One of my key businesses, before doing DNN is email marketing and newsletters.. I think that's why I enjoy the aspect of skinning.. who knows..
If you send it to me in publisher, I will create picture perfect email template to suit your site as an interim. This is one of my strengths.
In xsl, not sure, but I can give the finished product to a developer strong in that area, to ensure you have the right look and feel.
Also, you might want to consider the third party editor such as cute editor and I have not used speerio's but suggest you look at that.
If you are doing articles, information online, require structure,uniformity in presentation and have several hands who are doing this, I can't emphasise enough how something like cute editor allows for templates, pre formatting of consistent information and they are accessible by staff as templates to pull in and create your articles/content.
This is an exciting area of DotNetNuke and with 3, even the bulk newsletter provides the abilty to have the third party editor run as a default.
Hope this gives you an insight.
Nina Meiers
Nina Meiers