Hey guys, I have been struggling to create a simple and clean HTML email. Is there a standard way of designing HTML newsletters?
Do you agree that W3C should create a standard for all email clients? It's 2016 and we still don't know how to create HTML emails!!
Please suggest me the best way to get rid of this.
Agree! There should be some standard guidelines for emails clients.
Since we are talking about HTML emails in 2016, here are some good free resources that I generally use:
Design and Export Emails (Free)
Inline and minify emails
Test Emails
Ah, I remember those terrible days of designing emails. However, with 2016, we see my beloved Foundation 6. They offer ready-made templates to kick off your design. This is not quite a detailed answer, but I guess it should help:
I don't do often E-Mail design, but when I do, I use the grunt-email-workflow
It is super neat. You can style the e-mails with sass and the templates are made with handlebars, so you can work easily with partials and components.
The grunt task compiles your sass to css, handlebars to html and then inlines the styles automatically.
You can also add some cnd to it will upload images etc to it and you can add a mailgun api key so you get tests emails. Or test them with Litmus,
Robert van der Elst
Front End Designer
I agree there should be some kind of standard for this, or at least better support for basic stuff and better (basic) CSS support in email clients.
For now, keep the layout and code as simple as possible, so less can go wrong :)
Mailchimp has lot of developers resources as I recall so check their site.
Oh and this is very handy: campaignmonitor.com/css/b