HTML ( fancy ) emails
Ok folks I know this is a topic of love v hate personally I hate HTML ( fancy ) emails.
One of my customers is adamant they want to use them in house for newsletters etc.
So the least I can do is make sure what they use to produce them has a reasonable chance of producing accessible ones.
They have a design team who can create the templates so I need a content tool that will allow a code free content adding environment to the HTML templates. No I don't want a CMS just an easy to use content adding tool.
ps they currently struggle with Frontpage ( YUK ) but want to add more users.
Does anybody have any recommendations?
Cheers.
If it can go wrong it will. So don't worry about it.
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Standards compliance is so low in e-mail clients that you're doomed to low quality HTML. Put a link at the very start pointing to an online version and make that accessible. It's about the best which can be done for now.
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I agree with you regrettably my boss won't accept that or attaching a pdf as an option....... 
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| AlunD wrote: |
| I agree with you regrettably my boss won't accept that or attaching a pdf as an option....... |
Cerbera wasn't offering you an option, as such. He was telling you how things are.
Currently, assuming your boss wants the emails to actually be rendered in a readable condition, you're stuck using simple, non-nested, tables-based layouts for HTML email, using inline CSS with only a portion of properties available or effective.
If your boss won't accept that, then he's not accepting reality.
Fwiw, MailChimp.com : Designing and Coding HTML Email guides
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Send your boss (and other interested staff) an e-mail which uses well-crafted HTML with CSS layout, putting the CSS in a <style> element. They can see how well it's supported for themselves.
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Cheers guys..............If it can go wrong it will. So don't worry about it.
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We have developed a tool on similar grounds.
Please have a look at Contrich
It is an online collaboration tool with features like inline content editing, automatic page verification, content review and much more built into it.
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