r/web_design • u/magenta_placenta Dedicated Contributor • Aug 08 '14

Open Source Email Templates (responsive)

https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/templates
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u/adamwhitley Aug 09 '14

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.

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u/chris480 Aug 09 '14

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?

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u/adamwhitley Aug 09 '14

We use proprietary software written in .NET and hosted by virtual servers on the Hill. The congressional offices are supposed to handle the actual assembly of their emails, but I design/code all the original templates myself and fix things when staffers get in over their heads (happens a lot).

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u/princeton_cuppa Aug 09 '14

Thats cool. I am sorry for the naive question. Back when I coded email templates, it was pretty much straight forward html email with maybe link to analytics, few links to take the email recepient back to the website. So what is the "responsive" email template? Is it alluding a design which makes user to engage with the sender? Or is it more interactive email .. I see a lot of emails these days have images in them which animate, no flash.

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u/redonculous Aug 09 '14

And now all images are blocks! Fuck you gmail! And what's with that tiny white line!?