Best Practices For Bulletproof E-Mail Delivery - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Have your e-mails already been flagged as spam, although you’ve sent a seemingly legitimate proposal to your client?
Have you ever wondered why the efficiency of your newsletter campaigns suddenly dropped down? In both cases you deal with a problem which is harder to get done with than you think it is: bulletproof e-mail delivery. The main problem with undelivered mails is that both sides — sender and recipient — don’t really know what happened. Was the e-mail sent? This article suggests over 20 bulletproof techniques, best practices and related services you can use to ensure best e-mail and newsletter delivery rates. Where Do We Stand? E-mail is a primarily mean of communication in the Web.
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Now we’d like to send out an email to all of our customers, friends and anyone, and it should look exactly like the website except with a spinning mailbox at the bottom, and have my photo, and my cat’s photo…” Ever had that conversation with a client? You’ve built plenty of websites in your time and could knock off a blog template in your sleep, but HTML email? Seriously? HTML email has the reputation (often well deserved) of being a horrible design medium. The mere mention of it sends some designers into physical shock (try it if you ever get stuck in a tedious conversation about XHTML vs. This article gives you the information you need to plan, design and build an HTML newsletter that renders well and is actually useful to recipients.
If you’d like to get started right now, here are the cheat notes to get you on the right track. Respect your reader. 1. The email inbox is a noisy busy place for a newsletter to land. 2. 3. 4. Useful Web Design E-Mail Newsletters - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement There are thousands of good websites out there offering web design and development tips.
It’s a bit much to sift through in most cases. There must be an easier way. Enter the email newsletter. What could be better than sitting back and waiting for the newest design and development news to be delivered to your inbox? You may be interested in the following useful posts: BlueVertigo Newsletter BlueVertigo5 regularly updates its list of resources related to design and web-development and informs its subscribers about recent updats and new resources. Laura Carlson’s Web Design Update Newsletter Laura Carlson’s legendary Web Design Update newsletter6 sends news, information and tutorials about web design and development.
Ben Hunt’s Web Design Newsletter If you’ve never heard of Web Design From Scratch8, you’re really missing out. Web Smart Newsletter Web Smart newsletters10 are written for advertising agencies to keep them in the loop on what’s happening on the Web. Bokardo Tribune.