This guide will tell you exactly what HTML emails are, how to make them and how to design your HTML emails.

What are HTML emails?

HTML emails are emails send with mark-up. Most of the time, an email just contains letters and words to bring over a message to the recipient. It doesn’t need any fancy colors or tables. HTML emails can be used to make the user experience more entertaining and can be used to focus the visitors’ attention to the most important parts.
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Original article by Stefan Vervoort

As you might know, Internet Explorer 6 isn’t the most modern browser out there. In fact, it is almost 8 years old, but many people are still using this un-secure access to the web. Because of this fact, webdesigners still have to worry about how their work looks in Internet Explorer 6.

When CSS Frameworks & Templates came around, some layout problems have been fixed, but definitely not all. These problems can usually be solved via normal CSS, but sometimes it is better to only display some (style)information to Internet Explorer users only.
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Original article by Jeffrey Zeldman
You’ve done all the right stuff, but your site doesn’t look or work as it should in the latest browsers.

You’ve written valid XHTML and CSS. You’ve used the W3C standard Document Object Model (DOM) to manipulate dynamic page elements. Yet, in browsers designed to support these very standards, your site is failing. A faulty DOCTYPE is likely to blame.

This little article will provide you with DOCTYPEs that work, and explain the practical, real–world effect of these seemingly abstract tags.

WHY A DOCTYPE?

Per HTML and XHTML standards, a DOCTYPE (short for “document type declaration”) informs the validator which version of (X)HTML you’re using, and must appear at the very top of every web page. DOCTYPEs are a key component of compliant web pages: your markup and CSS won’t validate without them. (continue reading…)