html email / mailshots do's & donts

[Mance]

More and more clients are requesting html email newsletters be sent
monthly or weekly... Now I know the gripes with html emails and iv
advised them against it but they're set on the idea. -so better i do it
than them approacing someone else.

What are the do's and donts regarding html mailshots?

example... tables, styles, image maps not all supported

Are there any standards at all or does every email client parse the html
emails differently?

Some clients are willing to dish out for a proper web-based email
subscriber system, but others simply forward the final html email draft
from me to their recipient group, which sometimes causes the html to go
bonkers!

I can supply them with the html to be pasted into the composed email
source, but as far as i know only outlook express support this.

yadda yadda any help would be appreciated
ta!

 

[Hywel Jenkins]

More and more clients are requesting html email newsletters be sent
monthly or weekly... Now I know the gripes with html emails and iv
advised them against it but they're set on the idea. -so better i do it
than them approacing someone else.

What are the do's and donts regarding html mailshots?

Don't. Plaintext with a link.

 

[sagejoshua]

Don't. Plaintext with a link.

Are they really that bad? What kind of issues arise from sending html
newsletters?

The reason that I ask is that I maintain a few real estate pages, and
our mailing list of new listings is sent out in html. I use the "send
both html and plain text" feature of Thunderbird. It seems to me that
people with html capable readers get the html version, and those with
text-only readers get the plain-text. Am I missing something?

-Josh

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

... and those with text-only readers get the plain-text. Am I missing
something?

Missing the possibility that those clients of yours will simply bin all
mail with HTML parts. That's how most all spam comes, so it is becoming
popular to do that.

 

[sagejoshua]

Missing the possibility that those clients of yours will simply bin all
mail with HTML parts. That's how most all spam comes, so it is becoming
popular to do that.

ahh so. good point.

 

[Neredbojias]

With neither quill nor qualm, sagejoshua quothed:

ahh so. good point.

Yes, I thought as much... Your name looked Japanese. Nice English,
dude-sahn.

 

[sagejoshua]

Yes, I thought as much... Your name looked Japanese. Nice English,
dude-sahn.

Ah yes, my western friend. I come from a long line of sagejoshuas; any
weakness of our craft, from not closing tags to declaring wrong
doctypes, calls for instant seppuku. Gichin Funokoshi taught my
grandfather the mysteries of the punchcard.

-sagejoshua

 

[Neredbojias]

With neither quill nor qualm, sagejoshua quothed:

Ah yes, my western friend. I come from a long line of sagejoshuas; any
weakness of our craft, from not closing tags to declaring wrong
doctypes, calls for instant seppuku. Gichin Funokoshi taught my
grandfather the mysteries of the punchcard.

-sagejoshua

Wow, you really "speak" English well. Btw, do you pronounce your name
saggy-joe-SHOE-az or saga-JOS-who-ass? One time I had Sukiyaki but
thought it was so yucky I almost committed hari kari, ha ha.

Anyway, my pagoda is your pagoda. Sighunara, and don't eat too much
teriyaki.