Our HTML email research roundup
Posted by Mathew Patterson on July 3, 2008
If you are relatively new to Campaign Monitor, or you don't always follow the blog, you might have missed some of the HTML email support research we have done in the past.
Here are links to our most popular posts on some tricky facets of HTML emails:
- What CSS is supported in email clients? (just updated for 2008)
- Does Flash work in emails?
- Can I use forms in my emails?
- Which clients block my images?
- Do animated gifs render in email clients?
- Will image maps work in an email?
You might be able to save yourself a lot of time and hassle by visiting these pages next time your client has an odd request. If there is other technical support issues for HTML email you'd like to know about, just leave us a comment below.
We're always looking out for more useful information we can provide to make at least the technical side of HTML emails easier.
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Anna Yeaman
wrote on July 4, 2008 4:04 AM
I just ran a test (using CM testing tool) to see if you should overlay images with HTML text in email. Land's End recently started using this technique to fight image suppression (before all their text was image based) and I imagine lots of other retailers will soon follow suit.
Anyway you can check out the results on my blog and view examples - if you're too busy the main hold out was Outlook 2007, it dumped the underlining image altogether. If anyone has a work around let me know.
http://stylecampaign.com/blog/?p=26
Diana
wrote on July 5, 2008 4:36 AM
Anna,
Unfortunately, Outlook 2007 doesn't support background images; there isn't a way to work around it.
Anna Yeaman
wrote on July 5, 2008 1:20 PM
Thanks Diana,
I guess if you want to use this technique you should run a test using Fingerprint to see how many of your subscribers use Outlook 2007.... then design accordingly.
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