The holidays are a busy time for email marketers as it is the peak shopping season. However the holidays also provide a ripe opportunity to for email marketers to fire up their creative juices.
Here are some really cool campaigns that
Interactive Email
Minesweeper Interactive Email: An Interview with Camille Palu and miah roberts
Camille and miah have been creating some pretty cool interactive emails lately on their table tr td website. One of the really cool ones is this interactive Minesweeper game that you can play right in the email!
Check out this
Check out this
CSS Animations: Star Wars in Email Redux
The recent highly anticipated Star Wars spin off Rogue One featured the iconic AT-AT walkers in a pitched battle scene. I thought it would be apt to bring attention to this article posted last year featuring an animated AT-AT walker rendered in
How to Implement the Ken Burns Effect in Email
Ken Burns effects are slow pan and zoom animations that are often applied to images to bring about a "video like" quality. The effects can liven up a carousel or can be used with other interactive techniques to make an email more
Interactive Hotspots in Email
Posted in Email Resource, Interactive Email, Interactive Email Tutorials, Kinetic Email by Justin On October 18, 2016
Interactive hotspots, or user initiated information overlays are an effective way to deliver additional contextual information on an image.
This article goes over how to implement hotspots in email as well as showcase some examples of effective hotspot implementations...
This article goes over how to implement hotspots in email as well as showcase some examples of effective hotspot implementations...
Four Interactive Email Fallback Strategies
A key consideration when building interactive email or kinetic campaigns is fallback content planning. Specifically what content to display in clients that do not support interactive email content.
Check out this article to learn the four fallback strategies.
Check out this article to learn the four fallback strategies.
Falling Basketball With CSS Fixed Positioning
This is a cool interactive email featuring a falling basketball. This email takes advantage of the thin and tall nature of a mobile email client for its effect.
Apparently fixed positioning support is going away in iOS10. Here's your last chance to
Apparently fixed positioning support is going away in iOS10. Here's your last chance to
No Absolute Positioning in the Samsung Email Client
Ever since Google discontinued the native Android client, many users on Galaxy phones have turned to Samsung’s email client. This webkit based client – denoted with a red @ seal – comes with some quirks – the lack of absolute positioning a
Responsive Rollover Images for Email
A while back I wrote an article that demonstrated a method to create rollover images in email using background images. However the old method requires the width of the image to be fixed because the background-size property is not uniformly supported by
The Ultimate Email CSS Animation Guide
Alex Ilhan dishes the dirt on CSS animations in email. Lots of juicy techniques to experiment with.
Part 1: Overview, the pros & cons and examples
Part 2: How to code animations
Part 1: Overview, the pros & cons and examples
Part 2: How to code animations