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HTML emails

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    Mike Barram
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If you need to dynamically create HTML emails (say for a new announcements system), the first thing to do is question whether you really need to or if any other alternative will do. This is especially the case if you’re going to give users a WYSIWYG editor to create marked up content.

Some useful resources:

http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/htmlcss-tutorials/say-hello-to-the-html-email-boilerplate/

http://24ways.org/2009/rock-solid-html-emails/

http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/

https://litmus.com/blog/16-tips-troubleshooting-html-email

https://templates.campaignmonitor.com/build/

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

http://premailer.dialect.ca/ – converts CSS to inline styles

https://litmus.com/email-testing – get screenshots of your email in different clients

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