Don't Bother Ripping your Hair Out: New Email Templates Category

No More Ripping your Hair Out: New Email Templates Category

on Nov 17th 2009 with 23 comments

I’m pleased to announce the launch of our newest category on ThemeForest: email templates! If you happen to be in need of an email client friendly newsletter for your business, we’ve got you covered. For $8 – $10 dollars, you can avoid the hassles of inline styles, email compatibility, and tables! Why rip your hair out when a ten dollar bill can solve the problem?

The Initial Offering

We’ve launched with only a handful of beautiful choices; however, if you don’t find the one you need today, remember that we’ll be adding to this list on a daily basis (hint hint, authors).

Airmail

Airmail

“Airmail is a professionally built and designed custom HTML email template! Perfect for just about anyone – usable for everything from newsletters to eFlyers to whitepapers.”

Atlantica

Atlantica

“Atlantica Mail is a professionally built and designed custom HTML email template; perfect for just about anyone – usable for everything from newsletters to eFlyers to whitepapers.”

CleanMail

CleanMail

“CleanMail is a simple yet sexy email template package with 5 different color schemes!”

TheClub

TheClub

“theClub is a darker color two column template geared towards the nightlife! With this template, you get the original CSS as well as the ready-to-mail inline CSS .”

Quantum Email Newsletter

Quantum Email Newsletter

“A modern & clean HTML email template; comes in three colors: green, blue & pink.”

So if you Have a Moment…

Pay a visit to our newest category on ThemeForest, and considering picking up a new template. On the other hand, if you’re an author on ThemeForest – time to create some tables! There’s money to be made!


 
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  • http://www.joestrong.co.uk Joe

    Much needed section! Email templates are one of those harder things to get right what with the different email software and how they deal with stylesheets.

  • http://netdome.ca Dasani

    How is it working? Does it attach the class to email?

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Not sure what you mean…

      • http://netdome.ca Dasani

        I actually figure it out already. Thank you thought.

  • http://www.designfollow.com/ designfollow

    thank for the post

  • http://www.jeffadams.co.uk Jeff Adams

    It’s back to the old days with inline styling, tables and testing galore lol.

  • http://vector.laroouse.com esranull

    I m not understand How is it working?

  • Colin

    It would be nice if the live previews gave you the option of being emailed the template. I’d like to see how this works in my email client.

    • http://designsnack.com Justin Scheetz

      That’s a fantastic idea actually, and it would have to be up to the developer to include a “Send Test Email” button, but I’d certainly be up to the challenge!

  • http://designsnack.com Justin Scheetz

    Woo, my email template was used for the post thumbnail! :)

    This category is going to be huge.

    • Colin

      You mentioned on your template page that you had it working in Outlook, yet Outlook 07 doesn’t support background images. How did you get the top right header background to work?

  • http://ramaboo.com David Singer

    Just an idea but in addition to Live Preview you should have a Send Sample button that allows you to enter an email and the system will send you a sample email in that format so that you can see if it works well in your favourite email clients since we all know email programs are just a wacky as browsers (I am looking at you MS).

    • http://www.nouveller.com/ Benjamin Reid

      Nice idea, but then you go just rip the copy the code from your email client.

      • josh

        What is your point, you can rip them anyway. You do not even need to rip them due to how simple they need to be.

        A lot of people don’t seem to know much about email so they see pretty things and assume they will look pretty when sent.

        Given how the samples are marked up I would be wary of paying money for stuff that is not going to work.

  • Takker

    Cool post Jeffrey

    I am missing CodeIgniter Tuts. Any news on this one?

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      They’re still the queue. Just so much to cover. :)

  • Topher

    You need to add a browser compatibility chart like you have on the site templates. Web based email clients still render differently from one browser to another.

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Thanks for the suggestion, Topher!

  • josh

    Are the samples representative of what the markup looks like when you receive it?

    • josh

      Hello? Anyone?

      Is the markup in the samples indicitive of the files you receive because well, I dont particularly want css files for my emails like the samples appear to be.

  • http://www.avangelistdesign.com Avangelist

    Well I cannot see how any of these will work.

    For a start not a single one uses inline styles and I can’t imagine you wrote all of them twice just so you could show them as a web page example.

    That seems a heck of a lot of work you have put in and I wonder about the quality. The designs themselves are very good, but there are so many things that wont work in the most common mail clients.

    Lists for example don’t render how you want them to in Outlook, background image support has already been mentioned.

    Everyone has missed the fact that your file has a head with a in it, by default 99% of mail clients will strip anything outside of the body including the body tags themselves – that is of course if the exchange hasn’t already done that pre delivery to recipient

    Personally, i wouldn’t release these as a product without a list of supported platforms knowing what the email marketing industry is like.

  • http://www.avangelistdesign.com Avangelist

    In addition, the html contains links in the URIBL.

  • http://wealthstation.net Omoba

    I have serious knowledge issues with HTML emails, I know about the aspect that is covered by HTML & CSS but my problem starts with PHP script that makes it really work so that it can deliver, I want a support on the PHP aspect of it so that my HTML can send mails to all the emails in a database table.

    I love anyone to solve this problem for me, I prefer in sent to my email: omobaism@yahoo.com, even if I have to pay for it, thank you in advance.