Tag Archives: Email Standards Project

The Outlook for Microsoft’s HTML Email Standards in 2010 is Gloomy

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Tom O'Leary

Email marketers routinely have a difficult time getting their carefully crafted HTML emails to look right in Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. This is largely due to Microsoft using MS Word as their benchmark for HTML design. Of course, most … Continue reading →

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How to Get HTML Email To Look Good in All Email Clients

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Tom O'Leary

This is the billion dollar question. As we’ve discussed here in the past, there are no standards for HTML email. So what looks good in one client (Yahoo) might look like [click] in another (Outlook 2007). Some email marketers, in … Continue reading →

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HTML Email Design and Rendering Standards

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Tom O'Leary

Although it isn’t really a laughing matter if you’re trying to get a nicely formatted HTML email to render successfully across various email clients; here’s a light view of what email marketers are up against today without HTML email standards … Continue reading →

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A Plea to Gmail (and other email client developers)

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Tom O'Leary

The Email Standards Project is working hard with email client developers and the design community at large to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. Email marketers understand how difficult it is to get their lovely HTML messages to … Continue reading →