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How to create an email with the email builder?
The email builder is a template which offers you unlimited possibilities for designing a newsletter. With no programming skills at all, you can design your newsletter flexibly, while at the same time having access to various design templates. Even the templates can be completely changed, which is why it is easier to start with a template.
Create email
If you create a new message, select the template “E-Mail Builder 2017”. Now you can choose from an existing template, in which styles and articles are already integrated, or you may create an empty mailing. Please note that in an empty template the configuration editor is also without any content because it is missing necessary Cascading-Style-Sheets (CSS).
By clicking OK you created a new message with the email builder! Now you can edit the design and the content of the template.
Editor
The following actions are available in the editor:
| Settings: | These options are on hand: convert CSS into Inline CSS /do not convert but show saving errors / ignore |
| Reset changes: | Set changes back which were not saved yet |
| Save: | Caching |
| Save & exit: | Save and go to the message details |
Further settings
On the left side directly under the menu bar allows you to make the settings for the following functions:
| Resolution: | Yu can choose between fullscreen and diverse resolutions in landscape or portrait |
| Hightlight editable elements: | The editable values get marked yellow |
| Show layout actions: | ??? |
| Edit preheader: | Here you can create and edit the preheader of your mailing |
| Edit CSS: | Configurate the design of your newsletter |
Add a new layout
You have created a new newsletter with the email builder.
With a click on the button add layout you can adjust design and contents to the template by selecting a category on the left side. :
Mit diesen Bausteinen können Sie sich Ihr Creative zusammenstellen. Wenn Sie danach mit der Mouse über die Bereiche fahren, werden diese gelb angezeigt.
Nun können Sie einen ausgewählten Bereich bearbeiten.
Edit a layout
In the Editor you have the option to select templates, exchange pictures, insert a personalization for your recipients, and many more.
You can also put a link behind a button. Enter the media browser via the three lines-button on the right to choose a pdf or picture file.
Footer
When it comes to the protection of data privacy the footer is the most important part of your email. Use a design template and then change all the data.
Make sure that your company information as well as the link to unsubscribe are included in every newsletter! You must not send an email without the reader’s option to unsubscribe!
Configuration
When you chose a template you can change different aspects of the layouts’ designs. Click on „Edit CSS“. Here you can edit the basic design of your email. Open up the sliders to edit font colors, size and so on. Go to Artikel > Text to define the look of your article text.
When your personal language setting is English the names of the CSS classes might still be in German and vice versa. This is because their names are hardcoded in the language the Master Template was programmed.
Textversion
Mailings that were constructed by using the email builder, get delivered as multipart and contain an automatically created test version. Click on „Text“ next to the button „HTML“ to have a look at the text version.
