Really great thanks! Is it possible to add responsive styles? Such as converting columns into rows on smaller device screens?
Yes, this designer does that. please test it out.
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#82Really great thanks! Is it possible to add responsive styles? Such as converting columns into rows on smaller device screens?
OP should have used the patterns from Cerberus: https://github.com/emailmonday/Cerberus
we did indeed use some design patterns from Cerebrus along with a few others. our documentation in fact credits Ted Goas, Nicole Merlin, and Mark Robbins
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#83Cool that you open sourced this. As you say there's nothing open quite like this. Not using MJML as a design decision. Foes that simplify deployment a lot, or just keep things lighter? In turn, do you have to strangle a lot of compatibility issues yourself? etc. Thanks.
I think it's distinctly uncool that this was published as open source. OP should charge money from all the swines that will use the software, including people like me.
go ahead and feel free to use it. that is what we intended it for.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
there's an export HTML functionality. you can use this to save templates once you embed this in your project.
I appreciate the response, but that's not what I was asking. I'll rephrase as a workflow question: After I make a design in your editor, I'll want to reuse that for future emails. Is there a way to load a saved design back in (that I previously made in your editor) so I don't have to redesign every email from scratch?
got it. that is an implementation you will have to do when you embed it in app. it's basically exporting the HTML, giving it a name and storing it a database. this functionality is beyond the scope of the demo. but we have it at https://sendune.com/
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#85The drag and drop part is not working for me, Firefox, macOS. I can click on the elements on the left and they will pop up, but I am not able to drag them onto the email.
although the name says 'drag and drop', it's not truly that. you click on any column in the designer and then select the component (heading, text, image, etc) in the left panel. you can then move components up and down using the arrows.
we found this approach simpler than drag and drop, especially when designing long emails.
let me know if drag and drop is something thats an absolute for you. we can bring it back.
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#86View -> Message Body As -> Plain Text Not your fault, but please always provide fall back text.
got it. plain text fall back is on our todo list.
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#87I was writing them email templates 15 years ago... oh... look we are still using tables. How has email markup not evolved?
it has not evolved much. and i believe that's a good thing. this is the reason why emails from 20 years ago look the same even if you open them today. given the short life of everything on the internet, email is a wonderful thing.
There are periodic items on here from people having trouble with self-hosted email, but nonetheless I think it's also not suffered the same closed-systems/walled-garden effect as much as other protocols like IM.
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#88The entire premise is absurd. I will grant that many people want rich text, formatted emails with images and logos. I don't want that but understand the wants and needs are different for others. For gods sake why HTML? A fairly simple markup language (Markdown, orgmode, etc) would have sufficed, would have eliminated the need for separate plain and html versions of every email, been far more accessible to screen-read…
There was an attempt to standardise what looks like an HTML-subset for formatted emails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_text
But unfortunately it wasn't very popular.
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#89wow. this should help to design invoices, what do you think? html to pdf is not a problem anyway so....
you can design absolutely anything with the HTML editor - invoices included.
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#90How does this compare to something like resend?
Is this a genuine question? I dont want to be rude but I dont understand how are you asking this?
Just in case it is a genuine question:
- This is a tool for designing/creating emails - they say in the title of this post "Open source HTML email designer"
- Resend is a tool for sending emails: "Deliver transactional and marketing emails at scale" this is from the hero of resend homepage
I dont know any of them, just opened the Resend website and read the hero and read the description of the post you are commenting.