Writing code for HTML email newsletters is much more challenging than it sounds. While most web based email clients support HTML emails fully, many software based email clients render things differently. For example, older versions of Microsoft Outlook use Microsoft Word to render the email and has caused me many headaches. Because Word is a word processing program, it tries to render the HTML code as it would look in a print preview. Another challenge with HTML email is that many email clients don't recognize the tag, where CSS is usually placed to style the page, so most of the styling has to be done inline. This generates a lot of code that is often hard to decipher where a particular section ends and the next begins, no matter how well-formatted the code may be. Tables are also used as a means to format HTML email, often nested within many other tables. It is very easy to break the formatting of an HTML email by simply being in the wrong or .

I am proud to say that my time at Image Management has made me very proficient in HTML email. I can often turn one around in a few hours. Below is a list of links to the HTML email newsletters I have created.