eMail Styling

  • Resolved Pieter Sand

    (@beachholiday)


    1 year, 12 months ago

    Dear Support,

    We are currently building eMail Sequences and Automations in Fluent CRM and find it very intuitive and powerful.

    We find, however, that emails do not display consistently in various email readers: Outlook (desktop, web, mobile), Gmail (mobile, web), Yahoo (mobile, web), iPhone/iPad (mobile, tablet), …

    In particular, ‘buttons’ and ‘spacers’ are struggling are not consistent across readers with regards to alignment and spacing. The solution we have found so far is the following:
    – button: place the button in the middle of 3 x columns
    – spacer: place it inside a single column

    There are some areas that can be improved, we believe:
    – we had to style the email footer outside of FluentCRM with a HTML editor and then paste the code into the editor.
    – setting colours for the buttons is awkward, e.g. the preset colours have no consistent effect across various readers.

    We really like that the email builder uses similar blocks as Gutenberg does. This is fantastic and it makes creating emails really easy.

    Do you have documentation with ‘best practices’ for email styling?

    On the FluentCRM website, we have not seen much in terms of helpful tips.

    Many thanks for your guidance on this.

    Pieter

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  • Plugin Support Tahmid ul Karim

    (@tahmidulkarim)

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hello Pieter,

    Glad to hear that you have liked our plugin.

    Regarding your issue – some of the email clients don’t fully support all the CSS styles and thus there might be some inconsistencies across different email clients. But most of the email clients should be consistent with the design of the emails. Anyway, we will still look into it and if there is anything we can fix from our end, we would surely do that in the future updates.

    Also, thank you for your suggestions regarding the email footer and setting colors for the button. I will take those as feature requests.

    We do not have any specific documentation on the best practices for email styling but you can find a lot of relevant docs online.

    Thank you.

    Thread Starter Pieter Sand

    (@beachholiday)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Dear @tahmidulkarim

    I noticed that the new Gutenberg block modules of WP 6.0 have become available within FluentCRM.

    Would it be possible to activate some Gutenberg page builders within the FluentCRM email editor?

    It would be fantastic, if the following two plugins and their modules would become active within the editor:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/kadence-blocks/
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/generateblocks/

    This would dramatically improve how emails can be designed.

    May I propose this as a feature request?

    Many thanks,

    Piet

    Thread Starter Pieter Sand

    (@beachholiday)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Dear @tahmidulkarim

    We found another simple solution to the issue of buttons not appearing properly spaced in Outlook:

    Edit the button block in HTML and simply place a span with padding around the button text:

    <span style=”color: #000000;padding-top: 15px; padding-bottom:15px”>button text</span>

    This significantly improved the presentation of the buttons in desktop Outlook without impacting on the display in Gmail, Yahoo, …

    May we suggest that this is incorporated in an improved / updated version of Fluent CRM in the future, as a feature request? It is such a simple solution.

    Many thanks for considering these feature requests.

    Piet

    Plugin Support Tahmid ul Karim

    (@tahmidulkarim)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Hello @beachholiday,

    Thank you for your suggestion regarding Gutenberg page builder support within FluentCRM emails. I will take that as a feature request.

    Also, thank you for sharing the solution regarding the button issue in outlook. I will forward it to our developers so they will take a deeper look into it and if possible they will add the feature in the future updates.

    Thank you.

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