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Leo Baake

  • Lead Customer Marketing at Gameforge
  • Karlsruhe, Germany
  • http://corporate.gameforge.com/

I've been working in eMail Marketing for 6 years. Having grinded through dark times designing for Outlook, Gmail etc., I now work in more of a management role. I still enjoy coding emails and finding new and weird workarounds, though!

Joined on November 10, 2015
    Replied to Discussion: Yahoo! min-width by Leo Baake 2018-04-09 16:41:41

    Hey,
    not sure if it will fix it, but that old fix does not look like proper css.
    Try @media screen yahoo { img { min-width: 0 !important; } }

    Replied to Discussion: Web.de & GMX.de Have the same engine by Leo Baake 2018-02-09 15:43:44

    Web.de, gmx(.de/.at/.ch) and 1&1 are all subsidiaries of United Internet. As is mail.com.
    They not only share the same rendering engine but also the same blacklists, complaint thresholds, etc.

    United Internet also owns TrustedDialog, a whitelisting service of the major german email providers. Only TrustedDialog customers can use video content in mails sent to the participating providers.

    Replied to Discussion: MSO hide all in Outlook Web App by Leo Baake 2017-11-23 17:16:56

    I honestly can't remember where I got it from, or I would have credited that source.

    To clarify: It doesn't matter what you write in the attribute selector (as long as it's not too common). The trick is, that Outlook.com/Hotmail strips the Attribute Selector from mails, but leaves the rest of the css rule intact.
    Other mail clients will either strip (gmail) or filter (yahoo) css rules with attribute selectors, or leave them entirely intact, so the selector will keep the css from being applied.

    Replied to Discussion: MSO hide all in Outlook Web App by Leo Baake 2017-10-12 14:49:55

    Hey,

    you can target outlook.com (and Outlook Web App for that matter, which is a totally different thing and a very dark place) by adding the attribute selecor [owa] to the css styles in question.
    So if you add

    <style> [owa] .OutlookHide { display: none } </style>

    to your head, and add the OutlookHide class to the table that contains your form, it won't show in Outlook.com

    Replied to Discussion: Outlook Creating Gap ( 2013, 2016 & DPI versions only) by Leo Baake 2017-09-01 14:32:25

    Have you tried the DPI scaling fix?
    https://litmus.com/community/discussions/151-mystery-solved-dpi-scaling-in-outlook-2007-2013

    Replied to Discussion: Help settle a debate? by Leo Baake 2017-09-01 14:28:38

    The short answer is the unsatisfying one: It depends.

    Good WYSIWYG Editors can save you a lot of trouble and effort (plus, as you mention, you don't need to know code). For simple, straightforward templates, i would say this is the way to go.
    From my own experience though, these Editors (especially those of some ESPs) can reach their limitations very quickly. Some have annoying bugs, others will be slow to adapt to changes made by email providers and with pretty much all of them you will reach a point where you want design something specific that they won't allow.

    So if you want to create a simple template quickly and efficiently, use the editor. If you are like me (and probably a lot of people here) and love being creative and cutting edge in their designs, you'll have to code it yoursellf (using Snippets can save you a lot if time building and help colleagues less apdapt in coding).

    Leo

    PS: I'd like to add that by 'simple' i dont mean 'bland'. If you work in B2B, or your Newsletter is more text-heavy, you'll probably prefer a clean, uncluttered design.

    Replied to Discussion: Image Carousel in Gmail by Leo Baake 2017-06-19 09:50:45

    Hey Michael,

    we have a similar challenge with mostly gmail users. Since gmail stopped supporting checkboxes, they aren't really worth the effort anymore in my opinion.

    Anyway, using hover means a lot of work with fallbacks etc, depending on how you want to position the elements and, but for less complex scenarios it works fine.
    It would take a bit too long to explain how it works, so I'm going to link one of our template here for you to check out (if linking works) http://static.crm.gfsrv.net/mailings/gameforge/Dropzone.html
    There's two carousels there, the gear switch, which is a bit more complex and the sceenshots, which is fairly straightforward.

    Replied to Discussion: Background Image Does Not Stretch Fully in Outlook 2013 and Windows Mail by Leo Baake 2017-05-18 14:52:17

    Hi,

    first of all, if you want the block to be exactly 325px long, there's no point in using a textbox. The fit-shape-to-text part might only screw things up in the end.

    As for the width: use html width instead of css width. Also add width to your container tables.

    Finally Windows Mail 10: Have you tried this? https://litmus.com/community/discussions/6229-windows-10-mail-vml-background-solution

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