Overview of the Email Designer

With the email designer, you can design the content of email templates and emails used in communication campaigns by adding elements such as paragraphs, images, headline, background color, buttons.

As a campaign manager, you create employee email communications using an email editor. Create your own emails using a blank form or use a template as a starting point. When you create an email using a blank form, you can copy formatted text from an external source and paste it successfully into the email editor. The designer retains all the formatting such as carriage return, font size, type, and color, italics, underline, bullet and numbered lists. Recipients of the emails see the text in the same format as in the email editor.

The email designer displays these details:

• Email: Displays the name of the email currently being designed. The drop down displays all emails created for a specific communication campaign.
• Template: The template selected to create the email. You can select another template or a blank form to create the email from scratch. The templates available to you depend on which templates are selected in your communication team.
• Subject: This is the subject appearing in the Subject field of the email.
• Background Color: By default, the background color for the email is white. You can change the color.

These widgets help you design the email.

• Paragraph:
  • Enter text and format it with several formatting options.
  • Copy and paste text and images from MS Word and Google Docs.
• Image:
  • Add images to the email.
  • Enter the URL where the image is located or select an image from the media library.
  • Define the width, height, background color, and alignment of the image.
• Rule:
  • Add rules to create partitions between various sections of the email.
  • Define the rule color, width, alignment, and background color.
• Headline:
  • Add a headline to the email by entering headline text.
  • Define the text color, text style, background color, and align the text.
  • Add links and tokens such as First Name, Last Name, Full Name and Email Address.
• Button:
  • Add buttons and links to the email to obtain responses from employees.
  • Define if the button or link will use an external or a predefined link by the campaign administrator.
  • Enter text to appear on the button or link.
  • Track clicks.
• Space: Add space between various sections of the email.

While designing the email, you can add, move, and delete sections and add predefined column layouts.