{"id":2000,"date":"2012-04-25T09:49:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T09:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emailmovers.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2012-04-25T09:49:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T09:49:37","slug":"email-design-tip-4-dont-get-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/04\/25\/email-design-tip-4-dont-get-animated\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Design Tip #4: Don&#8217;t Get Animated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3951 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/emailmovers.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2-errorFree.png\" alt=\"tick\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>Like so many other aspects of HTML email, animation is considered problematic. Most email programs simply will not be able to render it.<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0got a great animation or movie to show to your recipients, just send a simple, GIF or JPEG graphic in your HTML email and then link it to a \u201clanding page\u201d on your website with the animation in it.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for ActiveX and movie files. Anti-virus applications block them from running. So, fancy rollover or pop-up navigation and streaming videos just aren\u2019t going to work either.<\/p>\n<p>Avoid using JavaScript. Most email software will disable it anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do not use the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JavaScript<\/li>\n<li>Flash<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This type of content will not render in certain Email inboxes.<\/p>\n<p>More useful email design tips are available in the<a title=\"Download our new email design guide\" href=\"https:\/\/emailmovers.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/download-our-email-design-guide\">\u00a0Essential Guide to HTML Email Design<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many other aspects of HTML email, animation is considered problematic. Most email programs simply will not be able to render it. If\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0got a great animation or movie to show to your recipients, just send a simple, GIF or JPEG graphic in your HTML email and then link it to a \u201clanding page\u201d on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/04\/25\/email-design-tip-4-dont-get-animated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Email Design Tip #4: Don&#8217;t Get Animated&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-email-design","category-email-design-tips","tag-email-design-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seotester.auracreativemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}