pushing email design forward - completely email conference june 2014 - becs rivett
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Discussing ideas to make your email really up to date in 2014 including several techniques to code nice responsive imagesTRANSCRIPT
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Pushing email design forward!
Becs Rivett@becskr
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Pushing design forwardBecs Rivett
But seriously...
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IE6 is dead...
• So is Lotus Notes 6.5...
• Take a more functionality-led approach
• Graceful degradation
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Funky fonts that fallback nicely
• Huge availability of free-to-use web fonts on Google
• Works on Apple devices, Android and Outlook (sort of)
• Great for mobile when text should be resized upwards to legibility
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Retina images please!
• The age of high density screens
• Choosing the right file format
• Shrink those file sizes with tinypng, jpegmini
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Every time you use a button for an image,
a kitten dies
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• Buttons that show with images off
• Make the whole button clickable, even in Outlook
• We can cheat...and it’s ok! Try buttons.cm
Buttons that work...properly
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V-v-video...
• Video support is getting better...
• Litmus’ background videohttp://pages.litmus.com/webmail/31032/17445841/0af8553b867f60bc74807b56355f44a6
• Fiddly workarounds but a great tutorial over at Email on Acidhttp://www.emailonacid.com/blog/details/C13/a_how_to_guide_to_embedding_html5_video_in_email
• A function too far? Measurability...
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In the shadows
• Some CSS3 like box shadows and text shadows work pretty well across the board
• Get experimental with keyframe animation like Panic...but remember to check your fall backs!Source: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/4035/css3-animation-svg-masks-web-fonts-panics-newsletter
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Responsive layouts
• Don’t get repetitive….Two column image left, text right
• Brian Graves’ Responsive Email Patterns Source: http://briangraves.github.io/ResponsiveEmailPatterns/
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Responsive emails
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Responsive layouts
• Image replacement, not just image resize
• Mobile images comes in many flavours
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Background-size: cover
Code at: http://pastebin.com/sVSSssey
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Image squeeze
Code at: http://pastebin.com/2wvSiZw6
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Relevant content• Agile email
• Contextual information
• Geolocation, Time, Device, Weather, Social, RSS
• Behavioural
• Browsing, purchasing, abandonment behaviours
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Finally...A vaguely topical film