Newsletter Design Testing

Testing the Design of your Email Newsletters for Compatibility

Before a newsletter is sent out its important to test the design to ensure it displays properly in the various email software services popular today. Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail etc all have their own quirks when displaying email newsletters.

Newsletter Design Compatibility Testing

We test our newsletter designs in the 17 most popular email clients. The tables below shows desktop and web-based email clients we test on.

Desktop Email Clients	Version
Apple Mail	3
Apple Mail	2.1
Lotus Notes	8
Outlook	2007
Outlook	2003
Outlook	2002/XP
Outlook	2000
Thunderbird	3.0 Beta
Thunderbird	2.0

Web-based Email Clients
Gmail	Gmail (older version)
Live Hotmail	Mail.com
Mobile Me	AOL Mail
Yahoo! Mail	Yahoo! Mail Classic

Why Design Testing is Important

You may already know that unless properly built and tested, websites can display differently in different browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox etc). Email newsletters are even more likely to display inconsistantly if not carefully created.

Inexperienced email newsletter designers are often left frustrated because they are unaware of all of the quirks and their designs 'break'.

Our Email Designs are Quality Assured

It goes without saying that our designs are tested thoroughly as part of the service for our newsletter design clients.