June 12, 2007

Campaign Monitor Defends HTML E-mail »

Jeffery Zeldman’s original post on his dislike for HTML e-mail attracted a lot of attention and comments. Campaign Monitor provides a nice rebuttal, which Zeldman responds to here.

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June 8, 2007

E-mail is Not a Platform for Design »

Jeffery Zeldman makes an argument for why “designed” e-mails should cease to exist and goes so far as to label designers who use it as giving us all a bad name. His argument is a little near-sighted and ignores the reality of today’s market place. Permission based HTML e-mail, is not only valid, but extremely effective.

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