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Send Email Campaigns Fearlessly with this Preflight Checklist

The following is a guest post by Andrea Robbins at Campaign Monitor.

Clicking send for an email campaign can be a nerve-wracking experience. Many questions, doubts — and yes — even a little fear run through the minds of even the most seasoned marketers. Are there typos that were missed? Do all of the links work? Will readers be engaged and respond to the email? To help alleviate the send fear and avoid the most common email errors, Campaign Monitor is happy to share this email campaign preflight checklist. Continue reading →

New: Get the Skype Share Button

Big news!

We’re passionate about helping our publishers connect more deeply with their audience.

So we are super excited to announce that we’re teaming up with Skype, the experts on building connections online!

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In-App Browsers: What You Need to Know

April 4, 2017
Kirk
Developers
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In olden times, when mobile apps wanted to show web content, they would open the URL in the default browser. This caused the browser to become the active application, and depending on the platform, may have also required the user to perform more than just a single tap to return to the previous app. Continue reading →

How to Troubleshoot Your Swift and Objective-C Framework Integrations

March 7, 2017
Kirk
Developers
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In a previous post, we talked about building Swift and Objective-C frameworks. Now we’ll tackle troubleshooting your framework integrations, specifically, manually managed dependencies. One thing to note is that if you are using a package manager for your integrations, then these techniques may not be helpful for you.

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Snapchat for Beginners: 5 Tips to Get Started

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As you probably know, Snapchat is a messaging platform for sharing “fleeting” moments. When you share photos or videos with a friend (or group of friends), they can only been seen for 10 seconds and then they disappear. These are called “snaps.”

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Clean Up These Common Web Design Flaws

February 14, 2017
Michael Grunseth
Design
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From time to time we feature advice and tips from publishers just like you. This week Tony Mariotti, Owner of Ruby One Mortgage gives his advice for making web design work for your site’s bottom line.

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4 Reasons You Should Care About Page Speed

We’ve recently made big strides in making our tools even lighter and faster, to do our part towards helping your site perform as smoothly as it can.

So outside of our tools, why should you care if your pagespeed isn’t up to snuff?

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New for 2017: A Lighter, Faster AddThis

We heard from publishers and developers alike that pagespeed was a big concern in 2016. In keeping with the New Year’s tradition, it’s clear we needed to drop some excess weight.

Our own devs have been hitting the code-gym for months, and we’re proud of the progress made towards making our code lighter, faster, and most importantly to help lower your site’s bounce rates.

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Facebook Instant Articles: What You Need to Know

What are Facebook Instant Articles?
Facebook introduced Facebook Instant Articles (FIAs) to provide mobile device users with a better experience while reading content linked from within Facebook. Content appears almost instantly – typically, in less than a third of a second, as compared with average load times of 3-5 seconds for regular links. The other terrific thing about FIAs is that these articles provide a more enjoyable and immersive experience – with higher-quality imagery, more interactive capabilities (such as panning images by tilting the phone) and other advanced features – which result from FIAs being created in mobile-optimized HTML5 code. Users can easily identify links to FIAs by the lightning bolt icon shown on an article’s image preview.

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5 Great Reasons to Go Mobile First

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