I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
The Noun Project is a great place to get free simple, icon-like images for use in your emails.
The Noun Project is a great place to get free simple, icon-like images for use in your emails.
When editing HTML, make sure you use a plain text editor like Notepad++ (Windows) or Tincta (Mac OS X). Don't copy from Microsoft Word or Open Office. These programs add their own formatting that doesn't work with HTML. "Clean it up" by pasting into a plain text editor first.
An added bonus is that Notepad++ and Tincta highlight your code and give you other great features to make your document easier to read and edit. Winning.
Was:
When editing HTML, make sure you use a plain text editor like Notepad++ (Windows) or Tincta (Mac OS X). Don't copy from Microsoft Word or Open Office. These programs add their own formatting that doesn't work with HTML. "Clean it up" by pasting into a plain text editor first.
An added bonus is that Notepad++ and Tincta highlight your code and give you other great features to make your document easier to read and edit. Winning.
When editing HTML, make sure you use a plain text editor like Notepad++ (Windows) or Tincta (Mac OS X). Don't copy from Microsoft Word or Open Office. These programs add their own formatting that doesn't work with HTML. "Clean it up" by pasting into a plain text editor first.
An added bonus is that Notepad++ and Tincta highlight your code and give you other great features to make your document easier to read and edit. Winning.
Was:
When editing HTML, make sure you use a plain text editor like Notepad++ (Windows) or Tincta (Mac OS X). Don't copy from Microsoft Word or Open Office. These programs add their own formatting that doesn't work with HTML. "Clean it up" by pasting into a plain text editor first.
An added bonus is that Notepad++ and Tincta highlight your code and give you other great features to make your document easier to read and edit. Winning.
I use Illustrator when I need to create a cool button for an email. If you don't have it, you can use Inkscape or even the Vertical Response Button Builder to create some great looking buttons in a pinch.
I use Illustrator when I need to create a cool button for an email. If you don't have it, you can use Inkscape or even the Vertical Response Button Builder to create some great looking buttons in a pinch.
Everyone's favorite 140 character social network, Twitter is the gold standard nowadays for sharing links and small bits of news. Be sure to have Share this on Twitter buttons where it makes sense to make it easy for your readers to forward your email.
Everyone's favorite 140 character social network, Twitter is the gold standard nowadays for sharing links and small bits of news. Be sure to have Share this on Twitter buttons where it makes sense to make it easy for your readers to forward your email.
Be sure to include a link to your organization's Facebook page or group in your email as well as inserting "Share this on Facebook" links where appropriate. They're an easy way for people to promote your email.
Be sure to include a link to your organization's Facebook page or group in your email as well as inserting "Share this on Facebook" links where appropriate. They're an easy way for people to promote your email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
The gold standard tool for image manipulation. If you don't have big bucks to buy this guy you can use other tools like Seashore or Picnik.
The big thing to remember is to resize your images before you upload them into your email blasting program.
Was:The gold standard tool for image manipulation. If you don't have big bucks to buy this guy you can use other tools like Seashore or Picnik.
The big thing to remember is to resize your images before you upload them into your email blasting program.
The gold standard tool for image manipulation. If you don't have big bucks to buy this guy you can use other tools like Seashore or Picnik.
The big thing to remember is to resize your images before you upload them into your email blasting program.
Was:The gold standard tool for image manipulation. If you don't have big bucks to buy this guy you can use other tools like Seashore or Picnik.
The big thing to remember is to resize your images before you upload them into your email blasting program.
The gold standard tool for image manipulation. If you don't have big bucks to buy this guy you can use other tools like Seashore or Picnik.
The big thing to remember is to resize your images before you upload them into your email blasting program.
Was:The gold standard tool for image manipulation. If you don't have big bucks to buy this guy you can use other tools like Seashore or Picnik.
The big thing to remember is to resize your images before you upload them into your email blasting program.
Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs
Some Simple Steps:
- Start with a plain text editor
- Don't switch back and forth between your blaster's HTML & WYSIWYG editors
- Put together your content
- Create your buttons
- Resize your images and THEN upload them
- Run your code through Premailer
- Test that message in as many email clients as possible making sure it at least looks decent in Outlook
Don't forget to check out the Useful Links
Was:Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs
Some Simple Steps:
- Start with a plain text editor
- Put together your content
- Create your buttons
- Resize your images and THEN upload them
- Run your code through Premailer
- Test that message in as many email clients as possible making sure it at least looks decent in Outlook
Don't forget to check out the Useful Links
Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs
Some Simple Steps:
- Start with a plain text editor
- Put together your content
- Create your buttons
- Resize your images and THEN upload them
- Run your code through Premailer
- Test that message in as many email clients as possible making sure it at least looks decent in Outlook
Don't forget to check out the Useful Links
Was:Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs
Some Simple Steps:
- Start with a plain text editor
- Put together your content
- Create your buttons
- Resize your images and THEN upload them
- Run your code through Premailer
- Test that message in as many email clients as possible making sure it at least looks decent in Outlook
Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs
Some Simple Steps:
- Start with a plain text editor
- Put together your content
- Create your buttons
- Resize your images and THEN upload them
- Run your code through Premailer
- Test that message in as many email clients as possible making sure it at least looks decent in Outlook
Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs
Some Simple Steps:
- Start with a plain text editor
- Put together your content
- Create your buttons
- Resize your images and THEN upload them
- Run your code through Premailer
- Test that message in as many email clients as possible making sure it at least looks decent in Outlook
Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs
Some Simple Steps:
- Start with a plain text editor
- Put together your content
- Create your buttons
- Resize your images and THEN upload them
- Run your code through Premailer
- Test that message in as many email clients as possible making sure it at least looks decent in Outlook
Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs
Start with a plain text editor
Put together your content
Create your buttons
Resize your images and THEN upload them.
Premailer
Test Test Test
Love it or hate it, VR is our email blasting tool of choice. With 10,000 free messages a month for nonprofit organizations, it's hard to beat in the value department.
Was:Full-featured email newsletter and message blasting tool, with special free nonprofit pricing (10,000 free messages per month).
When you're in a pinch, VR's Button Builder will spit you out a simple, clean button with custom text and colors even if you're not a Vertical Response customer. While they aren't going to win any design competitions, these buttons will certainly do the job.
Was:A simple button builder to create buttons for HTML emails. You don't need to use Vertical Response to use it. Create a simple button with custom color and text and it will email the resulting image file to you.
Everyone's favorite 140 character social network, Twitter is the gold standard nowadays for sharing links and small bits of news. Be sure to have Share this on Twitter buttons where it makes sense to make it easy for your readers to forward your email.
Was:Twitter is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or on the web.
Like Notepad++ described above, Tincta is a great text editor for Mac that highlights code so it's easier to read.
Was:A simple text editor for Mac OS X with syntax highlighting (colors code differently for easier reading) and multiple document handling.
The Noun Project is a great place to get free simple, icon-like images for use in your emails.
Was:The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, providing them for use for free.
Seashore is a simple image editor that can be a bit buggy sometimes but it's a lightweight tool that is good for simple things like resizing images when you don't want to load a behemoth like Photoshop.
Was:Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.
Checks your HTML emails to make sure that the CSS is inline and flags potential problems in the coding that might cause problems in various email clients.
Premailer is a good last step to make sure you caught all the troublesome bits in your email.
Was:Checks your HTML emails to make sure that the CSS is inline and flags potential problems in the coding that might cause problems in various email clients.
When editing HTML, make sure you use a plain text editor like Notepad++ (Windows) or Tincta (Mac OS X). Don't copy from Microsoft Word or Open Office. These programs add their own formatting that doesn't work with HTML. "Clean it up" by pasting into a plain text editor first.
An added bonus is that Notepad++ and Tincta highlight your code and give you other great features to make your document easier to read and edit. Winning.
Was:When editing HTML, make sure you use a plain text editor like Notepad++ (Windows) or Tincta (Mac OS X). Don't copy from Microsoft Word or Open Office. These programs add their own formatting that doesn't work with HTML. "Clean it up" by pasting into a plain text editor first. An added bonus is that Notepad++ and Tincta highlight your code and give you other great features to make your document easier to read and edit. Winning.
Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs
Start with a plain text editor
Put together your content
Create your buttons
Resize your images and THEN upload them.
Premailer
Test Test Test
Tools for putting together email newsletters and action alerts through email blasting programs
The bane of email newsletter creators. Outlook is by far the problem child in terms of what HTML and CSS it will display but unfortunately, Outlook has a huge share of the email client market. Make sure your email looks good in Outlook. Otherwise many people will get a bad impression of your org (or at least your design skills)...
Was:Email and personal information management software.
When editing HTML, make sure you use a plain text editor like Notepad++ (Windows) or Tincta (Mac OS X). Don't copy from Microsoft Word or Open Office. These programs add their own formatting that doesn't work with HTML. "Clean it up" by pasting into a plain text editor first. An added bonus is that Notepad++ and Tincta highlight your code and give you other great features to make your document easier to read and edit. Winning.
Was:Notepad++ is a source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages and runs under the MS Windows environment. Its features include syntax highlighting, WYSIWYG, auto-completion, multi document/view and more.
Be sure to include a link to your organization's Facebook page or group in your email as well as inserting "Share this on Facebook" links where appropriate. They're an easy way for people to promote your email.
Was:Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you.
The open-source alternative to Illustrator. Not the best tool but impressive for an open source initiative.
Was:Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
I use Illustrator when I need to create a cool button for an email. If you don't have it, you can use Inkscape or even the Vertical Response Button Builder to create some great looking buttons in a pinch.
Was:Vector graphics design software.
I use ColorPicker for quick hex codes when customizing a template or adding some color snazz to an email.
Was:A dead simple, web-based color picker that gives you hexadecimal codes of web design colors.
The gold standard tool for image manipulation. If you don't have big bucks to buy this guy you can use other tools like Seashore or Picnik.
The big thing to remember is to resize your images before you upload them into your email blasting program.
Was:Powerful but expensive digital image manipulation package.
Twitter is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or on the web.
Was:A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or on the web.
Full-featured email newsletter and message blasting tool, with special free nonprofit pricing (10,000 free messages per month).
Was:Full-featured email newsletter and message blasting tool, with special free nonprofit pricing (10,000 free messages per month)
Powerful but expensive digital image manipulation package.
Was:Powerful but expensive graphics software
