Wrapping up this series on coding emails, we’ll look at some final layout commands along with other handy code snippets and tools. Column Shifting Layouts Two column layouts can work great for a wide desktop display, but when viewing on a small mobile device, converting it to a 1 column stacked design can greatly improve
Posted by Scott Cohen
January 15, 2014 in story time
By now I don’t need to tell you about the pervasiveness of smart phones, or how differently users interact with them verses desktop computers. So I won’t. Most mobile email clients will scale a static email to fit the viewer (everything’s tiny) or crop the email (scroll-ville). To get optimal results we need to have
Posted by Scott Cohen
September 18, 2013 in story time
Reset styles and client bugs! We’ve already looked at some general structural pointers in coding pixel perfect emails, now let’s examine some things we should avoid (or at least be aware of) when coding emails. Paragraph Tags These are commonly inserted when returning in WYSIWYG editors or copy/pasting from non-plaintext sources. Various email clients
Posted by Scott Cohen
December 11, 2011 in story time
Embedding images with your email. 1.) They can be hero images that span the entire width, in which case it’s best to wrap them in their own table. You can even stack a number of images vertically, just make sure you set a display:block css attribute on them to prevent Gmail from adding gaps between
Posted by Scott Cohen
December 11, 2011 in story time
