Articles Tagged html email

We don’t generally think of CSS animations or transitions inside of email, or really any movement at all outside of an awkward occasional GIF. But there is really no reason you can’t use them inside HTML emails, particularly if you do it in a progressive enhancement-friendly way. Like, you could style a link with a hover state and a shaking animation, but if the animation (or even the hover) doesn’t work, it’s still a functional link. Heck, you can … Read article “CSS Animations and Transitions in Email”

You love HTML emails, don’t you?

As a developer, probably not… but subscribers absolutely do. They devour them, consume them on every device known to man, and drive a hell of a lot of revenue for companies that take their email marketing seriously.

But most web developers tasked with building HTML emails merely want to get them out the door as quickly as possible and move on to more interesting assignments. Despite email’s perennial value for subscribers, tight timelines, and … Read article “HTML Email and Accessibility”

Last week’s ShopTalk Show was all about HTML Email. It’s such a fascinating subject, as technically it is front-end web development, but it almost feels like a bizarro alternate universe.

We have dozens of browsers to worry about, they have hundreds of clients to consider. We worry about whether fancy new APIs are supported, they worry about whether padding is supported. We have grid layout, they have…. grid layout?!

It’s tempting to make the joke: “It’s coding like it’s 1999!”… Read article “The Tools of an HTML Email Workflow”

And you use them pretty much just like you’d use custom fonts on a website. Jaina Mistry had the scoop on this last year over on the Litmus blog:

While web fonts don’t have universal support, here are the email clients where they are supported:

• AOL Mail
• Native Android mail app (not Gmail app)
• Apple Mail
• iOS Mail
• Outlook 2000
• Outlook.com app

… Read article “You Kinda Can Use Custom Fonts in HTML Emails”

Should you be sending HTML emails at all?

This is surely a debated issue, but ultimately I say if you have a message you feel would benefit from a nicely designed email you should go for it. If you just want to do it because everyone else on your block is doing it too, don’t. If you decide to do it, these are what I consider to be the five golden rules of HTML emails:

• Only send email to people

… Read article “Using CSS in HTML Emails: The Real Story”