Two ways to ensure that your entire email is rendered by default in the iPhone & iPad

While using the native email clients for the iPhone and iPad, we noticed that in approximately 10-15% of our test emails, the reader only displayed a small segment of the original email. When this happens, it renders the loaded portion of the email with a button at the bottom which reads: "Download remaining XX bytes." Often times the button appears below the fold, especially in landscape view, making it easy to miss.

Here are a few work-arounds...

Customize your email for the new Xoom, Kindle Fire, and iPad Tablets!

Tis the season over here at Email on Acid and we have tons of shiny, new devices on our desks just begging for a test drive. Fortunately for every computer lover on the planet, the Kindle Fire, Xoom, iPad, and iPhone are up front and center this holiday season and we are anticipating record sales from Amazon, Motorola, Apple and several more mobile & tablet carriers.

In this article we will show you how to target each device using the power of media queries...

Stop Yahoo! Mail from Displaying your Email Twice

If you use a simple street address in your email, there's a chance that Yahoo might duplicate your content twice, or maybe even three times.  Each time, the repetative content starts with the city and state which caused the glitch in the first place.  Confused?  So were we, here's more...

When it comes to Email, Size Does Matter

As if things weren't already hard enough, now we have to worry about file size?  That's right ladies and gents, if your email exceeds 102K, Gmail will clip off the rest.

Repurpose your Images for Mobile Email

As open rates for mobile devices continue to skyrocket, we've seen an increased level of interest from people who are developing emails that render flawlessly on desktop and mobile email clients. Replacing and/or re-using graphics is a great place to start for a few different reasons...

Stop Gmail from Wrapping your Phone Number into Text Links

Both the desktop and mobile version(s) of Gmail now insert an anchor link around phone numbers. Check out this article for a few work-arounds...

Lotus Notes 8.0 does not support Inline RGB Decimal Values

If you include an inline RGB decimal value, Lotus Notes 8.0 will ignore the entire style declaration...

Is your Email too Wide for Hotmail?

In reviewing some of our recent screen captures for Hotmail, we've spotted some interesting changes they've made to their interface that might affect your email if it's too wide.

Designing HTML Emails for Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express

We've had a few members ask us about Outlook 2003 recently so we decided to dive deeper into the topic of rendering engines, particularly with respect to Outlook 2003 and Outlook Express. As you probably know, both of these older versions of MS Outlook used the Internet Explorer(IE) rendering engine for displaying HTML emails. The question is: What version of IE do they use?

Email Design for Mobile and Blocked Images

We recently re-designed our automated member registration email and paid particular attention to how its viewed when images are blocked and on mobile devices.

Yahoo! Mail does not support the Style Block in Internet Explorer 7 and 8

Yahoo! Mail (formerly known as Yahoo! Beta) does NOT support the style block in older versions of Internet Explorer. A big thanks to Brian Sisolak @bsisolak at Trilogy Interactive for bringing this to our attention!

Stop Yahoo! Mail from rendering your Media Queries

To make a long story short, each version of Yahoo! ignores your media query declaration along with all of its conditional statements and renders each of the styles as if they are outside of the media query to begin with. On top of that, it gets confused with your first declaration which is therefore ignored.  Here's your fix...

A CSS Template for Developing HTML Emails in Mobile Devices

A play by play approach for creating emails that purr on the iPhone, iPad, and Android...

Yahoo! New has been Discontinued!

Say goodbye to those pesky Yahoo! shortcuts and media query workarounds!

3 Things you Need to Know about Hotmail’s Latest Release

Hotmail has recently done a big update to their web based email client and it comes with its fair share of newfound technical challenges.  If you are a developer or email marketer, here are three things you need to know about for future campaigns...

AOL Replaces your Body Tag and Ignores your CSS Body Properties

Although AOL offers fantastic support for WC3 standards, they've made some recent updates that effect your body styles and attributes.

Background Colors in HTML Emails

In my last article I explained why the large, horizontal gap sometimes appears in Outlook 2007 and 2010. Unfortunately the only perfect fix is to stack your tables so that you never have a table that exceeds 23 inches in height. One common strategy for setting a background color for all email clients is to create wrapper table with a width of 100%. This makes it challenging to keep your tables under 23 inches in height - especially when developing long newsletters. With that said, here's another option you might consider...

Spacing Issues in Outlook 2007 and 2010

In some instances, Outlook 2007 and 2010 will render an unwanted horizontal space in your email. We've been aware of issue for a while and figured it's time we hunker down in search for an explanation. If you are running into this issue, hopefully this article will provide you with some useful work-a-rounds.

Yahoo Beta’s Embedded CSS may affect your Layout

Many web based email clients use embedded CSS which may impact your email layout. Our focus for this article is Yahoo Beta. It places all of your content within two distinct divs, each with its own embedded CSS.

Yahoo Beta Ignores the Body Tag

Although Yahoo still refers to its new email client as "Yahoo Beta," this app has been live to the public for quite some time now. Yahoo has also been quite aggressive in getting current users to make the switch to the Beta version. With that said, if you design and develop HTML emails for a living, here's something that is very important to know:

Yahoo Beta strips your entire body tag along with each of its attributes.