My old university, Lancaster, doesn’t normally send out Christmas cards to its Alumni, but this year we’ve received an email which links to a really well thought out and beautifully presented set of videos. The videos are interviews with academics discussing a range of festive topics. In short, its the best virtual Christmas card I’ve […]
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An email campaign we built and sent out on behalf of one of our clients, the-recipe, has been featured in the Campaign Monitor email design gallery. Congratulations to Gary Ingram of Brand-ing who produced the innovative design!
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Email marketing pros Campaign Monitor have written a really interesting article discussing innovative techniques to target email recipients that block images. You can read the article here: → Image blocking in email clients: Tips and techniques for 2011
I came across a nasty Outlook 2007 bug this morning whilst building an HTML email for a client. When I viewed the email without downloading the photos in Outlook 2007, the table cells widths were all correct. However, upon downloading the images the table re-sized itself to an arbitrary layout. Very frustrating! I had used
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I’ve been building HTML emails for a while now, and I have some top tips which I hope will save others new to the field a bit of time! Here are my top tips for building an HTML email which works well in all web and desktop email clients. Don’t bother with the <head> tag…
