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by ludwigvan 4949 days ago
Here are some resources I have found useful regarding email newsletters. Some of these seem to have some nice advice about how to test, how to aid user interaction too:

- http://www.htmlemailgallery.com/

- http://litmus.com/blog/

- http://blog.mailchimp.com/

- http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/tips-resources

- http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

- http://www.emailology.org/

- http://www.emailonacid.com/blog

- http://directmailmac.com/

Basically, avoid floats, use tables, use inline styles.

Also, on OS X, if you can save the source of email newsletters sent to you as an html file (Cmd-Opt-U -- select the html portion), edit it to your liking, open it in Safari, then Cmd-I Cmd-Shift-T (Format - Make Rich Text if plain text is default) to send it as an unmodified HTML email from Mail app.

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> Basically, avoid floats, use tables, use inline styles.

Yeah, that's what I was finding too -- and that advice is pretty much incompatible with the "responsive email templates" offered in the OP, no? That's what I'm wondering about.