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I have to design some HTML emails for my work. It seem obvious that everybody use tables and inline CSS for this. I would use plain text if I would have the choice, but it's not possible in this case.
As a front end developer who know a bit about web standards I'm pretty scary and horrified when I look at some HTML emails: table presentations and inline CSS are enough to demonstrate that this will be a horrible headache to design and maintain.
Do you have experiences with this? What arguments could be valuable to advocate plain text? What are the risks of using standard-maintainable-pretty HTML and CSS and not the horrible-common-way?
Some useful links for better understanding
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-code-html-emails/
http://blog.mailchimp.com/background-images-and-css-in-html-email/
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Closed 10 years ago.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I just got a job developing a site in French. Is there anything I should do or do differently that I wouldn't do if I were coding an English site?
There are a few typographic specialties in French that a well-designed HTML page should handle somehow, such as special spacing rules around punctuation characters. They are somewhat tricky to handle with just HTML and CSS. See my page HTML authoring in French.
I don't think you have anything to worry about with regards design / look n feel.
You'll have a lot to worry about with regards content though.
Date formatting
Currency formats
Thousand separator and other stuff
I'm assuming you aren't saddled with the task of working on the content as well.
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Closed 10 years ago.
we are developing new website and
i know little bit about HTML
so can suggest any solid open-source
tools for good HTML design.
Check about boilerplates in http://www.initializr.com/
It is a good way to start a project and it covers alot about browsers compatibility.
Probably not a place to be asking for recommendations but you should look at responsive CSS frameworks as a good starting point. If you're unfamiliar with CSS then it is something you must learn in order to create responsive designs.
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Closed 10 years ago.
I'd say I have pretty good grasp of core concepts of html/css/jQuery.
But I still have hard time trying to create a web page where it involves a lot of
use of div containers, making menu bars, and similar layouts.
There are some systems to help simplify layout, or at least prototype them. For example, http://960.gs is one that I've started from for many sites.
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I am working in rails, and a looking for some resources to design visually pleasing HTML forms. I can write the CSS, so even examples would be great.
Any recommendations?
There are many resources out there, you can just google for well looking forms or something like this.
There are also javascript libraries which makes customized selects/checkboxes etc -for example a project called uniform - check it out, you might like it. It provides you tools to customize it.
You can try Gravity Forms for WordPress then you never need to hand code the html and it inserts unique id's and matching classes in the HTML. This means the sky is the limit when it comes to styling your form.
If you are not using WordPress, here is a nice tutorial for designing form layouts.
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Is there some sort of HTML designer (WYSIWYG) available that allows me to draw the page and results with a page using DIVs / CSS and not TABLE design?
See drawter.com you can create layout in div css format.
MS Visual Web Developer Express, its free and allows full WYSIWYG and code view HTML/CSS editing for pure (X)HTML or ASP.Net sites.
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Downloads/#Visual_Studio_2010_Express_Downloads
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Express-2010/
I'm not entirely sure of what you are asking of but if you are looking for a wysiwyg(what you see is what you get) editor Adobe Dreamweaver is probably the best but it's rather expensive. There are ton's of free wysiwyg`s however I don't use them so I only know of Dreamweaver.