Interactive Email

Interactive Shopping Widget for Email

This example shows how you can create an interactive carousel in email that leverages the power of form support to add products to a shopping cart...

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‘Hamburger’ Collapsible Menu in Email

Jerry Martinez posted on the Litmus Community forum that he had implemented a version of the hamburger menu in emails. I thought it was so awesome that I just had to share it!

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Interactive Tabs for Email

Wouldn't it be cool if you could create interactive tabs that work in email? Well here's a technique to create tabs that work in both mobile and webmail, yes including Gmail using the Read More

Make your email interactive in Gmail by using CSS attribute selectors

A few days back I posted the article Gmail Supports the Style tag!... Well sort of when I discovered that you could simulate CSS class selectors in Gmail by targeting attributes that Gmail does not strip such as the title attribute.

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Gmail supports the Style tag!… Well sort of

Will you be surprised to hear you can actually put CSS including pseudo-classes like :hover in a <style> block and have them work in Gmail? Well as I found out recently, you can! ...

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4 Email Examples that are Pushing the Envelope of Email

Animated gifs can be an effective technique to increase reader engagement by catching the eye of the recipient. There are a number of alternative innovative ways to boost reader engagement, and here are 4 of my favorites in terms of originality and

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Gmail Please Fully Support The Style Tag #CanHasStyle

Dear Gmail,

Thank you for all the wonderful new innovations in Gmail over the past year: Action Buttons, Related Google+ Page Widget, Inbox Tabs and most recently Grid View. They're all very exciting for us

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Tool to Create an Interactive Image in an Email

Over the past several months some readers have expressed interest in using some of the interactive email techniques covered by some of my blog posts.

In an effort to make these techniques even more accessible I created a Read More

How to Create an Image Carousel for Email – Part 2 [Web & Desktop]

In Part 1 we saw how we can create a thumbnail driven image carousel for mobile email. This article will go over how to add support for Web & Desktop email clients such as Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com and Outlook 2003...

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How to Create an Image Carousel for Email – Part 1 [Mobile]

This is a two part article that will walk through how to build a thumbnail driven image carousel in an email. In this post we will work on getting it to work on mobile clients - specifically the native iPhone and Android

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