I Spy With My Little Eye » Entries tagged with "Email Design"
Promo Job Search Results
As designers, we tend to leave a lot of the tracking and numbers side of things to the marketing and analytics folks. We are, as a species, more interested in whether it worked or didn’t work. We tend to be too inclined to just say, “Give me the results.” But, over the past half-decade, working for a company that is very highly driven by analytics, I’ve learned how useful, and yes, even cool tracking the details of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Email Design, Jobs
CSS: Un-needed IE spacing around DIV elements
Sometimes you stumble upon a stupid solution to a complex problem and its makes you laugh out loud. Anyone who has a love for CSS has a hatred for Internet Explorer. Sorry Microsoft, but its true. … Read entire article »
Filed under: CSS, Tutorials, Web Design
Photoshop: Whitening teeth in a photo with the sponge tool
We’ve all heard the mantra “sex sells”, and if Super Bowl ads are any indication it remains as true now as it was back in 1855 when W. Duke & Sons revived their lagging sales by inserting sexually provocative trading cards inside every pack of cigarettes they sold, taking themselves from also-ran status to one of the leading brands within 5 years. But the truth is, sex selling doesn’t always mean “sex”. Many times it can mean simply portraying a desired outcome to the viewer. Hence he use of “lifestyle” images in most things we designers create today. Whether your customer is a teenage girl or an 80 year old man with arthritis, you want to show them how things not only “could be” but how they “should be”…and thereby subliminally … Read entire article »
CSS Support in email clients
We designers are a finicky lot, and most of us, despite being considered free spirited due to our arty upbringings, are pretty anal retentive when it comes to how our designs are displayed. … Read entire article »
Filed under: CSS, Email Design