E-mail templates that looks good everywhere…
I just got a newsletter from Campaign Monitor, if you haven’t heard about them they provide an e-mail newsletter service and are the founders of the Email Standards project that “...works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email...”.
In the newsletter they said that they had updated their collection of free e-mail templates. Since they know what they’re doing, I see no reason not to trust them when they say that they have “...tested them in the major [email] clients...”.
If you have made CSS layouts in e-mail you know what a pain it can be. When you are satisfied with the result you receive a butt-ugly copy of your newsletter from someone using Lotus Notes or Outlook 2007. You can save yourself a lot of hassle by learning from the e-mail pros.
So next time you think of creating a nice CSS layout for an email, why not start with a tested template?
After all, designing for e-mail clients is ten times worse then designing for a few “modern web browsers” due to the extreme difference in CSS support. And if you need some inspiration make sure you check out their design gallery as well…
PS. I first heard about Campaign Monitor from Niels Hartvig of Umbraco since he uses their service for the Umbraco Newsletters.
// ; ) Kalle
