I was dissapointed to see that these email templates don’t work in the major email clients. Gmail for example. The CSS gets ignored by most web clients too.

doesn’t work at all for me
the most clients transform it back to plain text and then they see the html tags

Great, any good free software program to send this templates in mass?
great blog!!

Paul said:

doesn’t work at all for me
the most clients transform it back to plain text and then they see the html tags

Hey Paul,

With Campaign Monitor you can send multipart html and text, so clients that can’t render the html will show the nicely formatted plain text alternative instead.

I solved that css problem:

Converting all divs into tables and insert the css.

Works in Gmail, Hotmail, Outlook, Opera and Thunderbird.

Sry for my bad english. =]

I think HTML email templates must be in HTML 3.2 version with no CSS at all. Use tag options instead of CSS classes.

For example:
Do not use that:
<style>.bg_white { background-color: white; }</style>
<table class=”bg_white”> etc.

Use this:
<table bgcolor=”white”> etc.

For some advanced email clients style rules can be inserted into tag options

For example:
<table bgcolor=”white” style=”background: url(some picture);”> etc.