Category / Markup

Getting HTML newsletters right

For a long time I was wary of designing email newsletters. I had read how difficult it was to construct an HTML newsletter that displayed as intended in all the popular email clients. I had heard about the horrors of creating layouts using tables. I had been warned about the perils of using CSS. But this year I have had several clients request that I design email newsletters for them, and had no choice but to school myself in the arcane art of HTML email design.

Image source swapping, CSS, and Safari

Last week I was putting the finishing touches on a small website I created for a friend. Specifically, I was jazzing up the image gallery with an ‘Image loading’ animation, so that visitors knew to hang around while a new image loaded. In the process I made an interesting discovery about the way Safari (Safari 1.2 at any rate) handles javascript image source swapping.