CSS Support in Email
Posted on Nov 30, 2006 02:11:33 PM
Dave Greiner at Freshview tells me that they have put together A Guide to CSS Support in Email . If you are sending out newsletters via email (like we do with our Digital Web Magazine Newsletter) you may want to note this handy resource. The guide covers both desktop clients as well as web based email clients.
We’ve put together this CSS support in email clients guide to save you the time and trouble of figuring it out for yourself. With 21 different sets of results, all the major email systems are covered, both desktop applications and webmail.
Tags: Email, SupportThe Seven Deadly Sins of Email Marketing Management
Posted on Nov 30, 2006 03:49:19 AM
It’s a common belief that email marketing is dead, and that we’ve now entered a Web 2.0 era of blogs, buzzing social networks, and podcasting, but the reality is that email marketing is alive, kicking, and more powerful than ever.
It’s cost-efficient—its ROI (return on investment) is one of the highest out there—and it’s easy to use. It’s also a great branding tool and a trusted way Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Deadly, Email, Management, Marketing, Seven, SinsAmbient Findability
Posted on Nov 29, 2006 03:24:31 AM
Intelligence is moving to the edges, flowing through networked computers, wireless devices, empowered users and distributed teams. Ideas spread like wildfire. Innovations emerge from uncharted borderlands. Information is in the air, literally. We’re exploring a new world called cyberspace, and we’re navigating without a map.
How do we make informed decisions in the information age? How do we know enough to ask the Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Ambient, FindabilityVision Quest
Posted on Nov 27, 2006 04:22:26 AM
While the web contains a vast quantity of multimedia content—photographs, audio, video, animations—the primary task required of most internet users is reading. From e-mail to instant messages to blogs to interactive forms, it is the ancient technology of written language that defines our communications and drives the information economy.
More writing is created on and read from the computer screen than ever before, but Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Quest, VisionSVG: The New Flash
Posted on Nov 26, 2006 10:21:51 AM
Macromedia has been the dominant force behind vector-based graphics and animation on the web for nearly the past 10 years. Times change, and new methods are always on the horizon. The upcoming contender for vector graphics is Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an XML-based language under development by the W3C.
Most readers are aware that in the early 1990's, Macromedia developed a product called Shockwave. Shockwave allowed multimedia Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: FlashCSS Not([hacks])
Posted on Nov 22, 2006 11:25:57 AM
As any web developer worth his salt will know, browsers can differ in their interpretation of CSS rules and properties. One way of coping with this headache is to use various hacks; they might (in some cases) be invalid CSS, but they force browsers to read only certain parts of your CSS and render your page or web site as close to how you intended as possible. CSS hacks are one of the common ways to send specific instructions to different browsers, Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: HacksContent? Or Dis-content?
Posted on Nov 17, 2006 08:41:08 AM
Whenever I’ve been involved in major Web start-ups or redesigns as an information architect, one of the biggest vocabulary challenges involves two of the simplest words: content and design.
To many, content is the gift while design is the shiny giftwrap around it; content is the cargo in the back of the truck while design is the truck’s shape and appearance. Subject matter experts in Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: ContentSmarter Content Publishing
Posted on Nov 12, 2006 05:34:09 AM
Do you remember the days before WYSIWYG word processors when you had to markup the text, much like we markup web documents using HTML? I don't. I started word processing using WYSIWYG applications on the Macintosh and only heard about markup in 1993 when I first saw a website. After all those years of refining the word processor to become a more efficient tool, I had to wonder why we reverted to manually creating markup for the web.
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Tags: Content, Publishing, SmarterCompetitive Analysis, Part 2
Posted on Nov 9, 2006 10:39:35 PM
Excerpted from Chapter 5 of Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning by Dan Brown.
Analyzing the Competition: The Basics
Like any deliverable, a competitive analysis must start with a situation analysis: a hard look at the purpose, the timing, and the audience for the document. These aspects of your situation will drive the document’s contents and design.
The competitive drive##4## Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Analysis, Competitive, PartWeb Redesign 2.0
Posted on Nov 7, 2006 10:47:45 PM
Working as a Web professional in today’s world, you will get to design a site only once. If you’re good and lucky, you’ll get to redesign it many times. In their book Web Redesign 2.0: Workflow that Works, Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler bring us project management best practices Web designers can apply to formalize and professionalize their process to benefit clients big and small.
The Core Process Goto and Cotler describe Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Redesign