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Are you having problems with the line height of your email in Outlook.com or Hotmail? This problem is caused by Outlook.com's style sheet forcing a line-height of 131%. The solution? This one's actually very easy. All you need to add is a little CSS magic. |
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Hey Mac fans! We know we haven't given you quite as much love as the Windows kids out there, but now we're going to offer Mac previews alongside the Windows ones. Go ahead, print your first one out and put it next to your framed picture of Steve Jobs. You're in the in-crowd now. |
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Check out all the tricks we tried to get backgrounds to work in Outlook Web App (OWA). Think you've got a better idea? We'd love to hear it! |
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Mobile devices are all about the freedom to take your data with you, where ever you go. We want your email preview experience to be just as free, which is why we implemented drag & throw functionality, along with horizontal and vertical views. |
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Are you seeing 4-5px gaps underneath your images in Outlook 365's Outlook Web App (OWA)? Check out our latest blog on client quirks to see how to fix this annoying problem. |
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Does logging into your inbox remind you of an episode of Hoarders? Are disorganized messages circling you like a murder of crows? Well, according to the Gmail team, "it doesn’t have to be that way." |
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Microsoft's new Office 365 service is intended to replace their desktop product suite. As part of a subscription, they'll offer all of your old favorites (PowerPoint, Word, Excel) in their most up-to-date versions, accessible from anywhere. Sounds great, doesn't it? Hold on to that thought for a moment, email designers. Read about Office 365’s version of Outlook, or the Outlook Web App (OWA), and how it will affect your email design. |
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Many of our readers ask us how to make their 1, 2, and 3 column layouts "responsive." To address this need, we found inspiration from the web, and developed a "how to tutorial." We later learned that a layout that we had used to draw inspiration was being sold on Theme Forest for profit. |
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Check out how we used Mozify to improve the images-off appearance of Speedo's latest email. |
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We recently came across this clever email from One King's Lane. The email looks great with images downloaded, but that wasn't what caught our eye. Email clients will show a variety of things when they encounter an image that doesn't have specified height or width. Read on to find out exactly what they'll display! |
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Check out the latest updates to our platform with our April release, including:
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Backgrounds might seem like they should be a simple effect to achieve in HTML email, but that's not always the case. Outlook 2007, 2010 and even 2013 will give users who rely on the body's Read more about it in this blog. |
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We recently came across a problem in Outlook.com where emails were being rendered as a blank white page. Examining the "View email source" showed us that the code had indeed been recieved. So why was the email blank? |
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In our responsive design testing, we've been trying a number of different techniques to control how our emails are displayed. One tempting piece of internet technology was this little line of code: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0," /> Turns out this tag causes a BLANK, white screen in the BlackBerry. Check out our test results on all devices... |
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Ever since 2011, when we started testing media queries for mobile devices, I have found it difficult to remember how the min-width and max-width conditional statements operate. Even to this day, I have to slow down, and repeat in my head what they actually mean because frankly, I find their naming convention to be very unintuitive. In this article, I'll attempt to break it down in a way that makes it simpler to understand. |
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With mobile on the rise and so many of our users inquiring about best practices for developing responsive emails, we figured it's a great time to offer up a series of free email templates to get you up and running as fast as possible. Check out our first free mobile template... |
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It would be nice if all devices responded to media queries in exactly the same way, but they don't. As discussed in our previous blog, screen resolution doesn't determine how media queries respond on many devices. Well we've put each of our in house devices to the media query test, here's what we found... |
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Responsive design allows you to tailor your content to different screen sizes, but what size screens are out there? Check out our latest blog to find out what screen sizes you can expect to encounter. |
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It's no matter of luck that American Eagle came out with this colorful promotion just in time for St. Patrick's Day. We loved the clever use of holiday colors: white text that really pops over a green background. |
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When Microsoft told us "we will soon upgrade every Hotmail user to Outlook.com," we had no idea how soon that would be. As of today, all of our accounts have been migrated and we can no longer offer screen shots for Hotmail. |
