Posts Tagged ‘webdevelopment’

Styling HTML Emails with Disabled Images

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

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The styling and formating of marketing emails is a fine art, but many people are missing a key factor with their design and build that may make or break the user’s decision to view the email in its entirety…

We are all familiar with an email dropping in our inbox and appearing as blank white space:

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The above image is an example of emails not being designed and built to work with images disabled. To help with explaining this process I have built a quick email to illustrate how alt tags can be styled, cells coloured, and text positioned to produce a professional looking email before any images have been downloaded. By using these techniques the user will be given an impression of the message, and an incentive to turn on images and view your email in it’s entirety.

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Why You Should (Mostly) Use jQuery Over Flash

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

For a long time Flash has held the market when it comes to unique and interesting interactive experiences on the web. But now, with jQuery becoming ever more popular a shift has become evident, and for good reason too!

Flash is a very good tool and you can do some amazing things with it, however, some of the fundamental aspects of web design and development are drastically improved when using jQuery.

jQuery is a free open source JavaScript library that has been designed to aid interaction on the Web. With the help of frameworks such as MooTools and Prototype, it has become very easy for simple JavaScript animations to be implemented with ease, and without any dreaded browser cross-compatibility issues.

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