I'm having major issues trying to view the page in Chrome(Windows). The page renders fine but the scrollbar is "Choppy". Something he's doing in the page is not agreeing with Chrome. Not sure if I want to take advice from someone that creates a page with such a performance issue.
Drew McClellan is the guy behind 24 Ways (http://allinthehead.com/) and if I remember correctly this design is a couple years old now.
Sidenote, seems Chrome has now entered the "pompous Opera phase", wherein Opera users used to always ignore the fact that they're in the vast minority of web browsers and point out every browser problem they have like it's the designer's fault instead of Opera's for their random rendering bugs.
I know Chrome is only little over a year old, but was surprised as I've never seen it or Safari (WebKit browsers) ever have trouble with a page before.
That's a site for an audience of web developers, so of course it's different from a general-interest site. But 24ways.org is also for web developers, so it's probably a useful piece of input in this case.
(As an aside, scrolling is perfectly smooth for me, in the latest Chrome beta on Linux.)
If that's what you were originally intending something like "Chrome is 7% of the [web developer] market" would be a little more accurate.
Anyway, I was just having some fun, 24ways is a side-project for Drew, so maybe drop him a note and let him know it looks off in Chrome and I'm sure he'll try and find the time to fix it.
do you mean include a plain text and html message...and only one will shop up depending on the email viewer? where can i find out more about this and other best practices wrt sending email newletters and progress reports to users?
Firefox on linux on a slow laptop/internet connection but the site loaded rather quickly compared to sites like new york times and reuters among others
Yes. I just had to open Task Manager to figure what the hell was going on. This box isn't amazing, but a dual core proc being pegged using Chrome to render a web page feels a bit absurd.
Forget it. Email should be terse, and plain text, especially if it's unsolicited. Anything long or full of images and multiple fonts goes straight to the "Junk" folder.
Seeing advice to the tune of "don't do it because it's bad!" causes my Hacker sense to sound off alarms. I have to tell myself "You are not the average user!" three times a day, and I'm just making stupid Facebook games.
HTML email is absolutely something you should test. Take 10% of your email list and hit them with an HTML-ized version of your marketing email. How did they respond? Did they buy more or less? Did they unsubscribe?
Asking "Do people want an HTML email?" is the wrong question. Asking "Do people spend more from an HTML email?" is the right question. Anything less from a startup is leaving money on the table.
I have to tell myself "You are not the average user!" three times a day
Exactly. I generate an awful lot of HTML email - it goes to people who want to open their Outlook in the morning and have a bunch of stuff summarized in graphs and tables. It's trivial to generate reports this way. Weirdly some people prefer their reports as an email saying "please see attached report" and the content itself in a PDF! That's easy enough too tho' shrug
Just beware blackberry users. Their email clients suck donkey dong. Some newer clients can handle basic html formatting (tables et.al.) though they still can't wrap text in a pleasing way.
I got burned by this earlier in the year when I made the mistake of assuming business people would be able to read html-formatted email (and they were all on BB)
The old chestnut about "assume" making an "ass of you and me" is true :-(
I like having the ability to include basic formatting in emails, like italics. What I really want is not HTML email, but Markdown email. That would be just about perfect.
I think the guy has a monkey on his back. But I agree with him about emails being both profitable and the importance of making the end users experience a smooth one.
