The Complete Guide to Designing for Email. Video is supported in iOS, Apple Mail and Outlook.com. You’ll see a brand new email template, ready to go: In your project folder you’ll find (amongst other things) a src folder. Foundation for Emails makes use of Inky, its own new Templating Language which aims to remove the complex markup which tables inevitably cause. I recently covered a guide to Foundation for Sites and in this post I’d like to delve into Zurb’s newest email framework. Laurel is a designer at ZURB and one of the authors of ZURB's popular "Zero to Website" guide. I added another image about the tournament city, again relative to the document. Unfortunately, with email, due to our excessive hacks and the poor support for HTML, accessibility is often ignored. Scroll all the way down for the video tutorial! Some clients (such as Outlook) don’t recognize the padding on the tag, so we fill in the background color of the table cell. commercial license. PutsMail lets you do this quite easily, and Thunderbird lets you compose with its HTML editor. This class is presented live by members of the ZURB team! Step 1: Tie a loose slip knot on your hook and chain 2. You have a couple of options here: Writing inline as you go isn’t exactly a scalable or maintainable solution, so I tend not to recommend this, but I know that a lot of email developers prefer this in order to maintain 100% control. Client-Rendering Engines. This includes Helvetica, Arial and so on. Envato Tuts+ Tutorial: Foundation for Emails: How to Use Panini Partials Instructor: Luke Spoor In this tutorial, we’ll be using ZURB’s Foundation for Emails to create a simple functioning email. Here is a snippet of the code I use to build most of my emails. HTML Email Templates; Foundation for Emails 2; Building HTML Email Templates. Due to the numerous email clients and devices, your email will get rendered for users in a variety of ways.
Our email framework helps you craft responsive HTML emails that can be read anywhere on any device. We can apply specific CSS styles and show or hide elements and content for different versions of Outlook. The stack works with Node.js and its package manager npm. Kevin is an engineering lead here at ZURB, and spearheads Foundation development. For my own part, I’ve put together and open-sourced a Grunt workflow for automating email builds. let your ESP handle the inlining for you (if it supports it). When you send a lot of emails (imagine a campaign with millions of emails), they are not all sent instantaneously. Rémi Parmentier also has another responsive technique that doesn’t need media queries and makes use of calc() function.