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How to Add Background Images to Email Newsletters

TweetWhen Microsoft decided to use its older HTML rendering software from Word in Outlook, as the means to display HTML email, some key HTML email functionality disappeared. In particular, Outlook 2007... 
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How To Code HTML Email Newsletters (All New Version)

Tweet My How to Code HTML Email Newsletters presentation is embedded below. My presentation also included a one-sheet with resources for coding HTML email newsletters.Please note a version of this article... 
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Outlook is Broken, Let’s Fix It

Tweet“Microsoft have confirmed they plan on using the Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010. This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout,... 
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View Your Web Pages in Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer Browsers

Tweet“How many times have you had to debug your web pages on virtual or multiple machines running different versions of Internet Explorer? Or had to wait for a slow web service to return renderings... 
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Object Oriented Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Tweet“How do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? Nicole first presented Object Oriented CSS at Web Directions North in Denver. Since then, the response has been overwhelming.... 
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How to Deal with Internet Explorer 6 (IE 6)

Tweet“Completely ignoring a browser in terms of CSS is a wonderfully freeing thing. It certainly can’t be done on every site. The important thing to remember is that it’s a site’s statistics... 
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Coding Sexy CSS Stylesheets

Tweet“While CSS can be used to create sexy websites, writing CSS can actually be an artform by itself. The way in which CSS is created, structured, and maintained can be a thing of beauty.” From... 
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Recreating the Button

Tweet“These buttons just launched in Gmail yesterday, and they’ve been in Google Reader for two months now. The buttons are designed to look very similar to basic HTML input buttons. But they can... 
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Better Image Caching with CSS

Tweet“These caching techniques have evolved in terms of effectiveness and accuracy, but may be improved further to allow for greater cross-browser functionality. In this post, I share a “CSS-only”... 
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Creating Professional Aligned Forms with CSS

Tweet“In most HTML forums, the user will have text to describe the input field, followed by the field itself. If you have more than one input field then there can be issues with the input boxes where... 
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How to Target CSS Styles to Internet Explorer 6 and IE7

TweetThis article has been updated on January 30, 2009. Please see the bottom of this article for the gory details. Today, for the umpteenth time in the past month, I found myself coding a design to work... 
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Martian Headsets: Internet Explorer 8 and the Problem of Web Standards

Tweet“If you’ve ever visited the ultra-orthodox Jewish communities of Jerusalem, all of whom agree in complete and utter adherence to every iota of Jewish law, you will discover that despite... 
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta Released for Testing

Tweet“The MIX 2008 conference is this week and Microsoft is showing off some of their latest tools. One of these is the much anticipated and discussed Internet Explorer 8 browser. It’s important... 
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CSS Princess: Showcase Gallery for Women Web Designers

Tweet“CSS Princess is a project with the main idea of promoting and supporting beautiful and interesting css sites made by women. We all know that female designers have special sensibility and creativity,... 
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Nifty Navigation with CSS

Tweet“Unless you limit yourself to one-page web sites, you’ll need to design navigation. In fact, navigation is among the most important parts of any web design, and requires a great deal of... 
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Using Print Stylesheets

TweetFound an article, Using Print Stylesheets that has some good resources on how to code CSS layouts so they convert well to printed pages. I typically never do the print stylesheet which lets the page... 
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Fixing Your Website Designs For Internet Explorer 7

Tweet“It’s the day we’ve all been waiting for! After five years without changes to the rendering engine that defines (and limits) what the Web can do, Microsoft has released IE7 Beta... 
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How To Do Basic Search Engine Optimization for Web Pages

TweetWhen a prospect or customer uses Google to find a product or service you offer, ideally you want your web pages to appear in the top 10 search results. There are many excellent articles online that... 
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How HTML Code Affects E-Mail Deliverability

Tweet“A common e-mail marketing misconception is e-mail is filtered because it contains words such as “free” in the subject line or body. By itself, that won’t get your e-mail filtered.... 
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Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

Tweet“Desktop applications have a richness and responsiveness that has seemed out of reach on the Web. The same simplicity that enabled the Web’s rapid proliferation also creates a gap between... 
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