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WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010

New PrimoCarInsurance.com Website Provides Drivers with Multiple Options for Finding the Cheapest Auto Insurance Quotes in one Location

(PRWEB) May 12, 2010 -- PrimoCarInsurance.com launches new car insurance site focused on how to save on car insurance. Their goal is simple; provide drivers with multiple options for getting auto insurance quotes including direct links to the largest auto insurance companies and options for comparing auto insurance companies side-by-side.

Auto insurance premiums are determined, in part, by a driver's age, gender, marital status and driving record. In addition less obvious factors play a role in the price drivers pay for coverage; such as the driving record of all drivers in a given area. If a particular insurance company has a high record of incidents in an area then quoted rates will be higher for all. So taking the time to shop around for the cheapest rates can save drivers money on auto insurance premiums.

PrimoCarInsurance.com provides info on minimum car insurance requirements and recommends top car insurance companies within each state. A free car insurance guide offers tips on saving money, frequently used car insurance terminology, and a car insurance worksheet to help prepare for quotes.

It makes sense to check auto insurance rates periodically against competing car insurance companies. Primo Car Insurance has done a great job of making it simpler for drivers to get at the information they need to save money on auto insurance.

Drivers can get daily tips on how to save on car insurance by following PrimoCarInsurance.com on Twitter @PrimoCarIns.

About PrimoCarInsurance.com

Primo Car Insurance is dedicated to helping drivers save money on auto insurance by providing them with the tools needed to find the cheapest auto insurance rates in every state.

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See full press release on PRWEB here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/compare/car-insurance-quotes/prweb3987464.htm

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010

Popular Email Clients and Outlook 2007 Support for HTML CSS Standards

Top 10 Email Clients

Email ClientMarket Share
Outlook
Outlook 2003
Outlook 2007
43%
34%
9%
Hotmail17%
Yahoo! Mail13%
GMail5%
Apple Mail4%
iPhone4%
Thunderbird2.4%
Windows Live Mail (Desktop)2%
AOL Mail1.2%
Lotus Notes0.4%
Others8%

Data collected from 250,000,000 email recipients using the Fingerprint analysis tool. This chart shows the top 10 email clients by market share. Compiled 24 February 2010 by fingerprintapp.com.



The chart to the left shows the top 10 email clients as of February 2010. The majority of users are reading emails with Outlook. Following close behind are web-based email accounts like Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and GMail making up 35% of email clients.

The chart is shown to emphasize the fact that most users (mostly businesses) are still viewing emails using Outlook. When you're designing your html emails you'll need to make sure they're displaying properly in Outlook.

There are a few (actually more than a few) things in Outlook 2007 that are no longer supported (for security reasons or Word 2007 doesn't support it.) Since most businesses have yet to upgrade to Outlook 2007 they might not be aware of this.

From the Microsoft.com website: "Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 uses the HTML parsing and rendering engine from Microsoft Office Word 2007 to display HTML message bodies. The same HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS) support available in Word 2007 is available in Outlook 2007."

Here's a short list of things you'll need to avoid when composing html emails:

Word 2007 / Outlook 2007 does not support:

Unsupported HTML Attributes Compared with the HTML 4.01 Specification
  • applet
  • bdo
  • button
  • form
  • iframe
  • input
  • isindex
  • menu
  • noframes
  • noscript
  • object
  • optgroup
  • option
  • param
  • q
  • script
  • select
The key items above that are not supported are forms, scripts, javascript, java, flash, and iframes.

Unsupported Cascading Style Sheet Properties Compared with Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2.1
  • azimuth
  • background-attachment
  • background-image
  • background-position
  • background-repeat
  • border-spacing
  • bottom
  • caption-side
  • clear
  • clip
  • content
  • counter-increment
  • counter-reset
  • cue-before, cue-after, cue
  • cursor
  • display
  • elevation
  • empty-cells
  • float
  • font-size-adjust
  • font-stretch
  • left
  • line-break
  • list-style-image
  • list-style-position
  • marker-offset
  • max-height
  • max-width
  • min-height
  • min-width
  • orphans
  • outline
  • outline-color
  • outline-style
  • outline-width
  • overflow
  • overflow-x
  • overflow-y
  • pause-before, pause-after, pause
  • pitch
  • pitch-range
  • play-during
  • position
  • quotes
  • richness
  • right
  • speak
  • speak-header
  • speak-numeral
  • speak-punctuation
  • speech-rate
  • stress
  • table-layout
  • text-shadow
  • text-transform
  • top
  • unicode-bidi
  • visibility
  • voice-family
  • volume
  • widows
  • word-spacing
  • z-index
Other Unsupported Web-Related Features

The following is a list of all other Web-related features that Word 2007 does not support:
  • Animated GIF images. Only a static representation of the GIF image shows.
  • Flash. Only a red "X" shows in the area where the flash would display.
So when composing html emails it's back to the basic table based layout since css float is no longer supported. Also avoid using background images (you can only have a background image for the body tag), flash, javascript, java and animated gifs. Here's the entire list of what is and is not support in Outlook 2007: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201.aspx.