After a couple of months of hard work and some amazing help from others, I'm excited to announce that the Email Standards Project site has just officially launched.

First off, I wanted to say a huge thanks to a few people:

• Luke Stevens for his awesome hard work on the design and build of the site. Luke's worked incredibly hard, especially in the last few days to make the site a reality.
• Mark Wyner, our fearless tester and standards guru for being patient enough to test and document every major email client out there.
• The entire Freshview team, especially Mat for managing the Facebook group and having a hand in just about everything else.

What's on email-standards.org?

If you're after a quick background on how the whole idea started, check out my rant from a few months back. Here's a quick overview of what the site currently includes:

• An overview of the project, it's aims and background.
• A short article about why web standards are important for email.
• A series of reports on the current state of standards support in each major email client, including suggestions for improvement.
• The Email Standards Project blog, focusing on news about the project and about email standards. We'd love to see your contributions here!
• Information about how people like you can be involved and help the Email Standards Project make a difference.

How can you help right now?

The most immediate way that everybody can help is to make your voice heard. Use your blog, newsletter or website to mention the launch of the Email Standards Project, and to discuss why you think it is important and worth checking out.

It would be fantastic if we could get as many people as possible posting about this. If you don't have a blog, then you could contribute your thoughts as a comment on our blog or someone else's post, and help to build interest in that way. We've put together some other ideas you might consider.

HTML emails have been languishing for too long, and now it is time to get involved and make something happen. If you have any questions, or suggestions for how we can further the cause, please get in touch or leave a comment on the ESP site.