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A designer coded an html template using CSS best practices. I want to use this template as an email newsletter template, but I've heard people say hotmail, yahoo and gmail offer limited support for CSS.
Am I supposed to re-code these templates using table layouts and font tags?
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HTML5. HTML5—more specifically, HTML5. 2—is the latest version of Hypertext Markup Language currently used in HTML documents, including emails.
HTML email design lets you create great looking emails with a lot of visual appeal. Instead of using plain text, you can use HTML email design to display a variety of colors, images, backgrounds, and fonts. With HTML email design, you have the creative freedom to help get your message across more effectively.
Yes you can. However you have to keep in mind that few email clients respect css standards. Just stick to basic css properties like margin and padding , etc., and it should all be fine. Also you can style your html elements inline ( <div style=""> ) though it's not an elegant solution.
The short answer is Yes.
You're going to get the best compatibility across webmail accounts & email clients by using the most basic and dumbed down HTML possible.
I usually test on a minimum of the following:
You're usually in pretty good shape if you get something that shows up properly on all of those.
We use Exact Target and they have an HTML preview feature but it's not perfect. I've run into a lot of situations where an email looked good in the preview but still came through broken in Outlook 2007.
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Mark above said everything that you need to do to develop email templates (it's the 90's all over again), but I wanted to add one last thing:
http://www.email-standards.org/ is a great resource to see how different email clients interpret HTML and CSS.
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