Those interruptions….
Well, some interruptions are good (like stopping work to feel the baby kick), and others are bad . Others are in between, like today.
He responded with, “I can’t tell if you’re joking or bitching here?” What? Where did the come from? It finally came out that he wanted it for an email. Rrrr…. So my reply was, of course, “That would have be useful information before I got started.”
I didn’t waste a terrible amount of time, but I always have to keep in mind the target medium when I do things, to make sure it gets optimized for that. For instance, the big problem with HTML emails is that many email clients (like Outlook) will try to reformat the email for its own devious purposes. Actually I have no idea for what purpose the reformatting takes place, and from the amount of sense the HTML makes, I don’t think Outlook knows either. But regardless of why, the fact is that Outlook will take references to images — images that are stored online, mind you — and decide that you were the one making an error, and rewrites the image links to files on the user’s local hard drive. It makes zero sense. But bottom line, it’s best to not include any <IMG> tags when making an HTML email, but instead create <DIV> tags, use CSS to make them the right size, and set its background image to be the image in question. It’s a longer workaround, but at least it creates better HTML emails. BUT the thing is, you have to keep this in mind when you split the mockup image. Otherwise the CSS will end up being much more complicated.