email fold size????
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- pixelchef
Would you say 250px is around about standard for the preview panel fold in most email clients?
I normally do design it around that size, but have been challenged by a technical company saying it should be way less than 250px high!!!
What do you think?
Ta
- skt0
impossible to say. maybe you should just put all your emails in the subject line to be sure.
- Bottlerocket0
he he he
250 is a pretty narrow viewing area.
What is this obsession jobsworths have with pages that scroll. Thats how the web/applications works.
Do they complain about turning pages on a book?
- pixelchef0
HaHa... I know
I thought it was alittle on the small side, i just going to go with how i normally do it.
There is nothing on the web saying what is the standard!!!
Cheers
- uncle_helv0
Yeah web monkeys are cocks!
- Dancer0
we talking height here as I see this as irrelevant. I generally do the width at 750px wide.
On a side note I did an html email a while back that when printed was 4 a3 pages long (portrait)
- maximillion_0
ppl read emails now?
- skt0
only if they have google
- maximillion_0
phew.
the delete routine is my pre-work warm up
- pixelchef0
Thanks poomoo
- CyBrain0
I use 400
- Bottlerocket0
They have no point as you can scroll. Don't you ever scroll down through emails? Are all your word docs on one page?
Placing key messaging at the top of an email is vital, but thats part of any messaging heirarchy you will develop for the email design.
- skt0
there is no set space for displaying messages in outlook. people shift it about all the time. well, i do anyway.
- Bottlerocket0
Exactly. Just like they resize windows. All you can do is make sure the key messages are displayed as prominantly as possible..and having them near the top is the easiest way to do this.
- Nairn0
"They have no point as you can scroll. Don't you ever scroll down through emails? Are all your word docs on one page?"
You're kind of missing the point - most people don't care about your pretty advert - they have a short attention span.
You can flip pages in magazines, for sure, but the adverts towards the front, at top and on odd-numbered pages cost more than even-ones at bottom in the middle.
That's why the area of attention is called 'above the fold'.
Don't get me wrong, I think 250px is a bit extreme, but you can work around it - you just need the Loud Shout there, then you can have all your lovely aesthetic doodling below, once you've attracted your punters' attention.
- Bottlerocket0
agreed. Which is why I wrote after that:
"Placing key messaging at the top of an email is vital, but thats part of any messaging heirarchy you will develop for the email design."
- Nairn0
I got caught up in the moment.
- Nairn0
What's with this Facebook resurgence? All I hear these days is 'Facebook, Facebook, Facebook,' - I thought it was a hideaway for American Lit students and paranoid Russians?
What's your facebookspace, Dancer?
(thereby completely undermining point of thread)
- Nairn0
twat.