Creating a Responsive HTML Email

Designing HTML emails can be challenging, considering the limited capabilities of desktop and web email readers, combined with the small screen sizes of mobile devices. Enter responsive HTML email. Let Chris Converse show you how to design an elegant email that will adapt to varying screen sizes and render correctly in over 30 different mail clients, including Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and multiple versions of Outlook, as well as Android, iOS, and Windows phones. Learn to add complex features like background graphics, rounded corners, and shadows that don’t break your email when they can’t be displayed. Then create call-to-action buttons, add animation, and style the whole thing with CSS. Plus, explore tools and services that will help you test your campaigns. Start now and learn what is possible with HTML email. This course was created and produced by Chris Converse. We are honored to host this content in our library.

Topics include:

• Creating the graphics
• Setting up the base layout structure
• Styling the table rows for the headline, banner, etc.
• Creating buttons
• Adding CSS media queries
• Styling the content
• Incorporating animation and web fonts
• Validating your code
• Testing in various email clients

About the Author

Chris Converse applies design and UX principles to technology, from motion graphics to CSS-driven websites. Chris Converse graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in graphic design. He began his career in print, designing and preparing digital files for commercial offset printing. Chris has spent the last 22 years studying and applying design and interface principles to technology. His work spans various distribution media (CD-ROMs, web sites, and interactive DVDs) and applies many authoring media and techniques (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, image optimization, motion graphics, Flash, Director, Shockwave, sound engineering, digital video compression, PHP, and ASP). Chris has a passion for and a commitment to conceiving, creating, and delivering the best possible user experience, regardless of the medium.

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 1h 43m
• Instructor: Chris Converse