Soldato
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Ok, so being pretty PC literate I have a guy who I do a lot of random tech work for, as long as it runs on electricity, he asks me to do it.
He asked me yesterday to put together an html e-mail which he can use as a default e-mail template. He wants to be able to click new mail and then happily type in the content and hit send and this e-mail will have his company header at the top and a nice footer etc.
He wants something very similar to what Apple send out as receipts, so margins either side that scale to the window, keeping the content central.
I've done a fair bit of research on this but not getting very far with it, I thought this would be easy!
I know I would have to use tables and have coded the html and inline css, but how do mail clients use it as a template and how do you specify where you want the user content to go?
I'm thinking perhaps these are only used more as mail shots where they are constructed for a specific purpose and then sent out rather then just for standard every day e-mails, is that the case?
He asked me yesterday to put together an html e-mail which he can use as a default e-mail template. He wants to be able to click new mail and then happily type in the content and hit send and this e-mail will have his company header at the top and a nice footer etc.
He wants something very similar to what Apple send out as receipts, so margins either side that scale to the window, keeping the content central.
I've done a fair bit of research on this but not getting very far with it, I thought this would be easy!
I know I would have to use tables and have coded the html and inline css, but how do mail clients use it as a template and how do you specify where you want the user content to go?
I'm thinking perhaps these are only used more as mail shots where they are constructed for a specific purpose and then sent out rather then just for standard every day e-mails, is that the case?