Email coding guidelines, animated GIF best practices, and understanding Outlook's rendering engine

Starter template redesign

Our Starter template has gotten a redesign with new components and mobile improvements. Every new Blocks Edit account now gets this latest version. To add it to your current account, just download and import the template HTML. 
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Email coding guidelines

A good overview of principles you can apply to code HTML emails.
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10 best practices for animated GIFs in email

Some tips to help you best use GIFs in your emails and newsletters, and enhance your messaging.
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Making sense of Outlook's rendering engine

There are four things that help tame the Windows versions of Outlook: tables, conditional comments, mso properties, and VML.
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