How do you create HTML Email to work on all systems

[Starchile]

Okay, here's my stats. First of all I'm a designer and know NOTHING about programming. Basically I'm stuck. I know this is a programming issue. I'm working on a Mac using their Mail program. I've created an html email with images placed on a web server. When I attach the html file and send it from Apple Mail(it shows the icon instead of page), it works properly on hotmail, yahoo, netscape mail, outlook. But not the Apple Mail application (I don't think it works in Eudora either.) Is this something that can be easily resolved or does there need to be a bunch of programming to ensure it works on everything? Any help will be appreciated.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

you don't, not all email clients interpret html coding the same way, for example, if an html page is attached to a yahoo email, yahoo will display the attachment as html, so there is not set standard for HTML email, it all depends on the email client, but to ensure maximum compatability, you should code in proper html, its the best you can do, forcing a an email client to read html is dependent on the client and the user, whether or not the user allows html email

[Sayonara]

Here you go: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssemail/

That article basically deals with the issue of mail client rendering inconsistencies.

Using CSS for mail can be a bit of a trial, but an extra advantage is that it reduces the HTML in the mail and therefore makes it less susceptible to being trapped by programs like SpamAssassin.

Please note that Eudora’s support for HTML in general is incredibly poor, so I excluded it from testing altogether.
Hmmmph.

[Starchile]

Thanks for the response everyone. I'll try this out and see what happens.

[bradyj]

I had this same question, read on:
http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=47586