Re: HTML email versus PLAIN TEXT email - eCommerce Site
I do a lot of bulk emailing, for large accounts. HTML is the best, as long as you know what can be done, and what cannot.
Getting a nice HTML display with most email clients (including webmails) is a real challenge today, and a good way to make money !
The idea that Oulook will not display your images is of course wrong. There are 2 ways to include images in an HTML email :
1. by placing a link to where the image is hosted. In that case images are hosted on a web server, and only their URLs are included in the email. This is the worst way to do things : your images will not be displayed by most of today's email clients
2. by including your images into the email. With this way, Outlook 2007 and most webmails (gmail, hotmail, yahoo etc.) will display them without asking anything to the recipient.
I read above that you should use a nice CSS to get a nice email. Very funny. Most email clients, today, just don't read CSS files - internal, or external. The only good way to get a very nice HTML email - either in Outlook 2007, Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo - is to use tables only (DIV and CSS are NOT supported), to put your images into the email, and to avoid any <link > to any CSS, external OR internal.
And it works !
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