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Useful Tips for Designing Email Templates

HTML Email Templates have been increasing in popularity recently as normal text emails are getting out of style for companies and services that send out emails on a routinely basis.

With that said, many email templates have been arising with some not compatible from different aspects of its design due to design complexity.

Furthermore, to help reduce email template errors and common mistakes, here we take a look at six tips to improving your templates in terms of design and layout.

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CSS Techniques that Turn a Dream into Reality

CSS has amazed us with the flexibility that it comes with. You can create a number of functions that you didn’t think were possible unless you used technologies such as Flash or jQuery. Below we’ve taken the time to round up various CSS techniques that can turn a “dream” into a reality.

CSS Based Image Maps

The CSS hides the definition-term (which is really used for when CSS is disabled), as well as the definition-description (displayed upon hover of the anchor) and displays the definition description (in this case, the description of the hotspot(s) you’ve chosen for your imagemap), and absolutely positions and displays the description upon rolling over the hotspot (also defined in the CSS).

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10 Useful and Time-Saving CSS Grid-Layout Generators

CSS is considered the “back-bone” of a website. It structures, helps embed, and styles elements. Now, if we were to code a CSS layout by hand, it would take us an unneeded amount of time that we could be putting towards other areas of our designs.

With somewhat similar concepts to the all-famous button, background, and favicon generators, today we present you with 10 Useful and Time-Saving CSS Grid-Layout Generators that will save you mass amounts of time and help you eliminate some repetitive coding.

Blueprint Grid CSS Generator

This tool will help you generate more flexible versions of Blueprint’s grid.css and compressed.css and grid.png files. Whether you prefer 8, 10,16 or 24 columns in your design, this generator now enables you that flexibility with Blueprint.
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