Re: Plain Text vs. HTML Emails
Re: Plain Text vs. HTML Emails
- Subject: Re: Plain Text vs. HTML Emails
- From: Deborah Shadovitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:16:16 -0700
On Sep 20, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Terry White wrote:
Count me as a fan of HTML email. I'm a visual person and a busy
person. If the email contains all that I need to see including the
images without having to make an extra trip to the web to see the
content that I just read about, then GREAT!
A picture, as they say is worth....
I actually despise news stories that talk about some great new
product without actually showing the product shot. Then not only
making the user go to the company's site (www.company.com), but
also having them dig for the actual product page.
I think a nice balance can be struck by offering a choice as many
sites do and let the USER decide how they want their information
instead of a committee deciding for them. Offer both! Let the user
subscribe to the one they want.
And happily, there's Paste Special in Adobe GoLive so we can copy
from HTML email and paste it into our web pages without the
formatting and font tags. :)
But I'm a fan of well spaced plain text myself, as I'd replied
offline last week.
When done right, with a full link, http://www.company.com, I can
easily click and get the full picture, which I'd seek anyway.
I hate the length of time it takes to load an email in the preview
pane when I don't wish to but either am looking the first time or it
comes up because I have deleted the mail above or below it.
There are 2 different issues: our question was about html or plain
text for a newsletter.
The issue of it in email messages other than a 1-way newsletter is
quite different as there are more issues when a thread happens. (I
detest html for regular email; can't read it, can't follow, can't
help the person seeking my help, can't learn from it. Too hard to
follow indents, colors, fonts... Give me brackets or sidelines and
colors for levels any day!
Offering both is a great idea for a business. In fact, I'd say it is
a mistake not to. But for us, I'll take whatever Sandy decides as I
don't want to not make her do more work.
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Deborah Shadovitz • http://www.shadovitz.com
Mac Gathering, So Cal - http://www.macgathering.com - May 20, 2006
Mac & GoLive Specialist: Trainer, Author, Instructor, Speaker
Contributor to MacAddict, Mac Design, Macworld & more
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