Cross platform HTML Email Questions

Hello

I create new html e-mails to in dreamweaver for use in a service like constant contact. The service I use is COMF5. They have a rudimentary (but nice) WSYIWYG Editor so that I'm him giving a whirlwind in Dreamweaver.

First of all, I made the mistake of creating a beautiful in CSS, pasted file in the editor and found some divs and info floating around.

I just found an article by an adobe pro on this operation and ZOMG, that help a lot. Here's what I think I underatand and my question:

1. all is tables, including the background that is created at 98%.

2. the Organization must be nested tables.

3 attributes are set in the table by the use of the property bar and not to include the creation of css rules.

4. the only exception is created within the limits of the table of inline styles.

5 rule is to have no CSS sitting at the top of the code in the important document.

My big question at the present time, this is how I can code links to be other than blue and underlined? I would use CSS to do this on my pages.

Thanks in advance of ain for more insight!

Rob

For the HTML e-mail messages only, you can set styles in thetag and it will get picked up by most e-mail clients.

The tables are very good. But I do not recommend the complex nested tables.  You want to keep things as simple as possible.

CSS Inline rules are perfectly OK.   Background (CSS or HTML) are not supported in Outlook 2007.

E-mail HTML & Newsletter explosions

http://ALT-Web.com/articles/HTML-emails.shtml

Creating cross-client HTML emails

http://www.Adobe.com/devnet/Dreamweaver/articles/html_emails.html

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