Posts in: Email
- Emoticons: Not as corny as they used to be
- One of the biggest issues in communicating via keyboards and keypads is that you don’t have the context offered by body language, tone of voice, and emotion. Sometimes that’s a good thing. The ex and I had our most productive discussions via instant messenger. Face-to-face an eye roll or a sigh becomes something else to [...] [28 Jul 2007]
- Recommended: “A Guide to CSS Support in Email: 2007 Edition”
- From the fine folks at Campaign Monitor: A Guide to CSS Support in Email: 2007 Edition. It’s an update to the advice we’ve been hearing in light of the recent changes to CSS support in Outlook 2007 and the forthcoming launches of a new Yahoo! mail and the launch of Windows Live Mail. Related: Using CSS [...] [19 Apr 2007]
- Recommended: “How Your Email Design Can Get You Blacklisted”
- From the fine folks at MailChimp: a case study in what not to do when designing an e-mail newsletter. The take-away: write good copy, and use instead of images wherever possible. Words like “FREE,” “Giveaway,” or “You’re a winner” will make recipients hit the ‘Report Spam’ button — assuming your message made it past the spam [...] [3 Apr 2007]
- Molly explains what’s up with CSS and Outlook 2007
- From the post: As it turns out, in past versions, Outlook used two rendering engines. IE’s for reading content, and Word for composing messages. What this meant was that if you were replying or forwarding HTML emails, previous versions of Outlook would first use IE’s rendering engine to view it, then would switch over to the [...] [17 Jan 2007]
- Microsoft Outlook 2007: What you need to know when developing e-mail newsletters
- Microsoft chucked a wobbly into HTML email development with the release of Outlook 2007. Where previous versions of the e-mail client used the Internet Explorer rendering engine, the 2007 version has adopted the rendering engine of Microsoft Word. In other words, the level of CSS and HTML support that Internet Explorer 6 provided for Outlook — [...] [15 Jan 2007]
- Link dump: Sept 7, 2006 - Using CSS and HTML in email
- A round up of posts and articles about using CSS with HTML in email, with varying degrees of crustiness. How to Code HTML Email Newsletters - Lots of good bits at the bottom Designing, Coding & Delivering HTML Email [PDF] - from the MailChimp folks who are personal acquaintances of mine. Optimizing CSS presentation in HTML emails CSS and [...] [7 Sep 2006]
