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The "Web Design is not Email Design" Lesson is part of the full, Responsive HTML Email Design course featured in this preview video. Here's what you'd learn in this lesson:
Email is not an image, print ad, or even a one-page website. While an email shares many of the attributes of a webpage, email clients do not support many web standards. This requires email designers to use different techniques. For example, web designers use <div> tags for layout. In emails, <table> tags are required. Justine compares many of these differences.
