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Borders and Dropshadow

Duration 1 mins | Episode 3 of Managing successful HTML email builds

Lisa Freeman: Course Tutor by Lisa Freeman

HTML emails can’t support CSS3 effects such as dropshadow, which means we have to do dropshadow as an image.

Some email clients space text fractionally differently no matter what rules you put in, whilst some versions of outlook require all images to have fixed heights. These issues combined can mean

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Episodes in this series
Episode 1:
Width
Duration: 1mins
Episode 2:
Images and fonts
Duration: 1mins
Episode 3:
Borders and Dropshadow
Duration: 1mins
Episode 4:
Templates
Duration: 1mins
Episode 5:
Two different versions
Duration: 1mins
Episode 6:
A fluid layout
Duration: 1mins
Episode 7:
Different hero images
Duration: 1mins
Episode 8:
Dark mode
Duration: 1mins
Episode 9:
Designing for mobile
Duration: 1mins
Episode 10:
AMP for emails
Duration: 1mins
Lisa Freeman: Course Tutor
By Lisa Freeman

Lisa has planning, designing and building websites for companies of all sizes for over 18 years. Now a days you'll mainly find her wireframing and then designing complex sites over at 18a to make sure they flow well to give the user the best possible experience whilst providing great ROI for the client. She also teaches SEO (search engine optimisation).