Props to the zurb team for referencing Asimov. (Elijah Bailey was the detective protagonist in the fantastic early Robot series.)
Show HN: Responsive Email Templates
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#22go Zurb! I use Foundation http://foundation.zurb.com/ , playground's joyride and icon fonts, I hope these email templates are as good :)
Thanks for the kudos! Our team has been hard at work on these, and are so excited to share them with the community. :)
keep up the good work. btw you forgot to tweet it on @foundationzurb, only on @zurb.
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#23This came at a perfect time for me as I've spent the last week working on designing newsletter templates.
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#24I am new to having HTML email sent. What do folks do with the large (large in this case anyway) stylesheet, that actually works with actual email clients? Link it with a tag? Plop it all into a tag? (where?) Something else? What are current best practices for sending html email that needs a non-trivial stylesheet like this? Googling around, i'm still left not sure; many pages I find make recommendations that would ma…
I work with HTML emails all day long and it's awful. The short answer is this: remember, it's an email, not a full blown website. You should not have as much CSS as you're describing in your emails to begin with. The more CSS the more chances there are for it to break. Images and tables are the way to go and you'd be surprised at how creative you can get under those constraints and how beautiful the result can be.
Most web based email clients will rip out your so link tags aren't a good idea. You'll need to inline 90%+ of your CSS. I usually create the table layout then add the inline style later. You can use the Mailchimp CSS inliner tool for quicker results.
I usually inline it all and leave some bits in a style tag. That's really the best you can do because of the crazy inconsistencies between email clients. Email clients render HTML and CSS like it's the 90's. Check out Campaign Monitor's blog. They have a big chart that shows you what HTML/CSS is compatible in each client. It's a life saver. I have it posted in my cube and I use it every day.
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#25I will use them as minimalist/simple website templates lol :)
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#27Props to the zurb team for referencing Asimov. (Elijah Bailey was the detective protagonist in the fantastic early Robot series.)
Also the Foundation Series (Hari Seldon).
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#28And what about real e-mail, e.g. text-based? An e-mail is not a webpage, for me it’s nonsense to put HTML in it.
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#29According to campaign monitor(http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-...), that is 15% not tested 'so far'(support dropped?) Is it worth it?
Nonetheless it does look very interesting.
Would be much more convincing if the preview can be sent to an email address though.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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In theory. Not always in practice.
what do you mean? it's all in 'saved'.
btw try https://bitbucket.org/zalew/hackernews if you want to crawl it to save elsewhere.