Designing, Templating, Inlining and Sending Email!
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this show, Scott and Wes talk about about sending both transactional and marketing email. Everything from designing to templating to inlining the CSS to getting it sent. Enjoy!
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Show Notes
0:00
- WELCOME!
2:00
- An update on GraphCool, Prisma and Yoga
3:45
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- #TastyTreats
5:40
- Email ain't easy!
6:20
- How do Scott and Wes use email in their apps and businesses?
- Transactional vs Marketing Email
9:00
- Dealing with multiple emails and modifier
- Signing in with Facebook vs Email?!
11:00
- Transactional Email
- The Process to creating single one-off email
13:00
- Scott's Setup:
- Handlebars
- Meteor Email Docs
-
Wes' Setup
- Pug Templating - the artist formerly known as Jade
- Juice CSS Inliner
- Foundation for Emails
- Inky
- NodeMailer
- Postmark
20:00
30:00
- Designing Emails
- CSS is very limited
- MJML React Email Templating
- Tony from Twitter also told me about HTML
37:22
- Debugging and Testing Emails
- Litmus
- Email on Acid is way cheaper
45:00
52:00
- Host your own Platforms
- Sendy
- Email Octopus
- Mautic
- MailTrain
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- Scott: Personal Capital
- Wes: Nothing is Sick this week
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.0 | Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.8 | Welcome to Syntax everyone. This is the podcast where we dish out the tastiest web development treats with me is as always is Scott Tolinsky. Hello Scott how you doing today? |
| 0:21.5 | Hey, I'm doing pretty good. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm off to like a fresh start today. |
| 0:26.5 | I applied the update that's been bugging me |
| 0:29.5 | in the top right corner of my Macbook |
| 0:31.2 | for like a solid straight month now. It's like do you want to do this no do it I'll do it next tomorrow and then are you |
| 0:37.8 | finally yes so you upgraded to high-theera no this is this is just a standard update. They're just so bothersome on OSX or Mac OS. They're just like that little pop-up pops up at all times and won't go away. I went hunting for a way to like disable those annoying pop-ups. |
| 0:55.0 | They're so bad. I couldn't find anything. It's so annoying. It's I don't want to |
| 0:59.7 | update my computer right now because it's going to take it reminds me of the old |
| 1:03.0 | Windows days where you would like update and then it would be like four hours |
| 1:06.9 | remaining you're like damn it there's my entire day I know I did it right |
| 1:10.3 | before the show and I was sort of I thought it was going to be kind of quick and then it was like it will be |
| 1:15.0 | 20 minutes and I was like 20 minutes are you serious okay I guess yeah yeah no baby |
| 1:21.0 | whatever how you doing though I'm doing pretty good. Pretty good. I've been |
| 1:26.3 | Working away on my graph QL course, which I've been really I've had some like I don't know it's a bit hard to get ahead around |
| 1:34.7 | everything and all the different moving parts getting it all working together and I |
| 1:38.7 | feel like I've hit a stride now with all the different pieces and I feel like I can just like I'm really confident in |
| 1:45.4 | being able to teach all of the stuff that I have set up right now. |
| 1:49.2 | So now I'm just trying to wrapping up the app that we're going to build build then I have to style it and design it and and then it's time to record so I'm pretty pretty excited about that. |
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