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Sending email newsletters is an effective way of marketing and communicating with your clients and customers, and can serve you best when designed properly to attract potential customers, as well as the attention of your existing customers. Email newsletters are a powerful medium to maintain an extra connection with your audience beyond just the reach of your website alone.

Email newsletters allow you to keep your clients and customers in the loop with latest things that are happening, and products to pay attention for. In this way, you can build a healthy relationship with your customers and can significantly increase your sales. Now get a load of these exceptional Graphic Email Newsletter Designs for your inspiration.

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Heroes Over Europe
This is one of the most creatively and skillfully designed newsletters in the showcase, which truly stands out among the rest.

Percept Brand Design
A creatively designed newsletter created keeping the target audience in mind. Sufficient space is allotted for the content as well.

ScrapBlog
Very well designed newsletter that not only attracts the customers with its alluring graphics but also informs them in detail about the ScrapBlog.

EVE Online
This is one of the best newsletter designs in this collection that uses high quality and visually alluring graphics to grab the attention of their potential customers and buyers.

eMAG Newsletter
This newsletter brings extremely high contrast colors and top notch quality graphics into play that will for sure grab the attention of onlookers.

The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom
To portray the dramatic nature of the game, a dark black theme is chosen for this newsletter. Furthermore, customers are also informed that it is available on Xbox Live Arcade.

Icon Inc.
This newsletter design perfectly matches with their tagline “Your Creative Partner�. The newsletter is actually presented as if you are reading a newspaper.

Think
The main content area is highlighted against the vividly colored background so that visitors do not get distracted and read the entire newsletter.

Bioshock
The use of high quality graphics in this newsletter is making it stand out from the rest in this collection.

Dress Up Diana
The adage “A picture worth thousands words� best defines the nature of this collage like newsletter design.

Brandtalk
A simple and memorable design for the branding purpose. Here, Brandtalk used a unique approach to represent Nike’s logo.

Sephora
A wonderfully designed newsletter for promoting beauty products. The use of excellent graphics and color contrast helps in making this newsletter more appealing and stylish.

Paul Frank Industries
Excellent use of graphics to call attention to their flat rate shipping.

Elizabeth Davis
This newsletter is started with a catchy line that not only grabs the attention of the readers but also makes them read the entire newsletter to find to the solution of their problem.

Manual Design
In this design, you can see that more emphasis is given to the content of the newsletter rather than the images, yet it looks visually startling.

Urban Outfitters
This newsletter is primarily intended to market their limited time Free shipping campaign, and therefore is designed accordingly.

Threadless
With this newsletter, Threadless is promoting their Classics Sale. By specifying the date this sale will end, they urge the customers to avail themselves of the offer right now.

Action Method
iPhones are everywhere and it is quite difficult to cater to such a huge market with a single newsletter but Action Method has successfully accomplished this difficult task.

Paul Frank Earth Day
Simple graphics with the detailed information on the celebration of Earth Day.

Garden Sheds
Garden Sheds uses lots of color variation to give this newsletter an eye-catching look. The content of the newsletter is the main area of focus.

Lonely Planet
Light refreshing color is used as the background for this newsletter design that is pleasing to the eyes. The purpose of the newsletter is defined with the help of supporting text placed beneath the image.

Juxt Interactive
Not much content is placed in this newsletter rather Juxt Interactive puts lots of emphasis on the graphical elements.

IrelandHotels
With a breathtaking look at Ireland accompanied by the necessary details on going, there is enough in this newsletter to attract potential tourists to check out the hotel for their next trip for sure.

ExpoLit09
Use of high contrast color combination compels the visitors’ eyes drawing them to the content of the newsletter.

Life’s Not Fair But….My Knickers Are
Since the newsletter is about a feminine brand, the newsletter is also given a very feminine look by using loads of pink shades.

Club VTech
This newsletter is also designed keeping the target audience in mind i.e. kids. Therefore, they use graphics and images that will appeal to youngsters.

Owl City
Here, you can notice a more sophisticated and professional approach is being taken to impress the potential clients. Visitors are thoroughly informed about each and every thing the company has to offer.

Nike – Run it Your Way
Nike like its simple and effective logo design created a neat and visually attractive newsletter that fulfills its primary action.

Nation Toys
A funky design that is well suited for the toys outlet. This one would definitely appeal young children and teens alike.

Totally Rad
Loads of information is provided with this newsletter to inform visitors how they can follow Totally Rad on Twitter and get special goodies.

Envato
Envato captures the attention of their prospective clients with unbelievably amazing graphics. You can see that the content is not being highlighted much.

Indiemark
A very cool and soothing design that mainly focuses on the content of the newsletter.

Fitness 5022
Fitness 5022 has incorporated a fitness video to give their visitors an idea of what they can expect if they join Fitness 5022.

Ragged Edge Design
Ragged Edge Design makes use of a sophisticated template that equally puts emphasis on the graphics and content of the newsletter.

Bonobos
Bonobos follows a unique marketing approach in this newsletter by showing a high quality picture of a shirt to give an idea of the quality of the product and then they follow up with how you will be entitled to a huge discount by purchasing in bulk.

Apple iPod summer accessories email
Again in this newsletter, graphics are emphasized more as compared to the text.

Making Ideas Happen
Here the white space is used for this newsletter to more effectively highlight the content along with the places you can get this book from.

Paul Frank Newsletter
Paul Frank always sends prompt newsletters associated with any recent or upcoming events. Here, they are celebrating Mother’s Day by offering all of Mom’s favorite items at a discount.

Australia Post
A simple but effective design that executes its purpose even without the use of much content and images.

Pizza
A yummy and delicious pizza on the plain background in enough to captivate the onlookers.

ADC Young Guns
An extremely artistic approach that uses bizarre graphics against simple grey background to perplex the potential customers and make them read till the end.

Apple
Loads of Apple iPhones are placed in the shape of a heart to exemplify the love that we all have for the device. Imaginative use of beautiful graphics.

Banana Republic
Main area to be focused here is their offer that says 25% off after the five style event. Banana Republic is quite clear on what they want to be highlighted as their best selling point.

Bing
Bing introduced lots of new things in the word of the internet and here with this newsletter they invite their users to find out what’s popular on Bing.

Miche Bag
A well suited template design for the offer being given through this newsletter. Very well thought out and executed!

Jon Burgerman
Equal importance is given to the content and graphics to grab as many customers as possible. The huge empty space highlights the content.

Made
High contrast color graphics are placed against simple and white background that make the graphical elements shine.

MapMyRide.com
The excitement of cycling is the focus here. The appealing graphics and catchy tagline are the key components of this newsletter design.

StarbucksStore.com
A subtle approach is taken in this newsletter design. It is neither over loaded with the graphics nor with content. On the whole it is a decent approach.

The Plebs
The snapshot of their recently initiated shop is placed against a black background in order to call attention to the shop only.

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In a recent project I was working on a script interacting with an image map consisting of irregular areas and needed to find the center of each of these areas.

I couldn’t find a function to do that so I wrote my own. It’s pretty simple, but in case anyone else needs this I thought I’d share.

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The hard work of front-end designers never ceases to amaze us. Over the last months, we’ve seen Web designers creating and presenting a plethora of truly remarkable CSS techniques and tools. We have collected, analyzed, curated and feature latest useful resources for your convenience, so you can use them right away or save them for future reference.

Please don’t hesitate to comment on this post and let us know how exactly you are using them in your workflow. However, please avoid link dropping, but share your insights and your experience instead. Also, notice that some techniques are not only CSS-based, but use HTML5, JavaScript, or JavaScript-libraries as well. Thanks to all featured designers and developers for inspiring, hard work.

CSS Techniques

Rotational Sliders
Eric Meyer shares six of his animated transforms that are capable of sliding around to a particular extent with non-centered transform origins.

Generating Organic Randomness with Prime Numbers and CSS
At first, you may be wondering why the heck is Alex Walker talking about cicada’s and Web design. Once taking a closer look, a sort of connection between the two evolves and a ‘cicada principle’ is born.

CSS3 3D Hologram
Being inspired by holographic effects that can be achieved with HTML/CSS, Hakim El Hattab has developed his own 3D box which alters perspective depending on device orientation. Note that this requires a webkit browser and has only been tested on iPhone. Also make sure to visit more of Hakim’s CSS/HTML5 experiments.

Checkerboard, striped & other background patterns with CSS3 gradients
You’re probably familiar with CSS3 gradients by now, including the closer to the standard Mozilla syntax and the verbose Webkit one. I assume you know how to add multiple color stops, make your gradients angled or create radial gradients. What you might not be aware of, is that CSS3 gradients can be used to create many kinds of commonly needed patterns, including checkered patterns, stripes and more. Also, check out Lea’s CSS3 Patterns Gallery

CSS3 Keyboard
Click in the box and start typing on your computer’s keyboard. Cleverly developed by Dustin Cartwright and Dustin Hoffman. You’ve got to respect the amount of time and effort which went into producing this demo.

CSS3 Progress Bars
A couple of nice progress bars created by Chris Coyier that use no images — just CSS3 fancies. In browsers that do not support CSS3, these progress bars will look more simplified.

Hover on “Everything But�
A tutorial by Chris Coyier which shows us how easy adding a hover state to an element can be. In this case, the hover state is applied to everything but the element actually being hovered over.

Creating a Sphere With 3D CSS
With CSS3’s 3D trans­forms it’s possible to cre­ate a sphere-like object, albeit with many elements. Paul Hayes shares his version of a 3D CSS sphere (works in the latest Safari and iOS) and provides us with the coding needed.

CSS3 Planetarium
This demo highlights leading edge CSS3 and HTML5 features that Mozilla Firefox and the open web community push into modern Web browsers.

Natural Object-Rotation with CSS3 3D
A tutorial by Dirk Weber that teaches us how to build a 3D packshot in HTML and CSS by applying some CSS 3D-transforms. By adding some Javascript, we can make the object freely rotatable in 3D space. And as we will enhance our Javascript with some touch-interactivity, the packshot will also work nicely in Safari for iOS-platforms like iPhone or iPad.

CSS Drop-Shadows Without Images
Nicolas Gallagher shares presents his CSS drop-shadows without any images.

Incrementable Length Values in Text Fields
Lea Verou explains how to implement a feature that allows you to increment or decrement a <length> value by pressing the up and down keyboard arrows when the caret is over it.

Beveled Corners & Negative Border-Radius with CSS3 Gradients
Beveled corners and simulate negative border radius without images, by utilizing CSS3 gradients once again — Lea Verou is amazed by how many CSS problems can be solved with gradients alone. Works on Firefox 3.6+, latest Webkit Nightly builds, Chrome and Opera 11.10.

Flexible Height Vertical Centering With CSS, Beyond IE7
Roger Johansson shares his thoughts on how to improve centering an element both horizontally and vertically with the display:table alternative.

Coding up a semantic, lean timeline
This article tells you how to create a semantic lean timeline.

CSS Border Tricks with Collapsed Boxes
These border tricks tricks will help you to display content outside of the content box, over borders, without the use of images, CSS3 gradients or extraneous markup.

Quick Tip: Nonintrusive CSS Text Gradients
Jeffrey Way shows some ways for creating pure CSS text-gradients with a bit of trickery. The key is to use a mix of attribute selectors, webkit-specific properties, and custom HTML attributes.

Bokeh with CSS3 Gradients
Divya Manian uses the CSS gradients and shows the results of his work on a project which uses a bunch of circles as a decorative background.

Different Transitions for Hover On / Hover Off
Chris Coyier tries to acchieve “different transitions on mouseenter and mouseleave”, but he isn’t using JavaScript here; we’re talking about CSS :hover state and CSS3 transitions. Hover on, some CSS property animates itself to a new value; hover off, a different CSS property animates.

Styling children based on their number, with CSS3
Lea Verou shows how to style children of elements based on their total number (that is, their total count).

CSS Modal
Using CSS3 tech­niques a modal box can be cre­ated with­out JavaScript or images. With a bit of ani­ma­tion, tran­si­tion and trans­form, it can be made that lit­tle bit more special. The problem: when you hit the “Back”-button after the modal has popped up and was closed, you’ll see the modal again. But maybe you’ll come with a way to fix it?

Rotating Feature Boxes
The full effect of it (with transition animations) will work in newish WebKit and Opera browsers and Firefox 4 (in real beta as of today). Any other browser will rotate the blocks without transition animation.

When and How to Visually Hide Content
Visually hiding content on a web page, usually textual content, is at times a viable technique in web design and development. It can be done for several reasons, most importantly, to improve the experience of a screen reader user. Other reasons include improving readability when CSS cannot be rendered, and improving search engine optimization (SEO). Other exaples about using the Visually Hide Content are shown in this article.

How to avoid common CSS3 mistakes
The new features of CSS3 bring with them complexity and new things for us to screw up. This article will help keep us in check as we start using these new features.

Introduction to CSS Escape Sequences
Escape sequences are useful because they allow style sheet authors to represent characters that would normally be ignored or interpreted differently by traditional CSS parsing rules. In this article Mert Tol shows how to use these sequences.

Wrapping Long URLs and Text Content with CSS
To wrap long URLs, strings of text, and other content, you can just apply a carefully crafted chunk of CSS code to any block-level element .

CSS Generated Content
Trevor Davis shows on some examples what you can do with the CSS generated content.

Controlling width with CSS3 box-sizing
An incredibly useful CSS3 feature when you’re creating columns with floats is box-sizing. It lets you choose which box sizing model to use – whether or not an element’s width and height include padding and border or not. It makes it much easier to define flexible widths where you also need padding and/or borders. A typical example is laying out forms, which can be a real pain when you want flexible widths.

Revisit Hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries
Shi Chuan takes a close look at boilerplates and helps us understand the math we need to tweak the width required for a good resolution to any particular device.

iPad Orientation CSS
Keith Chu revises Cloud Four’s work and finds a way to alleviate extra HTTP requests, not iPad-specific as well as lack of reusability. In this post, he shares with us his proposed revision to the iPad orientation CSS.

CSS Value Lengths, Times, Frequencies and Angles
In this article the authors go over all the math type units that can be applied as property values in CSS.

CSS Tools

320 and up
‘320 and Up’ prevents mobile devices from downloading desktop assets by using a tiny screen’s stylesheet as its starting point. Try this page at different window sizes and on different devices to see it in action.

CSS3 Generator – By Eric Hoffman and Peter Funk
This generator was proudly designed by Eric Hoffman and coded by Peter Funk.

CSS Pattern Generator
Patternify is a simple pattern generator that enables you to not only build your patterns online, but export them with the base64 code, so you don’t even need an image file anymore. Just include the code in your CSS and you’re ready to go. Created by Sacha Greif.

Griddle.it – Web page alignment made easy
A clean and simple way to help align your layouts. No complex grid frameworks necessary.Just put your dimensions after our URL to get a background guide image to work with in your browser. Grids are created on the fly, so any combination should work.

The 1140px Grid: Fluid down to mobile
The 1140 grid fits perfectly into a 1280 monitor. On smaller monitors it becomes fluid and adapts to the width of the browser.

Fighting the @font-face FOUT
Paul Irish’s 2011 update for the @font-face FOUT issue. Good news: Firefox 4 has no FOUT, IE9 does, and FOUT-b-GONE will help you out with that.

CSS3 Github Buttons
CSS3 Buttons is a simple framework for creating good-looking GitHub style button links.

CSS3 Facebook Buttons
CSS3 Facebook Buttons

Minimee
On the Internets, speed is everything – which means that when it comes to CSS & Javascript files, size DOES matter. By automatically minimizing and combining your files for you, Minimee takes the heavy lifting out of keeping your files svelte.

Live.js
one script closer to designing in the browser.

Bootstrap.less
Bootstrap is a pack of mixins and variables to be used in conjunction with LESS, a CSS preprocessor for faster and easier web development.

Animatable: Create CSS3 animations and advertising for Webkit browsers
Animatable is the easy way to create CSS3 animations and advertising for Webkit browsers on any platform or device — including Android, BlackBerry, iOS and WebOS.

Ceaser: CSS Easing Animation Tool
Ceaser is an CSS Easing Animation Tool.

Shower
This is provided without warranty, guarantee, or much in the way of explanation.

CSS Pivot
This tool allows you to add CSS styles to any website, and share (and adjust) the result with a short link.

Roots WordPress Theme
Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on HTML5 Boilerplate, Blueprint CSS (or 960.gs) and Starkers that will help you rapidly create brochure sites and blogs.

Free Online CSS3 Typeset Style Generator
An advanced generator of CSS buttons; the tools allows you to define font and color variations, shadows, borders, corners etc.

CSSPrefixer
You hate writing vendor prefixes for all browsers? The CSSPrefixer does it for you.

Type-a-file
This tool will give your Web typography a head start. Type-a-file is essentially a small collection of CSS stylesheets with heavy focus on rich and beautiful typography. The tool uses Typekit to preview the stylesheets, so if you have a Typekit-account, you could purchase the font license and have exact the same typography on your website.

A Best Practice Baseline for Your Mobile Web App
Mobile Boilerplate is your trusted template made custom for creating rich and performant mobile web apps. You get cross-browser consistency among A-grade smartphones, and fallback support for legacy Blackberry, Symbian, and IE Mobile.

Code Beautifier
This tool allows you to format, clean up and optimize your stylesheets.

Markup Generator
Markup Generator is a simple tool created for HTML/CSS coders that are tired of writing boring frame code at the very beginning of slicing work.

CSS Sprite Generator
This tool allows you to create and maintain your CSS sprites.

Respond
A fast & lightweight polyfill for min/max-width CSS3 Media Queries (for IE 6-8, and more)

Adapt.js – Adaptive CSS
Adapt.js simply checks the browser width, and serves only the CSS that is needed, when it is needed.

Firmin, a JavaScript animation library using CSS transforms and transitions
Firmin is a JavaScript animation library that uses CSS transforms and transitions to create smooth, hardware-accelerated animations.

Command-line CSS spriting
The author shows, how to create CSS sprites from the command line alone.

Last Click

Code Standards
This document contains normative guidelines for web applications built by the Interface Development practice of Isobar North America (previously Molecular). It is to be readily available to anyone who wishes to check the iterative progress of our best practices.

How to Manage CSS Explosion
A very useful thread on StackOverflow on how to keep CSS files organized and clean.

Related Posts

CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions
The main goal of the article is to present powerful new CSS techniques, encourage experimentation in the design community and push CSS forward.

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