Things it all comes down to
According to the Google, "it all comes down to".....
- ...money
- ...you
- ...size
- ...Iraq
- ...buttons
- ...software
- ...trust
- ...enforcement
- ...politics
- ...control
- ...oil
It all comes down to this.
Vimeo is silky smooth
During the production of the Email Standards Project video, I needed to find a hosting service to serve the video.
We were anticipating quite a few views (over 1600 so far), so the bandwidth costs would be significant. Our main priority in selecting a service was quality, which meant no tiny and heavily compressed Youtube. We'd seen Vimeo used before and decided to check it out. Good choice, as it turned out.
A message to the Gmail team
Envy my job! I spent a few hours putting together the above video for the Email Standards Project, a community effort to improve the way HTML and CSS is rendered in major email clients. Gmail in particular has made some odd decisions as far as stripping out all CSS except the inline styles.
Web Directions South: User Experience
On May 16th I will be speaking at the Web Directions South event in Melbourne, subtitled “User Experience”. It’s a two day event with workshops on the 15th and the conference proper on the 16th. The Web Directions team has always produced great events in the past; I particularly enjoyed the Sydney conference last year where Freshview had a booth and gave away an iMac.
The user experience theme promises some interesting talks, and there are people coming who will definitely be worth hearing. I’m particularly looking forward to Oliver Wiedlich on the mobile web. My presentation is titled “Delivering user experience to the inbox: designing for email”, our area of expertise at Freshview.
Email is definitely not the new hotness for web designers, and HTML email has (in some cases deservedly) a bad reputation. In fact, when I spoke at the Future of Web Design in NY last year, fully half the audience put up their hands when I asked “Who hates HTML email?”. So I’ve got my work cut out for me.
So if you can make it to Melbourne in May, I’d love to see you at Web Directions South: User Experience.
