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Why responsive email templates are a “Big deal” and things you should know when designing?

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Usage of smart phone increases rapidly throughout the world making the whole world a big network. Thanks to the mobility, now a day’s people spend a lot of time with smart devices than computers or even laptops. Recent survey statistic shows 80% of the people use smart phones on the go.  ( www.geekymojo.com ) People mostly spend their time using social media and email on their mobiles, also lot of companies now encourage people to work from home and this increases the number of people who use mobiles to access their email even more. Chances of opening an email from a mobile device is increasing rapidly. Now you have a better idea why you must consider optimizing emails for mobiles, the next big thing is to design email templates that is compatible and effective when it comes to small screens. So what are the best practices for designing mobile friendly email templates? The content must be clear Smart phones has much smaller screens than a PC, so it is very im...

Design tips for better email newsletter

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What is the importance of having a well designed email for the next email campaign? well, who wants to read something that is not properly formatted and cluttered? Not even you right? So the design of an email can make a huge difference to your email. if you don't grab the viewers attention by the first impression, that viewer will most likely end up skipping or deleting the email from their inbox. So to grab the first impression of the viewer you need a better designed email template. here are some basic but very important tips for you to check before you send your next email campaign. 1) Your company brand If the viewer can't identify the your brand in the email, they might think this email is a spam and maybe will delete from the inbox. so use your brand effectively when you design email templates. 2) Structured content Who likes to read messed up content that is not properly arranged. So that if you don't grab the attention of the viewer when they open their e...

Google Chrome issue with flash wmode: “transparent”

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Ok I have seen lots of guys having issues with new Google Chrome does not properly render flash movies with transparent backgrounds. I had the same problem and I search every corner of the Internet but left out of luck. So I thought of finding the solution on my own and "Eureka". First I must say that this has nothing to do with the "wmode" parameter. Also this has nothing to do with the way you guys embed the movie into HTML, so don't waste your time trying to change those things. The issue lies with the image rasterization  switching on the Bitmap caching under Display properties will eliminate the issue in Chrome. Bitmap caching The bitmap caching feature is one of the older rasterization features in Flash. Use bitmap caching to allow Flash Player to cache a symbol as a bitmap in RAM memory at runtime. The bitmap caching feature is easy to use. Convert an image to a symbol, make sure it's selected, and then choose the Cache as Bitmap Render ...