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html email creation

         

nalin

3:42 am on Jun 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

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The short story is I am unable to find solid resources about composing html based emails - I have a wc3 validated template which works flawlessly in a brower but when mailed via our website backend (using approprite mime type), breaks down considerably. If anyone has a good tutorial on how to develop html emails or any quirks thereof it would be much appreciated.

In particular the mail in question uses absolute graphics and css references, and layout is table based. Layout seems to be stretched vertically ~300% with a number of different mail clients on differnet platforms.

The longer story (included to put my question into context and avoid any questing of my motives or what not, as well as to avoid some bitter argument over why use images and they wont work with outlook 2003 etc.):

Our site has a form functionaliy that allows us to quote customers a set of widgets that fits their needs, this is a very necessary part of our business model.

To date the quote has been accomplished by the customer filling out said form and submitting it, this is emailed by the site to a sales manager who distributes it to a sales team member. The sale team member modifies one of 10 excel spreadsheets, copies this into outlook, and with the advent of signatures conjours up some godawful outlook catastrophe, filled with information dated six months, generally unpleasing graphics, and more fonts then I feel comfortable disclosing.

What I wish to accomplish is a web based form that shortens and professionalizes this process, which has brought about a unique dilimma, I need an email sent via our site in response to form input.

Any help would be most appreciated.