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Email on Acid’s Choose Your Adventure Interactive Email

Posted in Interactive Email, Kinetic Email by Justin On August 27, 2017

I built an interactive email for Email on Acid’s 4th of July campaign with a “Choose Your Adventure” format. The email featured a scenario that is so familiar to those of us who build email campaigns, where a bug is discovered right

“Fake” Background Image Technique for Gmail App for Non Google Accounts (GANGA)

Posted in Email, letsfixemail by Justin On August 16, 2017

Rémi Parmentier wrote about an experimental technique that allows background images to work in the Gmail Android App for Non Google Accounts (GANGA). You see when Gmail announced support for embedded styles and media queries in the Gmail App, they neglected to

My Interview With MailChimp

Posted in Interactive Email, Kinetic Email, letsfixemail by Justin On August 12, 2017

I was interviewed by the folks at MailChimp for a newsletter series they were doing on interactive email. FreshInbox: On a Mission to Take Interactive Email Mainstream FreshInbox founder Justin Khoo — who started his career as an internet engineer for GE, built websites

The New Yahoo! Mail and How to Target It

Posted in Digest, Email, letsfixemail by Justin On August 10, 2017

Yahoo! Mail released an update that came with a new UI, a few new features and some performance improvements. Yahoo! Mail also made some tweaks on how they process CSS as well. The significant change is that the new Yahoo! Mail no

Labels With Images May Not Be Clickable in Internet Explorer

Posted in CSS Help, Interactive Email by Justin On August 8, 2017

If you've been experimenting with interactive email, you may find that carousels with image thumbnails may not trigger in Yahoo! Mail or AOL when viewed in Internet Explorer even though they support interactivity. Thankfully there are workarounds that allow you put

Email on Acid Releases Plugins for Chrome and Dreamweaver

Posted in Email Resource by Justin On July 26, 2017

Email on Acid releases plugins to speed up email testing by letting email developers kick start tests directly from Chrome and Dreamweaver.

EOA Chrome Extension

EOA Dreamweaver Plugin

Targeting AOL Mail

Posted in CSS Help, Email Resource by Justin On July 18, 2017

If your design needs some tweaking in AOL Mail, this article covers some techniques you can use to target your fixes just for this email client.

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Cheetah Digital Report: Kinetic Email Increases Click-to-Open Rate by 10%

Posted in Email Marketing, Kinetic Email, Uncategorized by Justin On July 12, 2017

Cheetah Digital (Formerly Experian Cross Channel Marketing) released their 2016 Q4 Quarterly email benchmark report earlier this year. A portion of their report covered the topic of Kinetic or Interactive Email. There report gives a good overview on what kinetic email can

Implementing Navigation Controls in Image Carousels for Email

Posted in CSS Help, Digest, Kinetic Email by Justin On June 15, 2017

This article goes into the nitty gritty of using the CSS :checked selector and checkboxes to implement navigation controls for a carousel in email.

Image Map Support in Email Clients

Posted in CSS Help, Digest by Justin On May 27, 2017

There is a misconception that image maps are poorly supported among email clients. This article goes over which clients support image maps as well as some of the advantages and disadvantageous of using them in your campaigns.