Visual Email Builder Apps

I bet y’all know that apps like Campaign Monitor and MailChimp have visual email builders built right into them. You drag and drop different types of content right into a layout. You edit text right within the email. It’s nice. …

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Inky and Slinky

Inky is kinda like a preprocessor for HTML created by Zurb, specifically designed for responsive emails.

I’m sure a lot of us have hand-coded HTML emails (I do it regularly) and know that it’s typically <table></table> soup. It’s not even …

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Override Gmail’s Mobile Optimized Emails

Many emails are designed with a large screen in mind. Text that looks great on a large screen can be difficult to read on a mobile device, though. If Gmail deems that the font-size of any text in an email is too small to be legible, it will increase the size and flag the message. That’s pretty nice. What could have been illegible is made legible, eliminating the need to pinch and zoom our screens. It can also be a little frustrating.
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