Hi Naveen, Unfortunately, HTML emails offer very little support for background images. Outlook 2007 doesn’t render them at all, I think some of the major webmail clients do, but gmail and Windows Live mail do not. It is very frustrating but the more you do it and realize what is possible you know where you can be creative, etc. All text has to be on flat background colours (background colours are fine). Think in terms of tables, and think HTML 1.0, <font face> tags and all. It goes against everything we talk about on this list, but its just the way it is.
Visit this link: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2006/03/a_guide_to_css_1.html Ive printed it out and keep a copy by my desk. If it’s not too late change the design, if all else fails then take the hit and make it one (or a few) huge images (text and all). It’s dirty, but you’ll get it out the door and you’ll know for next time. Cheers, Tim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jermayn Parker Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 5:25 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] background images in HTML emails.. im no expert in html emails but of the ones i do get how many actually use background images? I do not think html emails actually should use background images. >>> "Naveen Bhaskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20/03/2008 3:11:48 pm >>> Structure is fine... but I am worried about the background images.... since the text is localized I cant use an image with text . I have to use background image and text about that... any solution? regards navii On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Jermayn Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: in regards to html emails.. use tables for structure. >>> "Naveen Bhaskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 20/03/2008 2:53:11 pm >>> Hi... anybody can tell me.. how to use background images in html emails. 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