This put up was up to date on June 11, 2018. It was initially printed in September 2014.
Are you new to E-mail on Acid? If that’s the case, we’d wish to stroll you thru the method of getting your e mail take a look at outcomes, in addition to how one can analyze and troubleshoot your take a look at outcomes.
We’ve already given you the lowdown on how one can run a take a look at, however now we’re going to get into the nitty-gritty of how one can navigate by your take a look at outcomes and all of the options you should utilize should you run into coding issues.
Accessing Your E-mail on Acid Check Outcomes
When you’ve run your e mail take a look at, there are two methods to view your take a look at outcomes. You possibly can entry the outcomes by the Inbox, which is situated on the high of the left navigation bar.
Your inbox will present outcomes from all exams run inside the final 30 days. The most recent outcomes can be on the high.
If you wish to begin viewing a number of the outcomes, click on on the take a look at topic line and the preview pane will pop up on the appropriate facet of the display. You possibly can click on on any thumbnail to go instantly into that particular preview. Or, you may click on on the diagonal arrows on the high of the pane to increase all of your outcomes right into a full web page.
Click on on any preview thumbnail to leap straight into viewing your outcomes. You can even share your take a look at outcomes, inline your CSS, obtain your screenshots and preview the e-mail you examined instantly from this preview pane.
The opposite solution to entry your e mail previews is in your private e mail inbox by the autoprocess testing technique. In case you are operating an autoprocess take a look at, you’ll get an e mail each time you create a brand new take a look at. We ship the e-mail 10 minutes after the take a look at is began. Simply click on on a thumbnail, or the button on the backside of the display, and we’ll take you to the “Shared” outcomes for that take a look at. As a result of these are the shared outcomes, you gained’t must log in to view them.
Beneath is an instance of take a look at outcomes going to a private inbox. Please observe that shared outcomes don’t have all of the options you’ll see when logged in to the E-mail on Acid platform.
In the event you aren’t getting your take a look at outcomes delivered to your private inbox, ensure you have this function enabled.
Now that you realize the place your exams are, we’ll get into how one can transfer round from preview to preview inside your take a look at outcomes.
Navigating Via Your Previews
The simplest solution to look by every preview is through the use of your arrow keys. Merely press the left arrow key to go to the earlier preview and the appropriate arrow key to leap ahead to the following one.
When you have a selected consumer you wish to dive into, hover your mouse over the appropriate navigation bar and also you’ll see a full listing of the purchasers and gadgets you examined. From the navigation bar, click on on the consumer you’d wish to view. Use the pin icon to make the appropriate navigation bar keep expanded.
Not seeing a consumer you wished to check? This could occur if the consumer will not be checked in your e mail consumer default settings. Click on right here to get directions on enhancing your default purchasers.
E-mail on Acid additionally gives vertical AND horizontal cellular views. Drag, slide, and rotate your e mail identical to you’d when viewing it within the precise system. That’s 4 display captures for every rotating system:
- Vertical with photos enabled (default)
- Vertical with picture blocking
- Horizontal with photos enabled
- Horizontal with picture blocking
As soon as all of your take a look at outcomes are trying good, you may share your outcomes simply together with your colleagues. Merely click on “Share” and replica the hyperlink. Ship it out to collaborate together with your workforce.
Validating Your Pictures and Hyperlinks
Whereas thumbing by your take a look at previews, you could discover that none of your hyperlinks or photos are clickable. It is because we return solely a screenshot of precisely what your e mail appears like inside every inbox. Don’t fear – you may nonetheless examine to ensure these hyperlinks and pictures work correctly.
To examine all of the hyperlinks and pictures inside your e mail, click on the “URL Validation” tab.
You will note validation and repute info for every hyperlink and picture. This implies you may see if any hyperlinks resolved with error messages or if any hyperlink domains are blocklisted. Try a pattern under:
E-mail on Acid lists all of your URLs individually, so you may establish any URL which may be inflicting an issue. Together with blocklisted URLs in your e mail could cause spam filters to flag your message.
Now that we’ve coated how and the place to view your exams, listed here are some steps you may take once you discover issues in your take a look at outcomes.
Troubleshooting Code Points
All e mail purchasers use completely different rendering engines to show an e mail. That’s why your e mail might look stunning in a single consumer, however not in one other. Or, you could possibly have made a easy coding mistake – it occurs to the perfect of us. Fortunately, we’re right here to assist. Once you see issues together with your previews, there are a pair steps you may take:
Step 1: Find and observe the e-mail purchasers that look funky
If you end up scrolling by your previews, observe which purchasers are having rendering points. This can aid you simply isolate the purchasers when it’s time to troubleshoot.
Step 2: Determine rendering points with our Code Evaluation
Our Code Evaluation identifies code components that aren’t supported in every e mail consumer. Warnings are labeled as important, reasonable, or minor. Vital warnings may adversely have an effect on your format, whereas minor warnings may embrace unsupported fonts, alt tags, or title tags.
We provide a code evaluation for each consumer and system. To entry this instrument, click on in your e mail preview and toggle the “View” drop-down menu above the preview. Choose “Code Evaluation Abstract” and the outcomes can be displayed on the appropriate facet of the display.
In the event you repair the errors specified by the code evaluation tab and you’re nonetheless seeing the identical issues, it’s time so that you can dive into our library of coding tips.
Step 3: Leverage our Suggestions and Tips
Since 2008, we’ve documented tons of quirks that pop up when growing HTML e mail. Particulars and workarounds are offered for every particular person consumer, all from inside your take a look at end result window!
To entry Suggestions and Tips for every particular person consumer, ensure you are within the right preview and click on on the “</>” button situated to the left of each screenshot. Within the instance under, we’re in AOL Chrome (Mac) so once we click on on the Suggestions and Tips tab, we see workarounds particularly associated to AOL.
Step 4: Soar on our weblog
Through the years we’ve constructed up a killer library of sources on our weblog, all because of some nice e mail builders, entrepreneurs and designers. Weblog feedback provide an interactive place to go and figuratively stand across the water cooler speaking about e mail code and quirky purchasers.
We additionally put up to our weblog weekly with e mail suggestions and tips protecting subjects like how e mail file measurement impacts deliverability and why Outlook is including these further traces to your e mail. It’s our job to remain on high of coding points and the latest consumer oddities so that you don’t should.
Different Instruments: Resubmit your screenshot
From time to time, a “stitching” difficulty can happen once we are creating your previews. A sewing difficulty might minimize off your e mail, slice by the center of your picture or have the e-mail be spliced and stitched again collectively in an unnatural method. In the event you see a part of a picture lacking, it’s both as a result of the containing ingredient is just too small, or as a result of a sewing difficulty occurred. Typically, you may repair a sewing difficulty just by reprocessing your screenshot.
Try an instance of an e mail that fell sufferer to minor stitching points under:
To resubmit your screenshot, click on on the preview that’s having stitching points and discover the “Reprocess Screenshot” button on the high of the dashboard. It appears like a counterclockwise arrow.
It’s essential to notice that you may solely reprocess a consumer screenshot one time. Utilizing this function resubmits the very same code, so this isn’t a solution to take a look at adjustments. In case you are nonetheless seeing rendering points, attempt the steps laid out above.
Check and Check Once more
After you’ve discovered a repair to your coding points, ship one other take a look at by our system to confirm your repair and ensure it didn’t trigger a problem in another e mail consumer. E-mail testing is an iterative course of, and each difficulty you repair will carry you one step nearer to the proper e mail.
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Good luck, and blissful testing!
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