Web Design Reference

E-mail Design and Markup Best Practices

Here are some resources that offer advice for e-mail best practices.

• Using style sheets in HTML email newsletters (old)
• Optimizing CSS presentation in HTML emails (new)
• Formatting plain text emails - the 4 golden rules
• How can I ensure all my campaigns are CAN-SPAM compliant?
• Maximum width for HTML emails
• Using forms in HTML emails
• Dealing with Images Not Loading by Default
• Best practices for sending to an older list

And the way cool Email Newsletter Design Gallery

Conferences

• SXSWi
• Adaptive Path UX Week
• An Event Apart
• IA Summit
• Anything by O'Reilly

Magazines

• Digital Web
• A List Apart
• boxes and arrows
• StyleGala
• Kaliber10000
• Design is Kinky
• Lounge Seventy-Two

Forums/Newsletters

• Ask E.T.
• css-discuss
• WSG: see Organizations below

Learning Web Sites

• HTML Dog
• W3Schools
• WestCiv
• SitePoint
• O'Reilly
• Jesse James Garrett's Information Architecture Resources
• CSS Directory

Nifty Online Tools

• COLOURlovers
• Designologue v3.0
• BrowserCam
• script.aculo.us
• Image Replacement Tests
• Little Boxes

Galleries

• CSS Zen Garden
• CSS Beauty
• StyleGala
• GUIdebook
• CSS Vault

Blogs

• Mezzoblue
• StopDesign
• Simple Bits
• What do I know?
• Asterisk
• hicksdesign
• AIGA Design Forum
• Coudal Partners
• Signal vs. Noise

Organizations

• Web Standards Group
• WaSP
• AIGA
• The Information Architecture Institute