Philip

I'd definitely suggest breaking that out into multiple tutorials [*]What is CSS and why should I use it? (1-4) [*]The basics of CSS (5- [*]A real world example (9-end)

I just wrote an article that goes into a bit more depth on creating emails. You can find it over here

I frequently create marketing emails, so I can give a few more tips: Keep the design simple, trust me, it'll make your life easier later down the road Use tables (ugh, I know) and inline CSS Don't bother with things like p, h1, h2, etc tags in the table. It'll just complicate your life more and adds no value to the code Don't bother with paddings / margins. You should use spacer images instead (again, ugh) For hotmail & images you'll notice there are probably some spacing issues (extra padding above and below the image). You can easily fix it by doing the following on all images: Before... <td><img src="http://mysite.com/images/logo.jpg" width="100" height="50" alt=""></td> After... <td style="line-height:0;"><img src="http://mysite.com/images/logo.jpg" width="100" height="50" alt="" style="display:block;"></td> Be sure to place height/width attributes on images Do not place height/width attributes on td/tr/tables.. Use inline css height/width. http://premailer.dialect.ca/ is an AMAZING tool. Use it! I can't believe I'm actually referring someone here, but: http://litmus.com is a good tool to use to preview across different email clients. It's a bit pricey if you're a solo developer ($50/month), and to be honest the service isn't terribly reliable - it provides the proper screenshots, but the access to the different email clients is very unstable IMO. If you have any specific questions, or need more tips for certain clients let me know!

It really depends on what your site is (looks like a search engine) and how much traffic you already have going to it. IMO though, you should stick with one of them (probably geedo) and have gedoo redirect to geedo.

I still am a fan of HTML-Kit Tools

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ (HTML-Kit) http://www.chami.com/html-kit/plugins/ (Plugins for HTML-Kit -- very useful :D)