Outlook

Outlook is Turning Off AMP for Email | What’s Next?

It’s been touted as one of the next big leaps in the evolution of email marketing. But now, Microsoft has indicated it will stop supporting AMP for Email completely – starting in October.  The news came in an update on Microsoft’s Tech Community forum. A thread from product marketing manager Aimee Sudeck, which a year ago announced the availability of developer preview for AMP emails, was edited … Continue reading “Outlook is Turning Off AMP for Email | What’s Next?”

Important Email Image Checks – Will Your Design Explode in Outlook?

Email marketing teams large and small usually have a workflow that includes a robust pre-deployment checklist. It includes checks for content, design, functionality, subscriber lists, and much more. Image validation should be included in that list, as well. This means double-checking your HTML image parameters to make sure they’ll display properly on every client. For … Continue reading “Important Email Image Checks – Will Your Design Explode in Outlook?”

Making Custom Font Stacks Work in Outlook

Outlook 2007, 2010 and 2013 have created limitless troubles for email developers. We have a whole whitepaper on how to address a lot of these troubles, including image gaps, image backgrounds and so on. But a bug I encountered recently—displaying custom fonts—had me pulling my hair out for a few hours, until I realized that I could game the system and make my fallback fonts function by using a LOT of font declarations.

17 Must-Know Tricks for Outlook 2007, 2010 and 2013

Designing for Outlook is like chasing the ever elusive White Whale. We spend hours pursuing it, tracking down bugs and glitches, trying to achieve pixel perfection in a distinctly imperfect environment.

Here are 17 tips to improve your outlook on Outlook.

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.