Creating HTML email in Outlook

[chuckdesign]

I'm trying to create an HTML email for a client. (I know all the pitfalls of HTML emails... but this is what my boss says I have to do.) I have created an HTML page in Dreamweaver and it displays beautifully in every browser. When I copy and paste it into Outlook, however, the tables all blow apart and nothing lines up. (It seems to be worse in Outlook 2003 than it is in Outlook 2000. It looks OK if I create it in Outlook Express 6; but when my client forwards it to her boss using regular Outlook, the tables come unraveled again.)

Can anyone recommend the best way to keep tables looking good when building HTML emails in Outlook? Thanks!!!! I'm on a tight deadline!!!

-- Chuckdesign

 

[elmurado]

try this

http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/html.htm

 

[chuckdesign]

Thanks, elmurado. That's a great resource, and I was able to send them flawlessly using Outlook 2000! Unfortunately, when you try to forward those emails using Outlook 2003, the tables still expand to fill the window, and everything falls to pieces. I talked to a colleague, and the same thing happened to him.

Does anybody have any silver bullet for dealing with Outlook 2003 in an XP environment?

Thanks.


-- Chuckdesign