The digg system has jumped the shark. now because of the way the rating system works, its a popularity contest run by a very small number of very narrow minded people.now watch my mod rating...another great example of why digg has reached its peter point. narrow mindedness rules. broad opinions, even when stated well, get killed.
We did a regression on CSS with just under 1100 variations, and found that just about 65% of the combinations were found to be acceptable though not identical. Based on the first standard deviation of browsers and platform usage, that amounts to hitting a page display target in about 88% of the cases. Most of our clients find that number acceptable for broad marketing. Others, armed with our analysis, can hit narrower targets (for example a client that sells Mac software is a little more interested in how Safari works than how Netscape works). When you design better pages, and avoid vertain common pitfalls, you can reach a broader audience than most people think. It's just not as easy as cranking out a heavily formatted page from Front Page and thinking its going to look the same on everyone's browser.
"Amazing...yea HTML isnt for email-BS. Some people are stupid. You can control your email tools preferences to view plan text/html - get over yourselves."HTML isn't for email. How it ever got to be used in email is beyond me, have you ever been part of a subscribed list and gotten nothing but a mess of code? I think not otherwise, you too would hate HTML.Email is meant for small fast personal communication, not for your advertisements.
I agree, but people look so bad on tables like they are the worst thing in the world. I disagree entirely, yes tables can cause a lot of problems sometimes, however it does have its pluses including:1. SEO Spider friendly2. Tabular Data display effeciency ( while you can still style them with css )3. Easy and quick writing.I am not praising Tables at all but at times you waste hours on time coding tags when all you had to do was use 1 table to display it, just my 2 cents.
I think HTML emails have their place. Adding nice enhancing imagery and color really allows the reader to be (potentially) more efficient at digesting the information. For certain kinds of emails, I find it similar to browsing the web with CSS and images turned off. Sure, it's possible, but it's certainly not very fun and definitely more difficult to scan the pages looking for what you need.Plus, it's nice to add a little subtle branding to your messages.So, my important keywords here were enhancing and subtle.At any rate, I think the article was quite helpful for people who haven't ever had to deal with rich emails before.
As I'm new to writing HTML formatted emails, this article provided a good overview. Now I check what my emails look like in my browser with images turned off. As far as checking compatibility in multiple email clients, I decided to use MailChimp.com as my Newsletter manager/bulk mailing service. They have a fantastic tool (Inbox Inspector) for automatically checking compatibility in the most widely used mail clients AND firewalls/SPAM filters. They go further to provide you with fixes. How disappointing it would be for a customer to subscribe to my newsletter and not be able to receive it because my email was intercepted by their SPAM filters. Here's a link if this is helpful to anyone else: <a class="user" href="http://www.mailchimp.com/add-ons/inboxinspector/">http://www.mailchimp.com/add-ons/inboxinspector/</a>
Closed AccountJun 6, 2006
The digg system has jumped the shark. now because of the way the rating system works, its a popularity contest run by a very small number of very narrow minded people.now watch my mod rating...another great example of why digg has reached its peter point. narrow mindedness rules. broad opinions, even when stated well, get killed.
mrblisterJun 6, 2006
We did a regression on CSS with just under 1100 variations, and found that just about 65% of the combinations were found to be acceptable though not identical. Based on the first standard deviation of browsers and platform usage, that amounts to hitting a page display target in about 88% of the cases. Most of our clients find that number acceptable for broad marketing. Others, armed with our analysis, can hit narrower targets (for example a client that sells Mac software is a little more interested in how Safari works than how Netscape works). When you design better pages, and avoid vertain common pitfalls, you can reach a broader audience than most people think. It's just not as easy as cranking out a heavily formatted page from Front Page and thinking its going to look the same on everyone's browser.
barbobotJun 7, 2006
"Amazing...yea HTML isnt for email-BS. Some people are stupid. You can control your email tools preferences to view plan text/html - get over yourselves."HTML isn't for email. How it ever got to be used in email is beyond me, have you ever been part of a subscribed list and gotten nothing but a mess of code? I think not otherwise, you too would hate HTML.Email is meant for small fast personal communication, not for your advertisements.
jinx__Jun 9, 2006
I agree, but people look so bad on tables like they are the worst thing in the world. I disagree entirely, yes tables can cause a lot of problems sometimes, however it does have its pluses including:1. SEO Spider friendly2. Tabular Data display effeciency ( while you can still style them with css )3. Easy and quick writing.I am not praising Tables at all but at times you waste hours on time coding tags when all you had to do was use 1 table to display it, just my 2 cents.
coreydoucoreyApr 22, 2007
Nice indeed. Is anyone able to open this link?
pohodoAug 9, 2007
I think HTML emails have their place. Adding nice enhancing imagery and color really allows the reader to be (potentially) more efficient at digesting the information. For certain kinds of emails, I find it similar to browsing the web with CSS and images turned off. Sure, it's possible, but it's certainly not very fun and definitely more difficult to scan the pages looking for what you need.Plus, it's nice to add a little subtle branding to your messages.So, my important keywords here were enhancing and subtle.At any rate, I think the article was quite helpful for people who haven't ever had to deal with rich emails before.
guidosanSep 27, 2007
As I'm new to writing HTML formatted emails, this article provided a good overview. Now I check what my emails look like in my browser with images turned off. As far as checking compatibility in multiple email clients, I decided to use MailChimp.com as my Newsletter manager/bulk mailing service. They have a fantastic tool (Inbox Inspector) for automatically checking compatibility in the most widely used mail clients AND firewalls/SPAM filters. They go further to provide you with fixes. How disappointing it would be for a customer to subscribe to my newsletter and not be able to receive it because my email was intercepted by their SPAM filters. Here's a link if this is helpful to anyone else: <a class="user" href="http://www.mailchimp.com/add-ons/inboxinspector/">http://www.mailchimp.com/add-ons/inboxinspector/</a>
bushjOct 23, 2007
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inoviceMay 22, 2008
Designed emails are not just a pretty appearence of information but for some companies its a part of their marketing, branding etc.i think.