A designer coded an html template using CSS best practices. But many webmail clients supports only HTML 4.0 markups, which means I must re-code these templates using table layouts and font tags.
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HTML Email Templates - Use HTML 4.0 for Newsletters
For best compatibility across webmail accounts & email clients it’s best to use HTML 4.0 markups. Here are some tips to follow:
- Do not use CSS files or style tags
- Use tables for positioning and layouts and specify width and height values
- Use font tags to control appearance of text
- Specify height and width on images so when images are blocked, other elements are still in position
Test with the following email clients:
- Outlook 2003
- Outlook 2007
- Thunderbird
- Entourage (OSX version of Outlook)
- Gmail
- Hotmail
- Yahoo Mail
If you can get the email template to work on all these clients, then you should be in good shape.