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Re: Free Email Templates for Developers

#21
I recommend that people not use such email templates: instead, just produce simple, unvarnished content that roughly matches what you’d produce if you just wrote a normal email manually in your normal email client.

Note that I’m not saying “use text/plain and no text/html part” as some will; you’re welcome to use HTML (though I do say, please provide a good text/plain part), but see what life’s like if you roughly limit yourself to paragraphs, lists, inline formatting, images (where useful, not just gratuitous) and maybe headings and tables (strictly for data, not for layout; receipts often benefit from tables). And maybe a company or product logo to go with it, but not formatted fancily. Maybe go a teeny bit fancy for a big call-to-action button—or perhaps just try having it as a bold link in a paragraph of its own.

Quite a few entities that have tried this have reported higher conversion rates and customer satisfaction.

Re: Free Email Templates for Developers

#22
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

License here says MIT: https://github.com/hunzaboy/codedmails

License here says otherwise: https://codedmails.com/premium

OK, so the compiled files are free/MIT, but the source files (MJML) are indeed proprietary. Interesting compromise.

Re: Free Email Templates for Developers

#23
post #8

All of these would probably look like garbage in mutt. ;) I wish companies would focus more on content, rather than form. Recently I got a garbage html email from paypal telling me my donation account will be blocked by a certain date, but the sentence ended abruptly without a date they were referencing. They spend huge amount of time on large amount of weird html markup, but screw up on an actual useful content. Any…

In general they would probably look like garbage in any email client that provides a secure place to look at HTML emails. It isn't just text mode clients that have that issue.

I wouldn't have anything against sane use of html in emails.

Like using p, a, b, ul/ol/li, h1-3, etc. All that is fairly readable even when looking at markup.

Re: Free Email Templates for Developers

#24

I recommend that people not use such email templates: instead, just produce simple, unvarnished content that roughly matches what you’d produce if you just wrote a normal email manually in your normal email client. Note that I’m not saying “use text/plain and no text/html part” as some will; you’re welcome to use HTML (though I do say, please provide a good text/plain part), but see what life’s like if you roughly li…

I agree with that. However even using little HTML or lots of HTML should make any difference. The email clients are going to treat it the same.

Emails can be clean and simple but still in HTML. :)

Re: Free Email Templates for Developers

#25

Seems not bad, but the free part is the rendered template with tons of inline `style='...'` bits all over. Not really a usable template. As someone who just wants to write internal html email reports that don't look half bad in gmail, I wonder where I should be looking.

HTML emails have to be coded like this. For best possible results we have to use table layouts and inline css because email clients are tricky and doesn't use latest css properties. So to keep them compatible with all kinds of email clients, the elements have to have inline css. Otherwise it is not even possible to have a decent HTML email which will render correctly on all email clients.

Its just how it is currently due to limitation from email renderers and clients.

Re: Free Email Templates for Developers

#28
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

License here says otherwise: https://codedmails.com/premium

OK, so the compiled files are free/MIT, but the source files (MJML) are indeed proprietary. Interesting compromise.

Yes. HTML version are free/MIT but MJML source codes are not for free.

Re: Free Email Templates for Developers

#30
post #13

PSA: mildly risky click if you follow the link to the CodedMails Unsplash Collection. Not sure which template needs the pantsless girl losing her Star Wars t-shirt. Maybe one of the Notifications templates?

Yes, it is for a new template tutorial. Also i am a big Starwars fan :)

https://dev.to/hunzaboy/how-to-create-a-clean-bulletproof-em...

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