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Re: Show HN: Drag/Drop Email Template Creator for Transactional Emails

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Post by somid3 » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 7:04 PM UTC

love the ease by which I can set a template. nice

Re: Show HN: Drag/Drop Email Template Creator for Transactional Emails

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Post by niftylettuce » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 7:24 PM UTC

https://github.com/niftylettuce/node-email-templates

https://github.com/mailchimp/Email-Blueprints

Re: Show HN: Drag/Drop Email Template Creator for Transactional Emails

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Post by navs » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 8:23 PM UTC

I love the drag and drop HTML development idea. I'm curious whether there's any open source libraries out there or open sourced projects that can help me develop something similar. Any suggestions?

Re: Show HN: Drag/Drop Email Template Creator for Transactional Emails

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Post by MasterScrat » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 9:16 PM UTC

I really like the look of your site. Did you make it yourself from Bootstrap, or is it a template?

Re: Show HN: Drag/Drop Email Template Creator for Transactional Emails

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Post by gnud » Thu, Jan 03, 2013, 9:51 PM UTC

eob wrote: post #2

I'm happy any time I see web design/development moving into the web browser and out of text files. It feels like the natural progression of things. Some comments: - The example email (Weekly Summary) made me think "SPAM!" as soon as I saw it, because it looks like the kind of email that Twitter sends me and goes straight to my trash bin. On the other hand, I imagine there are a lot of use cases where summary emails a…

> I'm happy any time I see web design/development moving into the web browser and out of text files. It feels like the natural progression of things.

I'm often not. I'm not talking about this tool specifically (it looks very nice, and I havn't tried it), but when tools move away from text files, we tend to lose important facilities like "replace image A in all our email templates with image B".

Re: Show HN: Drag/Drop Email Template Creator for Transactional Emails

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Post by dirkdk » Fri, Jan 04, 2013, 12:29 AM UTC

Just disabled. Too much HN love? :)

Re: Show HN: Drag/Drop Email Template Creator for Transactional Emails

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Post by eob » Sat, Jan 05, 2013, 2:12 AM UTC

gnud wrote: post #15

eob wrote: post #2

I'm happy any time I see web design/development moving into the web browser and out of text files. It feels like the natural progression of things. Some comments: - The example email (Weekly Summary) made me think "SPAM!" as soon as I saw it, because it looks like the kind of email that Twitter sends me and goes straight to my trash bin. On the other hand, I imagine there are a lot of use cases where summary emails a…

> I'm happy any time I see web design/development moving into the web browser and out of text files. It feels like the natural progression of things. I'm often not. I'm not talking about this tool specifically (it looks very nice, and I havn't tried it), but when tools move away from text files, we tend to lose important facilities like "replace image A in all our email templates with image B".

This is very true.

But if you buy into the "browser will become the runtime for most things" argument, you'll be able to do this within your browser-based HTML editor, too, one day.