There are various new and exciting stuff with the website development like HTML5 and CSS3.
But, when it comes to designing HTML e-mails, it is still the tables and hacks for improving compatibility with different e-mail clients.
HTML E-mail Boilerplate is a project which presents a starting point for HTML e-mail design and includes solutions for the major rendering problems with the most common email clients.
A lot of the requirements of great HTML emails fly right in the face of what makes great website designs. Until you understand the nuances of HTML email design, it can be a frustrating and fruitless experience. But once you understand and accept that HTML email is a fickle, inconsistent, and bug-prone medium, it’s possible to use it to great effect in marketing both for yourself and your clients.
In this tutorial, we are going to be creating a user signup form that adds a user to a database, and then sends out a confirmation email that the user must click on before their account will be activated.
Grabbing emails from your Gmail account using PHP is probably easier than you think. Armed with PHP and its IMAP extension, you can retrieve emails from your Gmail account in no time! Just for fun, I’ll be using the MooTools Fx.Accordion plugin to display each email.