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Mobile Email: Defining Approaches

With so many different approaches to building mobile-friendly emails, designers are often left confused about which is best. This article takes a look at three of the most popular approaches: scalable, fluid, and responsive.

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Gmail Overview

Gmail is Google's free popular email service. Its huge user-base means that designers have to pay attention to this client, while its odd rendering quirks makes that proposition frustrating. Read on to learn about this tricky webmail client.

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Foundations: Designing Email

What type of layout should I use? What do I need to know about type and images? Learn about the fundamentals of email design and email aesthetics in this Foundations tutorial.

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Which mobile email clients support media queries?

A quick reference for quickly checking media query support in mobile email clients.

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Understanding Rendering Differences

Answering the enduring question: why do some email clients show my email differently than others?

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Big Picture Email Development

An expert in the noble art of “good enough,” Fabio shares insights learned after creating robust, flexible and forgiving mobile friendly templates for over 2.5 million users.

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Easy Ways to Implement Mobile Email

In this live coding session, Elliot covers how to easily create responsive emails with with just three CSS classes.

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Email At Twitter

A fascinating look at how Twitter builds their amazing responsive emails, including tips for Internationalization, secrets to data-driven A/B testing and plenty of innovative messaging techniques you’ve never heard before.

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Five Responsive Email Tips

Five tips in under five minutes! If you’re strapped for time, here are some “quick wins” for making your email experience great for mobile users without the need for media queries and responsive design.

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Pushing The Limits Of Email

Break out of practicing defensive email design and start innovating with with CSS3, SVG animation, email heatmaps and other #nsfo (not safe for Outlook) techniques.

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Designing for (Almost) Every Device

Ros discusses what’s pushing the demand for mobile-friendly newsletters and shares her comprehensive 4-step planning process to design emails for (almost) every device.

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Preparing Campaign Insurance for your Emails

Every system is fallible, especially those made by humans. Campaign insurance, or 'Plan B' helps avoid that.

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