Comments on: The Holy Mail http://commadot.com/the-holy-mail/ Started in 1996, Glen Lipka has been been randomly publishing about User Experience, Technology, Human Psychology and other subjects. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:41:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha By: Adam http://commadot.com/the-holy-mail/#comment-10399 Adam Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:15:08 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=624#comment-10399 We have had similar issue's with our templates over at <a href="www.e-shotuk.co.uk" rel="nofollow">www.e-shotuk.co.uk</a>. We invested alot of time and money to get ours to a point where they work in as many e-mail readers as possible. You've got my sympathy though with all the testing. Very time consuming. We have had similar issue’s with our templates over at http://www.e-shotuk.co.uk. We invested alot of time and money to get ours to a point where they work in as many e-mail readers as possible. You’ve got my sympathy though with all the testing. Very time consuming.

]]> By: Online Marketing Blog » Blog Archive » 42 HTML email design resources http://commadot.com/the-holy-mail/#comment-10390 Online Marketing Blog » Blog Archive » 42 HTML email design resources Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:36:44 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=624#comment-10390 [...] The Holy Mail: Glen Lipka’s universal template, which also has an update. [...] [...] The Holy Mail: Glen Lipka’s universal template, which also has an update. [...]

]]> By: Cross-client HTML Email v2 | commadot.com http://commadot.com/the-holy-mail/#comment-10263 Cross-client HTML Email v2 | commadot.com Fri, 16 May 2008 17:02:16 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=624#comment-10263 [...] As previously posted 6 months ago, I had been working on a solid design for HTML emails that would work in every client.  The design of that email worked pretty well.  However, since then, I kept getting asked to do the impossible.  Rounded corners, curved strokes and shadows.  As mentioned, Outlook 2007 doesn’t support positioning and doesn’t support background-images.  This combination makes it really really hard to create a decent design. [...] [...] As previously posted 6 months ago, I had been working on a solid design for HTML emails that would work in every client.  The design of that email worked pretty well.  However, since then, I kept getting asked to do the impossible.  Rounded corners, curved strokes and shadows.  As mentioned, Outlook 2007 doesn’t support positioning and doesn’t support background-images.  This combination makes it really really hard to create a decent design. [...]

]]> By: ??? » 2007?9??? http://commadot.com/the-holy-mail/#comment-2543 ??? » 2007?9??? Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:55:32 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=624#comment-2543 [...] The Holy Mail Recently newsletter design is becoming more and more important. There is a showcase of newsletter-designs and professional solutions for testing newsletter-designs on cross-browser-compatibility. This article present a bulletproof template for HTML-E-Mails, which are displayed identically among popular mail-clients and services such as Gmail, Outlook 2007, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Thunderbird, iPhone etc. [...] [...] The Holy Mail Recently newsletter design is becoming more and more important. There is a showcase of newsletter-designs and professional solutions for testing newsletter-designs on cross-browser-compatibility. This article present a bulletproof template for HTML-E-Mails, which are displayed identically among popular mail-clients and services such as Gmail, Outlook 2007, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Thunderbird, iPhone etc. [...]

]]> By: Janice Tocher http://commadot.com/the-holy-mail/#comment-2482 Janice Tocher Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:10:15 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=624#comment-2482 A follow-up on this... *if* you use your lovely html template to send a message through Outlook and the 'use MS Word for editing email' option is turned *on*, then do NOT use px to define widths or font-size. Use pt instead. Thanks Glen for your help on this! A follow-up on this… *if* you use your lovely html template to send a message through Outlook and the ‘use MS Word for editing email’ option is turned *on*, then do NOT use px to define widths or font-size. Use pt instead.
Thanks Glen for your help on this!

]]> By: Glen Lipka http://commadot.com/the-holy-mail/#comment-2432 Glen Lipka Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:04:00 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=624#comment-2432 When you say "Installs the template", I am not sure what you mean. What email program does she use? What is her process for installing the template? How is it different than your process, where it works? I haven't actually tried to install it as a "template" in Outlook. I have been using it on the server of our application to send emails. You can email me at glen()kokopop.com to troubleshoot. Send me the working and the non-working. When you say “Installs the template”, I am not sure what you mean. What email program does she use? What is her process for installing the template? How is it different than your process, where it works?

I haven’t actually tried to install it as a “template” in Outlook. I have been using it on the server of our application to send emails. You can email me at glen()kokopop.com to troubleshoot. Send me the working and the non-working.

]]> By: Janice Tocher http://commadot.com/the-holy-mail/#comment-2431 Janice Tocher Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:54:10 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=624#comment-2431 I designed an email template for a client based on this info. It looks groovy cool coming from my machine. However, when she installs the template and brings it up, MS Word changes all the font sizes to a smaller size than defined in the inline styles. Of course she could turn off the 'use MS Word for editing email' option when using this template but that seems to be a bit of a pain. Has anyone else had similar issues? AND most important, do you have a solution? I designed an email template for a client based on this info. It looks groovy cool coming from my machine. However, when she installs the template and brings it up, MS Word changes all the font sizes to a smaller size than defined in the inline styles. Of course she could turn off the ‘use MS Word for editing email’ option when using this template but that seems to be a bit of a pain.
Has anyone else had similar issues? AND most important, do you have a solution?

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]]> By: Funky Penguin News » Blog Archive » Best of September 2007 http://commadot.com/the-holy-mail/#comment-952 Funky Penguin News » Blog Archive » Best of September 2007 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:53:05 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=624#comment-952 [...] The Holy MailRecently newsletter design is becoming more and more important. There is a showcase of newsletter-designs and professional solutions for testing newsletter-designs on cross-browser-compatibility. This article present a bulletproof template for HTML-E-Mails, which are displayed identically among popular mail-clients and services such as Gmail, Outlook 2007, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Thunderbird, iPhone etc. [...] [...] The Holy MailRecently newsletter design is becoming more and more important. There is a showcase of newsletter-designs and professional solutions for testing newsletter-designs on cross-browser-compatibility. This article present a bulletproof template for HTML-E-Mails, which are displayed identically among popular mail-clients and services such as Gmail, Outlook 2007, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Thunderbird, iPhone etc. [...]

]]> By: stu foster http://commadot.com/the-holy-mail/#comment-910 stu foster Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:04:04 +0000 http://commadot.com/?p=624#comment-910 mate. you're a legend. I often thought of doing this myself but always gave up when i thought of all the pain i would experience. props to you for taking the pain for all of us! mate. you’re a legend. I often thought of doing this myself but always gave up when i thought of all the pain i would experience. props to you for taking the pain for all of us!

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