For a long time, I’ve gone away from using absolute positioning to structure my webpages and have since relied almost exclusively on floats to position things side-by-side. It seemed that absolute positioning had its disadvantages because it takes elements out of the flow of the page. So if you absolutely position a long block of text or something likewise huge, it can cover and obscure small inline things that follow it. It just makes everything a little bit crazy because suddenly things aren’t stacking up the way you expect, you get z-index issues, and IE6 explodes (IE6 explodes no matter what you do, actually.). But just now I realized one benefit of using absolute positioning over floats in some places: looking good when naked.

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Just wanted to write a quick post to link some articles for future reference.

Writing an HTML email is like taking a regressive leap 10 years into the past. Mangled, reinterpreted markup; wildly inconsistent rendering; table layouts and font tags everywhere. Aeiieeeee!

But in case you need to dive into this mayhem, here’s how you’d do it:

• Writing cross-client HTML email – emtek.net.nz
  
• Email Design Guidelines – CampaignMonitor.com
• CSS Support in Email (2008) – CampaignMonitor.com
• Video in Email – CampaignMonitor.com (long story short: you can’t do it)