designing for hotmail

[embersyc]

Been working on emails lately and they are totally image based for the most part, I slice the images up and put them in tables and this works fine for the most part, but I discovered hotmail puts spaces in between the table rows.

Anybody know any possible work around for this? I really don't want to send the email as one giant image.

[digizan]

Apparently Hotmail now serves different content to different browsers on the fly, so that might be part of your problem. See http://www.email-standards.org/blog/entry/the-impact-of-browsers-on-windows-live-hotmail/ for more info.

You might also want to check out the 2008 edition of Campaign Monitor's Guide to CSS Support in Email (http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/) as it covers both desktop & web clients.

Digi