When HTML Email Goes Horribly Wrong
Posted: June 15th, 2007 | Author: Mark Anderson | Filed under: Code, Design, Strategy | Tags: Design, email, Jeffrey Zeldman, newsletters | No Comments »I get a lot of questions about how to make email newsletters visually appealing. While I understand the desire for adding some sizzle to your communications, This entry from design standards champion, Jeffrey Zeldman, outlines the pitfalls that await the HTML emailer.
The article, When is e-mail like a bad website?, deconstructs an HTML email sent from a major cell phone manufacturer, presumably with plenty of resources to perform usability testing (Be sure to look at the screenshots to see how mangled the messge gets). Read the rest of this entry »