How to design a cross client / browser compatible email?
css, email, html
Solution
I would recommend a preprocessor based framework like Foundation for Emails.
Problem
What are the proper practices in designing an email with a reasonable expectation that it will show up correctly for Outlook 2003, 2007 and in a webmail client? I'm subscribed to various email newletters and have viewed the source on them and have seen some of them have 2000 lines of HTML&CSS along with IF statements I've never seen before (I assume related to determining versions of outlook). Is there a tool either free or commercial that can be used to create the markup? Is there a standard pattern on how to apply these huge stylesheets I've seen?