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Hey! Let’s chat about responsive design!

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As new devices become available and old devices get updated, screen sizes are going to change. It used to be the case (a couple of years ago) that there were just a few sizes (1024x768px, 1280x1024px, 1366x768px). Nowadays, there are hundreds of combinations! Obviously we can't make a different website to fit on every screen size, so what to do?

Responsive design offers a great solution. It allows us to create one website that adjusts to fit perfectly on any size screen – the font size is always readable, everything lays out in a well-organized and easily navigable manner, images always fit perfectly. It doesn't matter if you are using an Android smartphone, an Amazon Kindle Fire or a MacBook Air.
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Five tips for email template design

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We are happy to see more and more clients jumping aboard the email marketing bandwagon these days. Contrary to what some may perceive as a lesser or weakened channel of communication due to new materializing technologies, it is still the cornerstone to a lot of communication, education, touch points and automated interactions with customers and clients. Be it lead nurturing, event reminders or product announcements, email marketing programs, and the platforms that enable them, provide critical marketing value.

With that understood, we thought it important to relay tips on what we think is an often overlooked or underappreciated aspect of email marketing: the email template design.

Here are five tips to make sure your emails are effective when they land in your subscribers’ inboxes:
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Data Team Manager Bruce Williams reflects on a busy 2011 for his team and in the industry

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Our 2011 recap chatter series continues as Bruce Williams, Data team manager, reviews an eventful year as his team added members and expanded services.

We didn’t sit still in 2011, nor did we sell off our belongings and wait for the apocalypse. Some believe that 2012 will be marking the end of days; we in the development world would simply settle for the end of some inferior browsers as well as the wide adoption of new technologies and services by our clients.

Going through our 2011 yearbook, we found it to be one of the busiest in planning and architecting new, custom solutions with our clients. This past year, we reiterated that we can execute just about any digital project imaginable, and we also found that a good deal of our time was dedicated to mapping and developing new processes and applications for our clients. Not only did these requests come from new clients and potentials, but also from our very valued existing client base.
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The Digital Marketing Stack

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An email just came in from the website! A potential customer emailed you directly after perusing your corporate site and is requesting more information.

You follow up with that customer, of course, with pricing information and await a response.

It never comes. In a month, you forget that potential because your inbox was so cluttered that the emails eventually just caved in on themselves. You never follow up, you never get a chance to discover how they found your site in the first place.

You never post to the website the specific question the customer asked so others might find the answer more quickly because you don’t want to pay a freelance developer hundreds of dollars for some edits. You never mention the topic and answer on Facebook or Twitter because you don’t even know who is listening.

If this sounds ridiculous yet familiar, don’t feel bad. In our experience, there is always something more you as a marketer can be doing to generate more visibility, better service and higher sales.

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Resolving a Web browser quirk: Lines and gaps caused by zooming

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Among the ramifications of being a front-end Web developer is that we’re constantly introduced to unusual new quirks from Web browsers. Today, we bring you a strange rendering quirk from some of the least-quirky browsers. We've observed it on iPad's Safari and on newer versions of Firefox for the Mac. Need a refresher on how browsers affect the way a page displays? Read our recent post on Web pages.

Identifying the problem
We’ve noticed when we zoom in or out on a Web page to a ratio that isn't a multiple of two (such as 150 percent or 66 percent), the site will sometimes have strange lines running through it. Sometimes not. What's going on? The browser is rounding.

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