Animation in email
7 key guidelines to assist you in designing animations that enhance your email campaigns
Melaina Gross Mar 17, 2025 3 min read
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Email production
Thin white lines in Outlook
Almost perfect... until Outlook.
Here’s a scenario that happens a lot in email marketing: the email design looks incredible; it’s tested across multiple inboxes with confidence. Each test checks out, but then Microsoft Outlook introduces an unwelcome guest—the dreaded thin white line clearly visible in the colour sections of your emailer.
How to swap images for responsive emails
If you’ve ever wanted to show a different image on your mobile device than on a desktop client, this tutorial is for you!
How to get rid of those pesky purple and blue links in email
One of the pet peeves with the team here at Cantaloupe Digital is discoloured links.
Here's how to set the colour and style of the hyperlinks in your html email newsletter. Especially useful when the default blue link style is messing with your design.
Html email for Outlook
Have you ever wanted to send an extra special email from Outlook but find that your beautiful layout breaks when it arrives in your recipient’s inbox? Formatting html for Outlook can be tricky - help is here.
4 powerful ways you can make your email newsletters (more) accessible
The goal is to make your emailer as accessible as possible in your general approach to email newsletter creation.
How to tweak your emails for dark mode
Dark mode has been a thing since 2019 and it is increasing in popularity so it is worth knowing what you can do to ensure your emails look great in dark mode. Here are some practical ways to do this.
Code snippets for Adobe Dreamweaver
Have you ever thought to yourself, “How can I speed up the process of creating html for my emailers?” Or maybe you’ve wanted to make your coding more efficient and error free for yourself. Well look no further. Code snippets could be just what you need!
How to track link clicks in Outlook
Tracking clicks in your email newsletters and other campaigns can help you measure engagement.
How to create animated gifs for email
Animation is a highly effective way of drawing a reader into your content, sadly email offers limited support for animation! The safest format to use is gif. Here's how to create an animated gif for email.
Artboards in Photoshop
Make responsive email design easier with Photoshop artboards. Visually, artboards serve as individual canvases within a Photoshop document, which simplifies and speeds up the design process. It makes visualising the mailers easier and ensures consistency.
How to use anchor links in emails
Have you ever wondered how to add anchor links into your email newsletter? Keep reading, we’ll tell you what they are, when to use and how to do it!
Boost inbox joy by render testing your emails
There is nothing worse than creating a beautiful email and after sending the email out you receive feedback that it is broken in some email clients or devices. Or, worse still, that your beautiful email doesn’t get delivered but ends up in the spam bucket.
Good news, render testing can save you!
Email templates: custom coded vs email builders
We do the comparisons to bring you the best email template creation options. Template builder vs ready-made email template vs custom-made email template. Which one is best?
Email newsletter template design
Maybe you’ve been tasked with producing your company’s email newsletter or maybe you’ve been doing newsletters for a while and want to compare notes. Either way, if you’d like to know how an email newsletter template is planned and designed then our latest article is for you!