HTML email campaigns are here to stay. With recent announcements from Microsoft claiming that they are basing Outlook’s HTML content on a MS Word layout, the need design specifically for emails is more important than ever before. Too many people assume that designing HTML emails is just the same as designing a web page – it’s not. I even have clients that ask me to send an email based on one of their pages on their current site and are shocked about the amount of work that is involved.

In a recent website build I wanted to incorporate two different coda style slider and the jQuery tabs effect together. Although they worked, when running them together on the same page they ran sluggish and the effects rendered slowly. The chaps woking on jQuery have built a quick fix for this exact problem.

The jQuery.noConflict(); solves this very neatly. Here’s how to implement it:

1. Insert the following in your header with the other scripts. This is basically saying that the variable J is replacing the $ due to the conflict.

2. Open one of the conflicting scripts and replace all instances of $ with the variable J. Use a find and replace tool for speed.

3. Save the script and refresh the page. The scripts should run cleanly.