latest blog post:

design guru

The email standards project - frustrated with Gmail

Posted on Fri Apr 11/08 by qasimvirjee

A while back I came across the Email Standards Project through Campaign Monitor - the weapon of choice on our client projects which require email campaigning with html-coded newsletters (such as the JC Report).

They've just made a jokesy video I thought I'd share that overplays relates frustrations we as designers face when trying to make code cross-client compatible with email... Personally, I've been doing this stuff for a decade so I'm used to making things work but it really is time to get email standards up to scratch so that design can get more racey and creative in email newsletters and such.

Et voila:

 



Email Standards Project - Gmail Grimaces from Mathew Patterson on Vimeo.

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
Help us avoid spam and prove you're not an evil robot :)
  ____    ____    ____    _             __   
 / ___|  |___ \  | __ )  | | __  ____  / /_  
 \___ \    __) | |  _ \  | |/ / |_  / | '_ \ 
  ___) |  / __/  | |_) | |   <   / /  | (_) |
 |____/  |_____| |____/  |_|\_\ /___|  \___/
Enter the code depicted in ASCII art style.

subscribe

Sign up to our email newsletter to stay in touch - we send it out monthly and never spam.