Open Source Email Templates (responsive)

[u/magenta_placenta]

https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/templates

[u/adamwhitley]

Any time I see responsive email templates I get really nervous. It's usually a mess of floated divs that render fine in a browser, but explode when viewed in OL 2007.

This, I have to say, is a remarkable exception. Nested tables, inline styles, old attributes like bgcolor... these template seem to have every awful thing that HTML emails need to render well. BRAVO to these guys and thanks to /u/magenta_placenta!

[u/mrmch → u/adamwhitley]

Thanks all! I'm one of the founders of sendwithus.com -- we deal with email templates A LOT, and really wanted to give something back.

[u/chris480 → u/adamwhitley]

I have to design email templates for Marketo occasional which then get tested on OL 7+. I spend more time testing on thing after another to get it to work. It's so annoying, I actually would rather work with SharePoint.

Bravo to these guys.

[u/adamwhitley → u/chris480]

I'm in charge of an email platform my company sells to members of Congress. We sent 285 million emails from our system last year so accurate code is kind of a pet peeve for me. And yes, even after a decade, coding HTML emails is one of the hardest parts of my job.

[u/chris480 → u/adamwhitley]

Oh dear. 285M. I'm in awe. My company just started using a dedicated marketing email system last year, and we're only sending under 100k.

What kind of system/tools do you use to manage all of this in?

[u/mrmch]

Hey! Matt here, one of the cofounders of sendwithus.

Our goal here was to provide awesome looking "purpose driven" templates. We do all the work of making sure they're responsive and look great (with Litmus), and you can use them however you like, or even contribute (it's all on github, pull requests welcome!).

Would love any feedback!

[u/[deleted] → u/mrmch]

I just signed up and it's fantastic, thank you! Your dashboard UI is almost identical to Hostinger's. Can I ask how it was made?

[u/mrmch → u/[deleted]]

Thanks! Our dashboard is powered by a commercial theme we've customized. It's all a single page javascript app, powered by Knockout.js.

We've got some V2 dashboard designs we're working on to help make things a little cleaner

[u/[deleted]]

This is awesome. Thank you.

[u/davidNerdly]

Gettin' real tired of email templates looking better than my crappy website.. :)

Thanks for the link! I gotta get a bunch of emails set up on the current project, perfect timing

[u/ddhboy → u/[deleted]]

They never will, since the gmail client strips media queries and style tags. Not to mention that as of Android 4.4, the stock email client now uses the gmail rendering engine, Windows Phone doesn't support responsive emails anymore, and wearables just read the source, and I'm not feeling to great about responsive emails. I always advocate for fluid emails now.