One of the main concerns when creating an HTML page to send via email (like a newsletter) is that the application that will be used by the recipients to read your page has, at best, a very vague interpretation of CSS (at worst, no support at all), whether that CSS is linked from an external stylesheet or directly inserted into the document (in the HEAD section). Hopefully, there are alternatives. But some are far more usable and effective than others...

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You know that one browser that has only a vague association with modern web standards? Yeah, Internet Explorer. Wouldn't it be great if it supported stuff like translucent PNGs? Well, now you can add decent PNG support to IE5.5+ on Windows with no changes to your website HTML source code.

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Getting sites built and running in very short delays is a daily constrain every webdesigner has to deal with. In order to save time and money, why not rely on existing templates that can be adapted to suit the client's needs ? Furthermore, reusing free CSS templates also ensures (most of the time) that the reused code will be 100% XHTML/CSS compliant.

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Web development is a strange animal: it grows faster than anything else, obliging designers and developers to keep themselves constantly up-to-date, much more than in other field. Stay a couple of months without reading about new tools and tehcniques, and you're history. At The Art Company, we keep an eye on the recent developments and collect new ideas and methods for our readers. We've choosen for you 20 CSS techniques, tips and tricks that you may find handy.

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