What is HTML Mail Boilerplate?

It provides a starting point for creating HTML email templates.

It builds upon Jay Holtslanders Coda Clips… http://www.campaignmonitor.com/downloads/coda-clip-bulletproof/
and follows the guidelines provided by Campaign Monitor: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/design-guidelines/

It also provides an updated method of background images in IE and Outlook 97.
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/3363/updated-applying-a-background-image-to-html-email/

Feel free to use and modify it to meet your own needs.