HTML email styling problem

[eluser]Kinsbane[/eluser]
I built a custom email design template for our sales folks (not using CSS, but my reply is more based on the design side of things). It works well, and we had a few issues regarding styling and such.

One thing to remember is that sometimes Outlook will not display background images at all. I had originally designed a template using fixed-width floating DIVs, but Outlook was having none of this. So, I changed it to a simple barebones table-based framework (I hated doing that) and then used floats and such inside the table cells, which worked out quite well.

I started out by using this link:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/arch..._emai.html

to figure out what worked and what didn't, which helped out immensely. I then went looking for templates by other folks who had worked extensively with CSS-based email designs. Most notable was this one:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/templates.aspx and this one: http://www.kinsbane.net/CSSEmail.zip

Finally, another good resource for best practices: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/code-ht...ewsletters

I don't know how CI's email class works with all of this, but my guess is, with a bit of reading, these can be at least painlessly integrated.