Emailology

Fitting More Above the Fold

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!

Vector Markup Language and Backgrounds

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 background-image property a lot of trouble. Because of these problems many have turned to Vector Markup Language (VML), part of the Office Open XML standards.

Read more about it in this blog.

Firing Blanks with Outlook.com

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?

Viewport Metatag Rendered Unusable

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 the viewport meta tag.

Turns out this tag causes a BLANK, white screen in the BlackBerry.  Check out our test results on all devices…

Screen Resolution and Responsive Design

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.

Using Empty Table Cells in HTML Emails

Designers often use empty cells in tables to create ‘pixel perfect’ emails, but this method might not be as reliable as you had thought. We performed a number of tests to investigate empty table cells. Check out this blog post to review some of our research and to learn best practices.