pierrenel / mailchimp-boilerplate

MailChimp repeatable blocks boilerplate

Mailchimp boilerplate with repeatable blocks

This MailChimp HTML email boilerplate contains useful repeatable blocks with mc:repeatable and mc:edit attributes.

Imported as a MailChimp Template it gives authors the opportunity to create, duplicate and rearrange different sections in a newsletter.

Check this sized screenshot with all available blocks.

Included:

• 1 column text
• 2 columns text
• Action button
• Banner + optional caption
• 2 columns thumbnails + text
• Image + text column (right or left aligned)
• All the above with inset & background
• Calendar + text (right or left aligned)

The boilerplate is used as a starting point for MailChimp templates at spatie.be.

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Postcardware

You're free to use this package (it's Creative Commons Licensed), but if it makes it to your production environment we highly appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using.

Our address is: Spatie, Kruikstraat 22, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium.

The best postcards will get published on the open source page on our website.

Usage

Customize

• Download or clone this repository
• Adapt and tweak the HTML and embedded CSS in email.html

Upload to MailChimp

• Make a .zip file containing email.html and all *.png files
• Go to MailChimp's Templates section
• Select Create template > Code your own > Import zip
• Upload the .zip and name your template

Compose campaigns

When creating new Campaigns in MailChimp select this layout in the Template step, tab Saved templates.

Compose your email in the Edit step:

• Hover a content section and duplicate blocks with the + at the bottom left
• Change a block type in the dropdown
• Drag blocks to reorder

More info in this MailChimp KB article

Caveats

• Use images with the exact size. Outlook 2013 doesn't handle the max-width styles, larger images break the layout.
• Use line-heights in %, eg. line-height: 150%
• Caution with importing custom webfonts in Outlook 2013: they tend to break the font stack. Include conditional styles with !important to avoid Times New Roman / serif body text.

<!--[if mso 15]>
<style type="text/css">
    h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6,
    .headerCell, .footerCell,
    .textContent, .textContentLast,
    .buttonContent,
    .emailCalendarDay, .emailCalendarMonth {
        font-family: Arial, sans-serif !important;
        mso-line-height-rule: exactly;
    }
</style>
<![endif]-->

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Testing

Test with MailChimp's Preview and Inbox Preview functionality. Send test mails to real world mailboxes.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• Willem Van Bockstal
• All Contributors

About Spatie

Spatie is a webdesign agency based in Antwerp, Belgium. You'll find an overview of all our open source projects on our website.

License

Creative Commons License. Please see License File for more information.