Archive for June, 2009

Outlooks Broken - Lets Fix it! Fix Outlook

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Microsoft have just confirmed they plan on using the crippled Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010.

This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position and no background images. Not to mention the long list of bugs and quirks that break the simplest of layouts.

Outlook 2010 is still in beta and Microsoft have confirmed they want to hear your feedback on this decision. It’s time for the email marketing and design community to rally together and encourage Microsoft to embrace web standards before it’s too late.

What’s the best way to do that? Twitter of course.

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Corel Wins Award of Excellence from Society for Technical Communication

Monday, June 1st, 2009
CorelDRAW

CorelDRAW

 

Corel Corporation announced that its documentation team has been recognized with an Award of Excellence from the Society for Technical Communication (STC).

“The CorelDRAW Handbook: Insights from the Experts” won top honors in the International Technical Publications competition receiving praise for its appealing and inviting design, as well as its effectiveness in strengthening readers’ connection to the product. (more…)