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Responsive HTML Email Templates

127 points| twakefield | 9 years ago |htmlemail.io | reply

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[+] matt_wulfeck|9 years ago|reply
$50 for 8 templates. There's nothing free or open-source on this site. Nothing wrong with that but just setting expectations. I supposed it's not a bad price if you're making money off the marketing campaign.

Can someone point to a "free", basic template that I can use instead of sending plaintext emails? HTML in emails is simply a PITA. If I can make my daily crons looks pretty then I'm all for that.

Even a nice css table similar to bootstrap would solve 99% of all my needs.

[+] JoBrad|9 years ago|reply
Having worked in email marketing before, making a reliable template that just works in most major webmail platforms requires a LOT more work than doing the same thing for web browsers. If they work (and I haven't tried them, so can't provide first-hand evidence), then they are well worth the money.
[+] rhizome|9 years ago|reply
Doesn't Facebook essentially use plaintext for emails? Personally, I don't see much reason to go beyond that.
[+] taeric|9 years ago|reply
I recently put back on my old geezer hat and switched to GNUS for email at work. I yearn for the days that all email was simple text and people actually trimmed long reply chains. Inline responses were also easier in text.

That said, I do realize this is mainly for marketing emails. Or things that need to show charts and the like. I don't instantly despise the idea. But it does amuse me that much of what makes the space difficult, is a combination of a ton of things that were designed to make the space easy. (Though, I question who the target was for most of the ease. Seems many features are made specifically to make it easier to market to me. Not for me to use email.)

[+] CaptSpify|9 years ago|reply
One of the best decisions I made was to use a cli email client. Parsing email is much faster and eaiser. And I don't have to look at spam^H^H^H^Hmarketing emails any more.
[+] buckbova|9 years ago|reply
Not sure how "responsive" this is. The litmus test uses the simplest of all the email templates and just looks like centered, possibly tabular content.

https://litmus.com/checklist/emails/public/2e539c3

This different than zurb?

http://foundation.zurb.com/emails/email-templates.html

[+] blowski|9 years ago|reply
That's about as responsive as you can get, unfortunately. Outlook and Gmail don't support the CSS box model, so you have to use tables and that really limits what you can do on mobiles.
[+] tronvig|9 years ago|reply
I don't think media queries work in email clients. Responsive usually just means setting a width for mobile and displaying that same layout centered on anything with a larger view.
[+] sbarre|9 years ago|reply
Yeah curious to know what this brings that Foundation for Emails does not?

Foundation is free (and at version 2.0 with a decent well-tested workflow).

[+] KevanM|9 years ago|reply
I find it amazing that the primary method of communication across many businesses is still mired in a world of compromise and hacks.

Surely the use tables to create presentable emails, rather than simple HTML and CSS bumps up the size of these emails that it would be in their interest to base their rendering on modern standards.

[+] tgarma1234|9 years ago|reply
Are those from Lee Munroes github account? Yup.

https://github.com/leemunroe/responsive-html-email-template

Note the copy that says: "Sometimes you need..."

So why on earth are they $50 now?

[+] fonziguy|9 years ago|reply
Hey, this is Lee. Correct. The simple responsive email template is free and open source. If you have the time, or don't have the budget, you could definitely use this as a starting point and create the rest of the templates on top of this. It took me more than a few hours though :-)
[+] ommunist|9 years ago|reply
github search for HTML email templates filtered by year will give you way more niceties for free.