Creating mail templates for CiviMail
Developing e-mail templates for anything used to be a long, hard, and frustrating process because not all e-mail clients work in the same way. With the growth of mobile platforms, this became even more difficult. Now there are freely available services that will let you create a tested e-mail template that you can use in CiviCRM.
How to do it…
There are freely available, tested templates that you can use with CiviCRM.
Navigate to http://www.campaignmonitor.com; this website provides a free templating service with a visual editor. Other mail templates are available, such as MailChimp templates at http://mailchimp.com/resources/html-email-templates/. Using the Campaign Monitor service you can create an excellent e-mail template that can be downloaded as an HTML file. Alternatively, you can simply choose one from the MailChimp collection.
Open the HTML file in a text editor.
Navigate to Administer | CiviMail | Message templates and create a new template.
Paste...
