From the course: Creating an HTML Email Newsletter
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Formatting the headers and footers
From the course: Creating an HTML Email Newsletter
Formatting the headers and footers
We're ready in this video to finish off our e-mail by coding the headers and footers at the top and bottom of our e-mail. We did set the font size here, but we'll also need to set the margin and padding. Go to our css prep file, Ctrl+C or Command+C to Copy, Ctrl+V or Command+V to Paste. We want the padding top and bottom probably 5 pixels is fine. We set the padding top and bottom instead of margin top and bottom, because older e-mail software often ignores margin while paying attention to padding, so let's save and see what we did, the spacing looks good. Let's also, while we're adding, adjust the color. If we go to our worksheet, we'll see that the color in hexadecimal is cfce96, so let's save our work and see what we have, that looks good! We'll set the anchor tag information last. Next, let's worked at the copyright and find us on Facebook. To adjust the other bits of footer copy, we'll simply put this information about color and paste it in here and here. We also need to grab the…
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Showcasing the finished project1m 57s
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Getting your dimensions and color palette7m 16s
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Creating your tables for the email6m 16s
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Adding your images to the code8m 3s
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Placing your copy in the code8m 18s
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Adjusting the margins and padding3m 39s
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Formatting the headers and footers3m 38s
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Testing the email in BrowserLab6m 20s
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Designing and coding a text email3m 42s
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Sending the final email out2m 28s
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