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Creating your tables for the email

Creating your tables for the email

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Creating your tables for the email

In the last video we extracted color information dimensions and other details and wound up with a worksheet that look something like this. To start coding we'll have in our interface a blank HTML file, we have our prep code file for HTML; we've added the doc type, body etcetera. We've got our CSS prep code, we have our email copy to save us a lot of typing, and for our discussion later when we add the background image we have our VML code for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010. So we'll start with our email invitation. We're going to start off very simply. No big scary leaps, we're going to add code in layers not all at once. The first step is to go to our HTML prep code, highlight, Ctrl+C or Command+C to copy, Ctrl+V or Command+V to paste. What I do want to add is an HTML comment that tells us this is our Wrapper, our pseudo BODY tag table. As we add layers and layers of code these comments will help us understand where things begin and where they end. It will save us a lot of time. I'll…

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