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You could be designing website templates for Wix, I guess.
"Here's one for people wishing to sell rabbit-shaped egg covers."
"Here's one for people who want to tell the world their tedious life story---including details of their Starbucks orders."
That would be pretty poor.
At least you get to use words like "viagra" and "My Nigerian grandfather won the lottery before he died..." -
brusti56yIf you can swap project change the company, I've done that shit and I would never go back
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jsMonkey5686yIt's amazing how fucking awful the email rendering engines are
Outlook uses fucking Word to render html -
strider6866yIt's really annoying that you can't use absolute/relative positioning, pseudo elements, in some email clients you cant even use fucking margin. I mean wtf.
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jsMonkey5686yAnd if you want a button you need three versions in html and vml with conditional comments to separate the vml and using a style block rule to hide the second, because style blocks are ignored in some render engines and they don't all support conditional comments
God I'm glad I'm not doing email templates anymore
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My friend said an intern designed this UI for an internal site. No. Just... no
Designing email templates is the worst thing that a human being can possibly do, I guess.
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