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Wall Street Journal gets Gmail’d

Friday, February 8th, 2008

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Here is a good visual example of what getting Gmail’d is all about. On the left is the WSJ email in Gmail, on the right the Webpage version of how they want it to look.

After reviewing the code, we noticed that the bgcolor code is missing the “#” (bgcolor=”336699″ should be bgcolor=”#336699″) in the banner, headline and content boxes where there are issues.

Some email clients/browsers will show the bgcolor without the “#” in the code, Gmail won’t.

Here at eROI, we use the Rendering tools provided by Return Path, to catch these things, a real lifesaver.

For more info on coding email for Gmail, check out the Gmail page at the Email Standars Project. Hopefully Google is listening.

San Diego here we come!

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