and CSS.

Export Lists from Outlook to csv

Open up the contacts
Click to highlight a list
Choose File->Save As
Change the Save As Type to "Text Only .txt"

Save the file
Then open excel
Next goto File->Open Choose your file

You should get a popup "Text Import Wizard" asking you about delimited, just leave the default.
- Choose Next
- make sure Tab is checked
- Click Finish

Next choose File->Save As
Save your file as a csv