I hear "Hotmail, yahoo, and most web mails tend to strip <head> so you need to use inline styles" all the time, however, it's not entirely true. I don't use inline styles on my e-mails and they work just fine.
I create HTML e-mails as full-blown table-based HTML pages with a style block in the header. They have all worked in Hotmail and Yahoo. I don't know how or why, but they do. Things that don't work (or haven't in the past) are linked style sheets and positioning (hence the simple table-based layout). A couple of other tips that I use: 1) Always create a good text version of the email. The vendor we use will autoconvert the HTML to text, but it's pretty bad. I use NoteTab Light - it has a great HTML > text converter. 2) Always include a link to an online HTML version. I put this in the HTML and text versions. This is so that if anyone has problems reading the message, they should be able to get to a clean version. (Like any readers on Mac using Outlook. It accepts the HTML version, but changes it to RTF sans images and active links. Really quiet annoying.) Anyway, I'm not saying that the advice about Hotmail and Yahoo isn't valid, just that you should do some testing and see what kind of coding works and what doesn't. I have seen the truncated headers, but I've also seen Yahoo drop the full HTML, header and all, into the mail frame. (NOTE: I haven't tested in Gmail, but I just got an account so I'll see how that works.) Tim www.tjameswhite.com ~ Tim www.tjameswhite.com Get Firefox! http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=12227&t=1 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
