Comments on: Use Your Words, Darling http://www.newslettersinfocus.com/33 Free advice for professionals on newsletter design and how to write a newsletter. Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:31:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jessica http://www.newslettersinfocus.com/33#comment-13 Jessica Mon, 14 May 2007 17:58:57 +0000 http://www.newslettersinfocus.com/33#comment-13 There are a lot of email clients in use these days, Meryl–especially when you consider that they’re often different on each platform. That creates a lot of options!

I agree that there’s really no good reason not to have both an HTML and plain text version. Not only do they boost compatibility, but they’re useful in other ways as well (especially with newsletter and article submissions). Plus, it’s so easy to create both that it’s really not a burden.

Thanks for sharing the link to the article. I thought you might also enjoy seeing this piece on the same subject that I wrote back in 2004:
http://www.designdoodles.com/article/50/

Again, thanks so much for weighing in!

All my best,

Jes

]]> By: meryl http://www.newslettersinfocus.com/33#comment-12 meryl Wed, 09 May 2007 17:03:08 +0000 http://www.newslettersinfocus.com/33#comment-12 And there are too many email clients in use today, one of which is the awful Lotus that likes to tear newsletters apart. If possible — offer both HTML and text versions. If not — I shoot for text since you’re less likely to have problems. Also posted this article last year covering this topic:

http://meryl.net/2006/10/31/designing-newsletters-for-all-email-kind-2/

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