Almost 50% of all emails opens from mobile devices, and this figure will only increase. Therefore, the importance of using adaptive HTML email templates for email marketing campaigns increases.
Develop a basic HTML Email Template, which will be displayed correctly in different clients, is quite difficult. But developing a template that will also display correctly on all mobile and tablet devices is even more difficult.
Luckily, there are designers and developers who have created collections of editable, free, responsive email templates that work across all clients and devices.
Block-modular adaptive templates
Litmus Responsive Email Templates (7 templates)
Litmus has released a selection of seven responsive email templates with ready-made design. They come with source PSD files:
Green Village HTML Templates
This is a minimalistic block-modular HTML letter template for mailing, which is suitable for various purposes. The downloadable package includes both the original PSD file and the HTML code:
Responsive Email Template by Email on Acid
This block-modular template offers three design options that display depending on the screen width. By default, it supports 1-3 columns. It uses media queries, so it converts to a single-column layout on mobile devices:
Basic Responsive Email Template
Simple Responsive HTML Email
Simple block-modular adaptive HTML letter template for email newsletter uses media queries and floating width to ensure maximum compatibility:
Responsive & Flat Newsletter Template
Responsive Email Template
Email Templates with a Clean Structure
Responsive Email Blueprints from MailChimp (6 templates)
MailChimp has released a selection of six responsive ready-made HTML email templates called Email Blueprints. They include some elements of Mailchimp's specific template language, but can be easily removed if you are not a MailChimp user:
Ink – A Responsive Email Framework (4 templates)
It's adaptive Email framework from ZURB, which includes a 12-column grid and simple UI elements for quickly designing emails:
Antwort Responsive Email Layout Templates (2 templates)
Antwort offers reliable adaptive HTML email templates with extensive documentation and adjustable width depending on screen sizes. Templates work great in mobile clients, as well as in all major desktop clients and Outlook (2000+):
Salted, A Responsive Email Template
The template is based on the code used by Litmus for its own mailings. Offers a simple framework for building responsive emails created in HTML:
A Table-Based (but Responsive) Email Template
This one is beautiful HTML letter template was developed based on MailChimp's Email Blueprints and Sean Powell's Email Boilerplate. This is a responsive tabular email template that already includes Mailchimp merge tags ( they can be removed if they are not needed):
Respmail Responsive Email Template
Improved version of MailChimps Email Blueprints with big amount options, a newly defined structure and a number of fixes for Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail... This template has been tested and carefully analyzed for compatibility. It's also incredibly easy to set up:
rwdemail
Designed based on ZURB's Ink templates. This is a project that allows you to automate everything from SASS precompilation, CSS inlining, CSS/HTML, image minification, to S3 image hosting and Litmus testing. Using INK templates and their CSS samples, you can create HTML email templates any level of difficulty.
Future-Proof Responsive Email Template Without Media Queries
What if you could create responsive email templates even in environments with poor CSS support? You will find the template here:
Other Resources for Creating Email Templates
- Responsive Email Patterns - a selection of templates and modules for adaptive emails;
- Cerberus - templates for responsive emails;
- Really Good Emails - the best designs for HTML email templates;
- Responsive Email Resources - a selection of tools for creating responsive email templates.
Translation of the article " 30 Free Responsive Email and Newsletter Templates» was prepared by the friendly project team
Email marketing continues to gain momentum every year along with the increase in the number of Internet users. Databases of companies are growing, sending letters to each client manually becomes backbreaking work. Email marketing helps make the process of sending emails more convenient, faster, and creates the basis for creativity. HTML and regular email templates are used for mailing.
If we talk in simple language, email marketing is a well-thought-out system of sending letters to email addresses located in the database.
This type of marketing is based on templates of letters and pages that are built into letters.
Email templates come in 2 types:
Plain ones are just a few sentence text emails with or without attachments, rarely with creative formatting. These email templates are commonly used in business correspondence.
HTML letter templates are bright, designed to attract attention and create interest in the web page, which are embedded in the letter.
What are the advantages and disadvantages?
Let's start with the usual templates.
A large number of “pluses” is a good indicator. But they are unlikely to be able to sell such letters during the first communication with a client, especially an ordinary one. Unlike HTML emails.
It is difficult to create HTML emails on your own without sufficient preparation, although it is precisely such messages, beautiful, postcard-like, that attract much more attention than simple “black and white” ones. Templates for HTML letters and emails can be created directly on mailing service sites that have long included this functionality as mandatory for organizing mailing letters to users.
Basic services
When describing the main sites for email newsletters, it makes sense to compare them according to the most important characteristics.
Number of templates |
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Template quality |
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Available topics |
Holidays – Business Online store – Tourism – General, etc. |
-Holidays - Restaurant – Tourism – Business Online store, etc. |
- Are common Holidays – Tourism – Business Online store |
-Online store - Beauty and health – Tourism - Holidays |
Online store – Tourism |
Adaptation of writing for different screens |
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Yes (up to 1,500 letters to 100 addresses) |
Yes (up to 15,000 letters to 2,000 addresses) |
Yes (up to 6,000 letters to 5,000 addresses) |
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Free use of templates |
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Ability to use previously used templates |
UniSender.
One of the most popular Russified services for creating email newsletters. 3 editors are available: for block templates (text and visual content can be changed at your discretion), for ready-made basic and HTML templates, for working with your own HTML email template. It’s not difficult to understand the editors, the system gives hints, and all the necessary tools are at the top of the working page.
SendPulse
An equally popular, understandable and convenient site for creating HTML letter templates and working with ready-made templates. Among those reviewed, it has the largest free package and quite a lot of templates for creating a successful newsletter.
The site allows you to create your own templates in a simplified HTML editor, designer, or by downloading your own template from your computer. The constructor is easy to understand; you can create beautiful letter“from scratch”, independently choosing pictures, fonts and placing it all in the required location.
Rumailer
A modest site in terms of design with good templates and a relatively large free package. The functionality for working with a limited number of templates is not as wide as experienced users would like. There is no convenient block editor at all.
The advantage of the service is that it has great opportunities for exporting subscribers. They can be downloaded by activity, by sheet, as well as by login or domain in an email address.
GetResponse
The service is famous for the largest number of available templates in 24 categories. The pleasant interface of the site itself is complemented by a user-friendly block editor of ready-made and custom HTML templates for letters to clients.
The editor is easy to use. Blocks can be easily dragged, rearranged, deleted or added. When you click on the block, a working menu appears with buttons for performing basic actions with images and text content.
In order to view the templates, you need to start working with the mailing list by entering the sender’s information and the subject of the letter, and then select the “Block email builder” button. If the user wants to work with his own template, then he needs to select “HTML Code Editor”.
Mailerlite
An email distribution site that many users call the simplest. The functionality of working with templates is quite limited, but the basic actions are doable. Even a beginner can understand the editor, because... it is simple and clear. Just like on other platforms, you can upload your HTML templates for email newsletters, edit and use them.
How to choose a suitable HTML letter template?
Choosing a service and template for email distribution is a responsible matter that must be approached wisely, because... the further success of a commercial organization or entrepreneur partly depends on this. When choosing a service, you can rely on the above characteristics, reviews from friends or users on the Internet, examples of work on the site, as well as your own feelings about working with a particular service.
An additional answer to the question “how do you know which template to choose?” Statistics on the most popular services could serve. It could, but let’s face it, the percentage of openings, transitions, clicks, and unsubscribes practically does not depend on the service. The only thing we noted was that, for example, on SandPulse (luxurious free limits) a slightly higher percentage of emails end up in the “spam” folder rather than in the inbox. And no one else can control the percentage of errors published by the services themselves, except empirically in isolated cases.
We wrote in detail about the free capabilities of mailing services.
How to find out which email template Is it suitable in each specific case? This can only be done by working with different templates and choosing the best design and content. Many companies first use ready-made templates, modifying them, and then create their own. This a good option if writing skills html of letters and pages no, but the newsletter seems to be a useful tool.
Internet services for business.
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Hello dear readers - site!
Today I will show you how to make a beautiful one for Email newsletters.
It has long been no secret to anyone that the entire Internet business is built on E-mail marketing.
Every day, with the help of newsletters, info-businessmen and bloggers contact their subscribers, offering them various goods and services.
But in order for such a proposal to be noticed and not immediately sent to the spam folder, you need to draw attention to it.
To do this, it would be appropriate to create a beautifully designed HTML letter template.
Especially for you, I have selected a test template that will be a visual aid.
What and how will we do?
We will create the simplest HTML email template (), which will consist of a main dialog box and two secondary columns.
Creating a wireframe and container table
First, we need to create an HTML frame for our letter. It will look like this:
Please note that I set the width of the table to 99%, leaving a small space around it. This is not my personal desire, but a requirement of some Web mail clients such as Gmail and Yahoo. The rest of our email will be in that one table cell, which is centered.
The next step is to create a table wrapper of the actual content of the letter. Save maximum size designs no more than 600 pixels:
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Along with the light shadow on the white background, our email template was stretched to 640px, but it work zone still remains equal to 600px .
Creating a header
Now that the main table has been created, it’s time to start filling it with the necessary content. I'll start from the very top of the letter template and slowly work my way down.
Top line
From now on, I will exclude previously written code (table frames).
So the first row of the spreadsheet has a blue background with white font and a link to the web version of the email. It is very important to equip your letter with such a link, since not all email clients display its contents equally correctly.
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And for her appearance meets CSS style:
/* Fonts and Typography */ .footer ( font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #fff; padding-right: 20px; )
Social media logo and icons
Going lower, we see the logo and , which are located on the same level.
The following code is responsible for their output:
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In addition, the following styles are added to all our images in the HTML email template:
/* Backgrounds */ .email_background ( width: 640px; background: url("email_images/email_bg.jpg") repeat-y; ) /* Images */ img ( display: block; border: none; )
This way, social icons sit in their place in their own nested table cells and have no relation to other sections of the letter. This allows them to be changed as the need arises.
Adding content
First we'll start by adding the first image, which in this design is 560px by 210px. You can also see the cute deformed shadow below the image that was done separately, allowing you to quickly change images without losing the shadow. Let's move on to the code:
![](https://i1.wp.com/email_images/featured_image.jpg)
![](https://i0.wp.com/email_images/featured_shadow.jpg)
Here we've created a new row to display large images, setting the width to 560px and adding 20px padding on both sides. We did the same actions with the shadow.
Adding a title and content
Moving below, we see the title of the main material and the content itself. Here the following code is responsible for displaying the content:
This is your featured story
There is an opinion that Pattaya became a popular resort due to the fact that American sailors often vacationed here, who, however, are here and now a large number of and they are always surrounded by several taikas. Naturally, it is less popular among our compatriots than Egypt and Türkiye. But native speech can be heard everywhere here)) and in shopping complexes while shopping and in many local bars)). Pattaya is mainly famous for its nightlife, sea and textiles. Of course, among other things, you can find many other interesting things here. Here you can rent any vehicle, including jeeps and scooters. For motorcycle lovers, this is a paradise. To rent a motorbike, you may not even need a license; for just 100-500 baht (plus a deposit of 2,000 baht) you can rent a decent scooter and ride for your own pleasure!
To change the appearance of the header and text of a letter template, just use the following styles:
H1 ( color: #e95f03; font-family: Futura, Verdana, Sans-Serif; padding: 0; margin: 0; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; ) .content ( padding: 0; margin: 0 ; ) p ( font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; )
Additional Content
Now we move on to the additional content of our template. As you have already noticed, it is divided into two columns. Each column contains a photo, a headline and a small preview. All this is created using the following code:
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This is a secondary headline |
This is a secondary headline |
Despite the ruined reputation of Pattaya, here you can find out that the notorious Thai massage is not just a cover for brothels. In Thailand they really give good massages, and the best specialists In this art, blind masters are considered. Their secret is hypersensitivity fingers. |
The main street and the heart of Pattaya, which leaves no one indifferent. Local Arbat, Times Square and Sodom and Gomorrah in one glass, Walking Street is a real source of love and hate for both local residents, and for visitors. When we say Pattaya, we mean Walking Street. |
Here we still need to add additional style. Here he is:
H2 ( color: #e95f03; font-family: Futura, Verdana, Sans-Serif; padding: 0; margin: 0; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; )
Closing an HTML email template
So we're getting close to the end of our pattern. Here we need to close the main window using the image and the following code:
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One of the most important aspects is to add an unsubscribe link at the end of the email template to unsubscribe from receiving such emails (). Yes, yes, I know, you don't want to lose subscribers. But you also can’t irritate them. You must provide customers with the opportunity to refuse to receive mailings that may have been boring to them for a long time. Well, at the same time, remind you who the author is.
Here you need the following code:
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