Joined Emailcenter in June 2008 as Campaign Manager. Moved to managing and developing custom data integration projects for our larger clients in July 2009, taking the role of Implementation Manager.

There are different schools of thought when it comes to using images in email. There are many people that think you should minimise the usage.

However these are normally given from a functional and technical point of view. From a marketers point of view we know that images say a thousand words and are aspirational.

So what are the reasons given by people for minimising the use of images? Lets go through them one by one and analyse if they are an issue. Read More

The launch of the Microsoft Office 2010 is pencilled for next year (surprising to see the dates matching!) and the first release for testing – the Technical Preview, which is invite-only – has been released.

This has generated a fair bit of talk between email designers, due to the notorious perceived failings of Outlook 2007′s HTML rendering, and whether this will be continued in Outlook 2010. There has even been a bit of a storm whipped up on Twitter, due to the aim of fixoutlook.org to send a rather loud message to the chaps at Microsoft.

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