Archive for the ‘HTML Email’ tag

Most Popular Email Clients – Email Softwares

Statistics on email client popularity or email client market share

Email client popularity reports

As I mentioned in another post HTML Email – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, different email clients may display your HTML email differently. Thus it’s always a good idea to know what people, especially your target viewers, are using to read your HTML emails.

Below are two reports done by two different organizations specialized in email marketing. The data collected is pretty up-to-date: one in January 2010, and the other in February 2010. I’m only the messenger here. Hopefully you’ll find it helpful, and please share if you found some other reports about email client popularity.

Create HTML Email In Outlook

Step-by-step guide on how to create HTML email in Outlook 2003
Updated for MS Outlook 2007

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Already know about the good, the bad, and the ugly of HTML through the post about HTML email overview, let’s start creating an HTML email in Outlook.

Quick notes about Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007: the process below is the same for both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. The difference between these two versions of Outlook is not in the process of creating and sending HTML email but in the built-in HTML email readers. Thus, there may be a bit difference if you create HTML for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007, but there won’t be any difference if you create HTML in or with Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007.

HTML Email – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Switching to HTML email? Know why people love and hate HTML enabled emails, and what can be done to have a smooth transition.

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HTML email as its name implied is an email written or coded with HTML as opposed to a plain text email. There’s one thing that should be clarified before we go on: today, most emails are HTML emails; if you color or bold your text, insert images in your email, more likely you’re sending an HTML email. However, that’s not what is meant by “HTML email” or “HTML enabled email” in this article. So what do we mean by sending an HTML email? Roughly, we mean to send a web page or a well designed and well coded HTML page as an email.