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email template generators

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  • 15-03-2017 10:44am
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    off.the.walls
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    Anyone got any idea where to see examples of how these work? Similar to mail chimps drag and drop functionality to build up a HTML template.


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    Talisman
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    The interface is essentially implementing the HTML Drag and Drop API. I implemented a few of them for projects years ago - implementing undo/redo was a head wrecker the first time through.

    An Italian marketing agency open sourced their responsive email builder Mocaico a couple of years ago. It uses the Knockout.js framework but the principles are the same no matter what framework you choose to work with.

    If you're creating such a project my advice would be to choose your rich text editor carefully. At the time I used TinyMCE and it proved to be a horror to maintain. There are superior solutions available now - Squire is the rich text editor created by Fastmail for their own service and only supports tags that are valid for HTML email.

    Litmus offers a great service for testing templates in email clients - Outlook was troublesome and Gmail also caused issues.


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