HTML emails are the darling of commercial operators for several reasons — not only do they look better, it's easier to track how many people read them. And there's no reason you can't send HTML emails to show family photos, portfolio samples to a prospective employer or just to entice people to visit your own website.

We're all familiar with the text of the average position vacant ad under 'Graphic Designer'; x years experience, Quark, Pshop, Illustrator a must.' In recent years there's been a lot more ads reading 'InDesign, Pshop, Illustrator a must'.

Compared to the requirements of web validation and standards, Xpress' web design component was pretty behind the times in early 2004 when Xpress 6 arrived. Now it's shockingly so.