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Email Marketing

// June 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // Design

When you send an email campaign, it isn’t just a simple note that’s launched into the ether. You want the message to be clear, and you want a guarantee that it’s received. You want to make sure your words are read, and you need to see that your dispatch was effective. Gone are the days [...]

Outlook’s broken—Let’s fix it

// June 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // CSS, Design

Microsoft have confirmed they plan on using the Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010.
This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position, no background images and lots more. Want proof? Here’s the same email in Outlook 2000 & 2010.
Outlook [...]

Facebook URL Madness

// June 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Social Media

As you no doubt heard last weekend, the whole Facebook vanity URL grab thing was big. Within seven minutes of the service being available last night, 345,000 users grabbed one. Within 15 minutes, over a half million had, Facebook spokesperson Larry Yu told Bloomberg. Within one hour, over 1 million Facebook usernames had been snapped [...]

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