As part of the updates to the new Tactile CRM website and interface I am in the process of redesigning our newsletters. We use the excellent Campaign Monitor to send them, but they also have some really good resources when it comes to designing them:

• What I learned redesigning the Campaign Monitor newsletter
• Email design guidelines – Campaign Monitor

As always, we’d love to hear ideas and suggestions from you – just drop us an email to links [at] omelett.es with any interesting stuff and we’ll take a look.

I’ve been researching into new designs and features for the Tactile CRM website and came across The Typographic Desktop Reference website:

Straight away the site gets to the point and shows you what the product is all about – I’m seriously considering purchasing the book – but also, it has a great way to show pages within the book when you click on them:

These ‘popups’ are commonly know as ‘modal dialogs’ or ‘lightboxes’ and are a great way to display information and gain user input without cluttering the page and requiring page reloads.