HTML or Plain Text Emails?

Ryan Carson | The Development, Amigo | Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Dave (our developer) wanted to know if we were going to send out text e-mails when we welcome people to the service or html e-mails? We’ve decided to go with all plain text emails for now. It’s simpler and you know that everyone is going to be able to read them. Obviously text e-mails don’t look as nice as HTML, but it sure makes things simpler, as you don’t have to try to test the HTML e-mails on 50 different e-mail clients (ugh!).

3 Comments »

  1. Though I’m sure you must be acquainted with CampaignMonitor and their very robust guidelines on email formatting.

    Multipart is pretty straightforward to do too. HTML/Text in one.

    Comment by Mark — May 10, 2006 @ 12:49 am

  2. Plain text all the way, baby! HTML is for web sites, innit?

    Comment by Blu_Matt — May 10, 2006 @ 1:10 am

  3. I tend to choose the Plain Text format even when I have a choice of HTML. Easier and quicker to read.

    Comment by Paul Watson — May 12, 2006 @ 2:54 pm

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