Author: Elliot Ross

Design Taxi Example: Changing Mailing Permissions

Design Taxi Example: Changing Mailing Permissions

Examples of permission-updating emails are few and far between. They’re what you should use in an ideal world when you do things like change the frequency or content of your email campaigns – to communicate to your list that from now on they’re getting something…

The Fold and Email Marketing

The Fold and Email Marketing

Every so often email marketers start to get concerned about ‘the fold’, or it’s equivalent ‘the preview pane’. We look at where the break is, which content will be displayed in the first screen of our campaign, and then start planning our content hierarchy and…

Email Inspiration: GAP Animated Christmas Email – Get your gifts there on time

Email Inspiration: GAP Animated Christmas Email – Get your gifts there on time

Gap Europe’s last minute Christmas campaign features an interesting animated GIF – depicting a present being unwrapped, and revealing the latest order times to ensure delivery before Christmas. Whilst usually it’s advisable to avoid locking such important information within the frame of an animated image,…

Design Inspiration: Herman Miller Campaign

Design Inspiration: Herman Miller Campaign

This campaign from Herman Miller demonstrates that it’s possible to produce an email campaign that’s really well designed, whilst still adhering to technical best practice.

Making Superscript Tags Work In Email

Making Superscript Tags Work In Email

Often in marketing emails we need to apply caveats to pieces of copy, linking to terms and conditions below or on a separate page1. However, just using the <sup> tag to superscript text can cause issues with line height in certain email clients and browsers. The following…