Text in table comes out as bold or bolder when I email it???

Question

I have been very successful in writing and emailing my press
releases. However...
How I create then is via creating a table in Dreamweaver and
putting everything there. The reason why I use a table is so that I
can make sure that the content occupies 80% of the horizontal space
and so I can center the content.
I try to have the text come out as light, or normal looking.
However, I have found that all the text that is in the table
automatically comes out at bold (or bolder, depending on where the
email is received and read). I have tried everything I can to
change this so that it comes out as light, but have not had
success.
Can anyone explain why this is and give a solution?
An example is this press release:
http://www.manmeetswoman.com/newsletters/media/july2407_seattle.html
It looks good online, when went the page is emailed, the text
gets bold. I email it by pasting the source code into a program
that then emails the press one at a time.
Is there a way I am supposed to do this? A better way?
Any help and insight is appreciated.
Ron

Answer 1

Email clients typically do *NOT* read CSS that is in the head
of the page.
You have CSS in the head of the page forcing text that would
otherwise be
bold, to be normal in weight.
<title>The Art of Attraction Event in Seattle a
success! Two more dates
added!</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style20 {font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;}
.style21 {font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size:
medium;}
.style24 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}
.style25 {font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;
font-family: Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; }
.style27 {font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size:
18px; }
-->
</style>
The text would be bold because you have placed it into a
<th> rather than a
<td> in your table -
<th scope="col"><div align="left"
class="style24">
<p align="center" class="style20 "><img
src="
http://www.manmeetswoman.com/newsletters/media/mmw_(screen).jpg"
alt="Man Meets Woman in Seattle! www.manmeetswoman.com"
width="800"
height="235" /><br />
<br />
- For Immediate Release -</p>
<p align="center" class="style27">The Art of
Attraction Event in
Seattle a success! Two more dates added!</p>
<p align="left" class="style21">Seattle, WA, July
24th, 2007 &ndash;
The recent Art of Attraction event held in Seattle
Solve the problem by clicking in the cell in DW, and
converting your <th> to
<td> by unchecking the "header" box on the property
inspector.
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"audio90" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
>I have been very successful in writing and emailing my
press releases.
> However...
>
> How I create then is via creating a table in Dreamweaver
and putting
> everything there. The reason why I use a table is so
that I can make sure
> that
> the content occupies 80% of the horizontal space and so
I can center the
> content.
>
> I try to have the text come out as light, or normal
looking. However, I
> have
> found that all the text that is in the table
automatically comes out at
> bold
> (or bolder, depending on where the email is received and
read). I have
> tried
> everything I can to change this so that it comes out as
light, but have
> not had
> success.
>
> Can anyone explain why this is and give a solution?
>
> An example is this press release:
>
http://www.manmeetswoman.com/newsletters/media/july2407_seattle.html
>
> It looks good online, when went the page is emailed, the
text gets bold. I
> email it by pasting the source code into a program that
then emails the
> press
> one at a time.
>
> Is there a way I am supposed to do this? A better way?
>
> Any help and insight is appreciated.
>
> Ron
>