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Salsa Weekly Highlight: Avoid Composing in Microsoft Word
Submitted Thu Apr 08 2010 17:19:00 GMT-0400 (EDT) by Leslie Hall(From this week's Weekly Highlight email. Click here to sign up to receive it in your inbox every week!)
It's the "Salsa Weekly Highlight," your quick hit on what's what in Salsa to help get the most out of your online program. As always, you can find plenty more news, updates, and conversation throughout the week on SalsaCommons.org.
This week, I just wanted to remind you to avoid copying and pasting from Microsoft Word into Salsa (and probably into most any other online design tool you might use).
I know, I know. It looks like it should work. Lay out page in familiar Word interface, copy, paste it into web page or email blast. Easy, right?
Unfortunately, appearances are deceiving in this case.
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Email Standards Project Launches
Submitted Wed Nov 28 2007 10:35:33 GMT-0500 (EST)
Comes the desperately overdue project for some kind of synoptic understanding of standards in e-mail.
Sweet mercy, is that an oasis?
Here's the introductory blog post:
Sweet mercy, is that an oasis?
Here's the introductory blog post:
[W]hy is it so hard to build a decent HTML email? The answer was not that nobody really cared, it was that the people who cared weren’t in a position to make any difference, or were not getting any support. That’s what the Email Standards Project is about: Making sure that people do care, that they do see why having standards support for email clients is important. And about making sure that our voices are heard by the people who can make a difference, the email client developers. This is not about complaining or being unrealistic. It’s about making contact with the right people, and getting them all the support they can use to improve their email clients. We want to work with the design community and the email clients to set some goals for email standards so that we can aim at a future when HTML email is not so hard.