Email Templates

While designers and researchers widely discuss whether dark mode for email is healthy and necessary, people keep using it more and more. What is dark mode? The dark mode displays light-colored texts, icons, and UI elements on dark backgrounds.  How does it work? Some believe that dark mode shifts colors to contrast ones (opposite ones from the color wheel) when an email is opened on a device with the dark mode. But this is not quite true. It does not...

This blog post was originally written on April 24, updated December 5, 2019. Recently we published blog posts on hottest email design trends for 2019 and how to make your first email campaign, where, in a nutshell, we showed what elements an email should contain. In this post, we are going to deepen in the details to show how to create your first email with the Stripo email template builder. Ways to start building an email There are three ways...

Now that customers are used to receiving tons of promotions, only sincere concern and appreciation may attract their attention to an email marketing campaign. And event reminder emails are a good way to do it. Once people have already purchased your products, be it a ticket to a conference or a video tutorial, you may think that your mission is done here. But humans, being extremely busy, tend to forget about any kind of event. And we need to politely...

Great news, everyone! On November 21, Gmail started rolling out the support of dynamic emails in the Gmail app on Android and iOS. The functionality is expected to be available for all users in like 15 days. You will not have to do anything to see AMP emails in your inboxes on mobile devices as dynamic emails are turned on by default for all Gmail users, including G-Suite. A little excursion into the history of AMP for Email In March 2019, Google rolled...

The blog post was originally published on November 12, Updated November 22 at 22.00 UTC. The Voting is closed! As per the conditions of our Contest, on November 22, at 10 PM UTC we closed the voting. All the "Voting" buttons are now inactive. We congratulate the winner and authors of the TOP 5 email templates. Next week, we will contact them all. The Stripo team wants to thank all the designers for participating and everyone for voting for the best email...

You have probably heard that last year in the USA alone the Christmas retail sales generated impressive $720 bln. And other holidays can also boast about these impressive numbers!! Doesn’t it make us want to get a share of the pie? But wait a minute! We need to think the strategy through because holiday email marketing differs from regular promo emails and requires a somewhat different approach. Start with the holiday! Holiday No matter how trivial this sounds, but you...

One of the most striking concerns in the email creation process is choosing the right font. Weight, height, width, color, shape, spacing… Does everything matter? Yes, it does, but the most crucial thing is to choose the font which is legible; all other font parameters are minor. Watch our short video about the best fonts for emails, their types, web-safe fonts, and how to apply festive ones with Stripo. And what is most important — how to choose the right...

You asked — we listened. Stripo is now integrated with Zapier.  Why is this integration important? Stripo is integrated with 30 ESPs and email clients. And this list is constantly growing. However, it does not cover all existing ESPs and CRMs.  Previously those users whose ESPs were not on the list had to download a necessary email template as HTML, then open it with any code editor (like Notepad, Sublime, Atom, etc.) and then import — copy and paste — this HTML file...