"Web Design and Marketing Solutions for Business Websites"
Styling One of the greatest insults in the modern e-mail era is the disastrous lack of CSS support. What could be a playground for designers has become an abattoir for newsletter design, with e-mail readers mangling elements, ignoring styles, stripping chunks of markup, and forcing the HTML into a nonstandard, bug-prone, lowest common denominator of markup. This is not to say using CSS is out of the question. The tools are limited, and the implementation is hacky at best, heretical at worst. The problems are not discriminating, although web-based clients seem to lag further behind their desktop counterparts. Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and Gmail all interpret code differently. Desktop e-mail clients are more stable, but even some popular ones, like Lotus Notes, remain years behind the curve. To start, many applications completely disregard the contents of the tag, so any metadata, titles, JavaScript, and CSS appearing there will be unapologetically ignored. This means the tag is out of the question. Internal styles can also appear inside the tag, which, under normal circumstances, would invalidate a page and be dismissed as categorically ludicrous.