sendwithus cofounder; we've had a template gallery internally in the product since launch, but we felt that these templates were something that everyone should be able to use.<p>We didn't want to launch "just another template gallery", like many others, so we've made these open source. Contribute a pull request on github[0], we'll merge it, run it through Litmus and make sure it's still responsive. You can read about it on the 'about' page[1]<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/sendwithus/templates" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sendwithus/templates</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/templates/about" rel="nofollow">https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/templates/about</a>
You know what's funny? Often the highest converting and best user experience emails are... just text and links.<p>Yep, all the branded shenanigans and responsive mumbojumbo doesn't necessarily beat just sending an email in its native form.<p>As it turns out, most of the logos and branding are self serving and nobody cares. Many of the most profitable email lists on the internet have no style at all, are long form text, have plain blue links, and they make millions of dollars in sales.<p>This is a cool project, but don't forget to treat email in its native form.
If you build emails based on these, please make sure you send them multipart/alternative with a text/plain version as well. And in particular, make sure that text/plain version isn't just "go read the HTML", or worse a copy of the HTML complete with tags.
This is amazing, although I can't help but feel skeptical every time I read the word <i>responsive</i> next to the word <i>e-mail</i> considering only Thunderbird and Apple Mail speak responsive.<p>Sadly, email design is like travelling to a twisted dimension.<p>The most effective markup for layouts are the dreaded tables, the most effective way to style your markup is with inline styles, and the most used email client (Microsoft Outlook 2007~13) has an engine exponentially worse than Trident from Internet Explorer 6[1].<p>And don't get me started with Android/Gmail because Google seems devoted in beating Microsoft with the worst experience for email design.<p>[1] <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201(v=office.12).aspx#Word2007MailHTMLandCSS_Introduction" rel="nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338201(v=office.12...</a>
I can't tell you how many times I've wanted something like this. The pain of writing and testing html email is pretty huge, and the only people doing an even halfway decent job with them seem to be the proprietary email campaign companies, and until now they don't seem interested in making them as accessible as this.<p>Plus, these templates look pretty slick.
They are much less fully fleshed out, but Zurb Ink has some sample templates along with a whole system for responsive email design: <a href="http://zurb.com/ink/templates.php" rel="nofollow">http://zurb.com/ink/templates.php</a>
This is great. Thanks a lot for sharing. We're working on html emails for our own project and it's shocking how arcane and backwards this entire thing is. Hopefully these templates will save us a lot of time.
These are great. I'm a week off shipping a product that is primarily delivered via email, to C-suite'ers. Most of these people check all email on their phone, so these are an amazing help in shipping the MVP.
Excellent job. For those interested in just seeing (no source) really well designed emails can alwasy check out: <a href="http://reallygoodemails.com/" rel="nofollow">http://reallygoodemails.com/</a>
Awesome responsive email templates. More info here: <a href="https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/templates/about" rel="nofollow">https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/templates/about</a>
In my endless fight with Microsoft’s worse than useless spam filters (my how I hate hotmail and her ugly sisters), how does using a common template like this affect the false positive junk mail rate?<p>On this topic does anyone have any trick suggestion beyond the obvious (spf, dkim, etc) to keep emails away from Microsoft’s junk mail filter?
When I saw "open source mail templates" I thought it'd be things like ways of insulting people who report bugs or provide patches, or calling everyone idiots for not wrapping their plain-text emails at 72 columns, or whatever.