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This book comes free with our HTML Email class
HTML email has become a staple of communication. Everyone can benefit from sending HTML email, from large corporations to small businesses and freelancers. Give your emails some personality and life! This book will cover building a simple one-time email, and a weekly newsletter format. You'll learn how to layout emails using tables (for better compatability with email clients), apply email-friendly CSS, fix various email client issues, and more.
Includes Downloadable Class Files (works on Mac & PC)
ISBN: 978-1-934624-47-0
Setup & Introduction
Downloading the Class Files
Before You Begin
- Popular email clients
- Recommended software
Section 1
Setting Up: Do This Before Other Exercises!
- Setting up your class files
Simple Layout
- Working with tables
- Centering the email
- Text styling with inline CSS
- Adding a border
- Closing the gap below images
eNewsletter Layout
- Nesting tables for a more complex layout
- Non-centered columns
Styling Content
- Email-friendly CSS
- Streamlining your workflow with embedded CSS
- Closing the gap below images
Section 2
Adding More Content
- Creating new events
- HTML attributes vs. CSS rules
- Adding a footer
- Setting a background color
Adding Links
- Coding links to open in a new tab or window
- Converting links & image paths to absolute URLs
- Styling links
Best Practices: Alt Text & Preheader
- Adding alt text
- Styling alt text
- Adding a preheader message
- Improving your open rate
Sending Tests & Email Fixes
- Using an inlining tool to convert embedded CSS
- Testing in various email clients
- Fixes for Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, iOS Mail, & Outlook 2007/2010
Bonus Material
Creating a Table of Contents
- Making a table of contents
- Named anchors
Creating & Naming Slices in Photoshop
- Slicing a Photoshop file
- Naming slices
- Adding alt text
- Adding link URLs
Optimizing & Exporting HTML
- Optimizing slices as GIF, PNG, or JPEG
- Exporting HTML & images