About
Email design is the red-headed stepchild of web design but with some help and guidance maybe it won’t be for you.
Nice of you to stop by and we hope you’ll find a little email design inspiration. This site was created mostly for one reason—it was hard finding a variety of email design inspiration. Yes, Campaign Monitor has a gallery of some really great looking emails but there wasn’t enough variety for the projects I was working on. Some emails require big, bold and ugly while some require simple, text-based solutions. The collection here should reflect that.
Upcoming features and version history
The first version of this site was designed and developed in about two days. Now we are on version three and have added quite a few features. With version two we implemented the site into Drupal (a content management system), added pagination, a contact and file upload form, we created a resource section, added RSS and Twitter and increased page load times considerably. With version three we’ve redesigned the site to look and function better. We added a “sticky header” at the bottom of the window. I haven’t seen this done before but figured it was worth a try. I think it helps keep the meat of the site up front and center and keeps the header nicely tucked away but still pretty usable.
How this site was built
If you’re a front-end developer nerd like me (David) you may know about the fairly new HTML5 spec. I won’t go through the whole specification but take a look at the source code if interested. With version three we are using some new CSS3 properties like rounded corners, box shadows and RGBA. These should all degrade gracefully if you are using Internet Explorer. Please update to Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera if you are! Thank me later.
Interested in advertising, have designs, or just want to say hello?
If you’d like to send in a design or ten please submit designs here or forward a group to submit@htmlemailgallery.com. We’d love to have them.
Interested in advertising? Use the contact form and let us know what’s on your mind. For information on advertising visit our BuySellAds account. We’re not trying to get rich but we have spent quite a bit of time on the site and do need to cover hosting, beer, etc. These ads are very highly targeted to designers and marketing people so for the small price we’re asking you’ll get some good, quality impressions.
