Healthland Email Blast template rendered in different email clients
July 25th, 2009 6:44pm in clients, duz creative, email, email template, healthland, html, tables
We’re very lucky to be working with the folks at DUZ Creative and Lynn Purcell (the wordsmith) for Healthland. Since the design of email communication that goes out to thousands of recipients has its own set of problems when trying to get cross client compatibility, I thought it would be cool to show off how even a somewhat complicated design can be well implemented. We test in many different clients on our own systems — GMail, Yahoo! Mail, Apple Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird — while we are developing but also utilize Campaign Monitor’s Email Client testing suite. It helps us ensure that we’re keeping as close to the original design intention as possible. We’re big fans of Campaign Monitor and use them as much as we can, even when our clients prefer a competitor. Oh, well!
What follows below are three screenshots of what we think is a wide cross section of clients
- a popular web email client — GMail, currently #3
- a modern Mac OS X email client — Apple Mail 3.0, and
- an old, old Windows email client that people still use — Outlook Express
Remember, tables are your friend when creating HTML for email.