Our easy-to-use drag and drop editor makes it a breeze to insert your own code into your mailings. Or for those more advanced with HTML, you can use a CYO template to design your campaign from top to bottom with your own HTML code. Check out these top 10 tips and recommendations for designing emails using your own HTML:
Top 10 Tips for using HTML code in a campaign
- Don’t send one large image in an email.
- Remove <body>, <head>, <meta>, <title>, <html>, or Doctype tags in your HTML.
- Use an HTML markup program like HTML Tidy to ensure you’ve closed all HTML tags.
- Don’t use image maps.
- Avoid colspans and rowspans.
- Inline styles are the most solid way to style your emails.
- Images should be jpegs or gifs, RGB color values, 72 dpi.
- Be sure to send a test of your mailings to a handful of email programs.
- Include a physical mailing address in the email’s footer to comply with CAN-SPAM.
- Always review and send a test of your campaign to yourself and someone else before sending it out to your list to double-check for errors.