Render Me Unimpressed

I received an email from B & Lu today, which is an e-commerce site specializing in women's clothing. When I tried to view it in my Yahoo inbox, I saw this:




Not very compelling, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt and figured it might be a Yahoo issue. So I clicked the "Having trouble viewing this email?" link.



Guess what? Same blank page with the empty boxes in Firefox, too.






Moral of the story: Make sure your image server is up, and will remain up and accessible after you send your emails. This should be common sense, but... apparently not!