E-Newsletter Design

Attached is my current e-newsletter that I want replaced with a new and better design. It MUST adhere to these guidelines, so that it is deliverable in ALL email systems - outlook, gmail, aol, yahoo, hotmail, msn etc.... Coding Your HTML Emails: Fundamental Principles 1. Images should be posted on your publicly accessible web server. In your code, use absolute paths to point to them. Images will be posted on my public-accessible web server. 2. TABLES and [login to view URL] are your friend. Keep it simple, because email programs use different HTML rendering engines. Some of them use Internet Explorer, Firefox, or in the case of Outlook 2007, Microsoft Word (what a headache!). Some of them use their own proprietary renderers (Lotus used to do that, which is why you'll find lots of old rants on out there about Lotus and HTML email problems). 3. Email Templet should be 600 pixels wide & NO more. 4. You will need to test how it renders in Outlook, Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Eudora, Lotus, Gmail, Yahoo!Mail, AOL, AOL Web, Hotmail, MSN, Comcast, Earthlink, and on and on and on. AGAIN keep it simple. TABLES. 600 pixels wide max. 5. Webmail services are deceptively tricky. Email services that are browser-based, like Gmail, Yahoo!Mail, Hotmail, etc., will strip out your DOCTYPE, BODY, and HEAD tags. Makes sense---they don't want your code to potentially override theirs. Anything you'd normally code inside those tags (bgcolors, embedded CSS, JavaScript, background music files, etc) will also get stripped. 6. NO CSS because 99% of your CSS won't work (especially not in the browser-based email services like Gmail, Yahoo!Mail, etc.). That means no CSS-positioning, DIVs, etc. When your email is opened in Gmail, for example, the CSS in your HTML email could potentially override the CSS on the rest of their page. So they disable a lot of it. Inline CSS is safer, and plain-old FONT tags are safest (code like it's 1996, remember?). Or check out MailChimp's CSS inliner tool.