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kimson
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Royal Horsing Ground
Insane since: Jan 2005

 posted posted 05-26-2006 11:37

I apologise in advance for the topic of this thread...

But I have been asked to produce email signatures in Outlook for the company I work for; so I did an HTML page with styles embedded and it worked fine on my computer. But when I sent it to my boss to use, I was gutted but not surprised to get his answer saying that it didn't quite look formatted. At all.

So does anyone has some experience on how to make a simple HTML page work properly as an email signature? I Googled the stuff but couldn't find anything relevant. I'm not talking about much here, it's a logo on the left hand side with 4 lines of text aligned on its right...

Thanks for your help...
Blaise
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: London
Insane since: Jun 2003

 posted posted 05-26-2006 11:58

Unfortunatly I've had some experience making html emails, and there's a few resources out there that can help you.

The primary resource I found was an article over at good ol' A List Apart. It covers most things, but I'll add a few.

Don't use any of the following tags, <html>, <head>, <body>. they are already included in most emails when opened, especially if you are using a web-based email client.

You can use divs, but for layout tables are more reliable.

Put all styles inline using the style="" attribute, don't link to external stylesheets (You can't put them in the head anyway)

Externally linked images are naturally ok.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
kimson
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Royal Horsing Ground
Insane since: Jan 2005

 posted posted 05-26-2006 12:06

Yes, it does help a lot, thanks Blaise! These are the tips I was looking for.

Cheers
NoJive
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Land of one Headlight on.
Insane since: May 2001

 posted posted 05-26-2006 14:23

I thought html email was pretty much a no no... as outlined here

Some interesting links at the bottom of that page.
kimson
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Royal Horsing Ground
Insane since: Jan 2005

 posted posted 05-26-2006 14:44

Yes, good point... I'll try to think of a way of presenting this to my boss without getting fired!



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