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Jan 26 2024

Inbox Optimisation - Optimise the email preview text

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Inbox optimisation is a valuable tool designed to enhance the visibility and effectiveness of your email campaigns by providing a glimpse of the email content within the recipient's inbox. This feature allows you to strategically display a brief, engaging snippet of text that complements your email subject line. By leveraging this capability, you can significantly increase the likelihood of recipients opening and engaging with your emails.

How to use:

Once your newsletter is finished, click on the Inbox Preview Icon on the left side
A small window will open, allowing you to edit your Subject line and the Preview Text that will be displayed in the enduser's inbox
You can preview the finished text for both phone and Smartwatch to make sure your content has the optimal length

May 23 2017

Changing the size of the preview window

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Changing the size of the preview window

Mail Designer 365 allows you to set a zoom factor for device preview window:

When setting the device preview for example to 50%, you can have multiple device preview windows side by side on your display. In this way you can compare the preview for multiple devices at one glance.

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Background

Blend Modes

Campaigns

Configuring Text Styles

Creative Tools

Editing Text

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HTML Export

Image Areas

Images

Layout Blocks

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Optimizing your Template for Mobile

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Preparing your Design for Sending

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Tables

TextScout

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Basic compatibility tips

Changing the language settings of Mail Designer 365

Creating a new design

Early access to Beta versions of Mail Designer 365

How to use the search and sort features in Mail Designer 365

Keyboard shortcuts for alignment tools

Mail Designer 365 Best Practice Guide

The Style section

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3 Ways to Use Blend Modes

Aligning different objects

Combining design elements

Creating a Sketched Headline Effect

Creating Call to Action Buttons

Creating polygons and polygrams

Editing images using third party applications

Grouping design elements

Moving objects to the front or back

Using hex color values

Adding Patterns and Textures

Applying a background to a text area

Choosing a background

Edit the inner background of your design

3 Ways to Use Blend Modes

Using Blend Modes

Using Blend Modes on Text

Adding a From Address for Sending

Adding Email Contacts

Assigning attributes to your contacts in Mail Designer Campaigns

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Creating Audiences

Creating Signup Forms

Import Contacts from Mailchimp into Mail Designer Campaigns

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Inviting Team Members to Give Feedback on Designs

Saving your design

Sending a Campaign

Sending to Individual Recipients via Direct Mail

Set up a Team

Upload a Design to Crew Chat

Using the Testmail Feature

Sending to Individual Recipients in Campaigns Interface

Adjust letter spacing for text styles

Apply Emphasis to a Text Section

Creating "mobile only" text styles

Paste text and keep style

Setting up a fallback font

Using Text Styles

Adding borders to design elements

Creating a border for your design

Using Alignment & Distribution Tools

Using Mail Designer 365's image effects

Using the Pinning Tool

Using the Shadow Tool

Adding different types of text links

All Caps tool

Automatic hyphenation

Creating Nested Lists

Editing a text area

Editing text in an image area

Special characters

Using web fonts in Mail Designer 365

Working with font sets

Adding and duplicating graphics, shapes, And objects

Adding animated graphics

Adding video placeholders

Pixel precise element editing

Resizing objects

Rotating objects

Rounded corners

Using objects with text

Exporting to other email marketing tools

Exporting your design as a website

Hosting images for HTML email designs

Editing image areas

Optimizing your image area

Using Alt Text

Adding image masks

Adding photos

Adding your own logos and signatures

Filling a mask with your image

How to crop images

Using Retina images for the desktop version

Using the image optimisation tool

Using Unsplash Image Integration

Adding and removing layout blocks

Adding space in between layout blocks

Adjusting the size of areas within a layout block

Deleting saved custom layout blocks

Duplicating layout blocks

Saving custom made layout blocks

Text and image areas

Using Ready-Made Layout Blocks

Adding buttons

Adding different buttons with different links

Adding multiple links with a single image background

Creating a text link

Creating an image link

Format link styles

Formatting styles for text links

Why is my link being applied to the entire image area instead of my button or shape?

Adding layout blocks for the mobile version

Creating "mobile only" text styles

Hiding layout blocks in the smartphone view

Modifying a layout block for the mobile version

Working with text and links

Configuring SMTP email accounts

Converting email templates to JPG or PNG file

Exporting a design to Campaign Monitor

Exporting a design to Mailchimp

Formatting when uploaded to Mailchimp

Print your document

Using placeholders with Campaign Monitor

Using placeholders with Mailchimp

Creating a plain text version of your design

Inbox Optimisation - Optimise the email preview text

Checking your design for issues

Using the spell check and grammar check

Changing the size of the preview window

Inbox Optimisation - Optimise the email preview text

Open the preview window

Refreshing the preview window

Setting up a custom preview device

Accessing the tables feature

Adding borders to your table

Adding content to your tables

Building your table layout

Changing the color of your table

Using TextScout AI for Email Subject Lines

Deactivating Retina images for your template

Using Retina images with your design

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Adding multiple links with a single image background

Converting email templates to JPG or PNG file

Creating an image link

Using placeholders with Mailchimp

Hosting images for HTML email designs

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Sending to Individual Recipients in Campaigns Interface

Importing contacts from Apple Contacts to Mail Designer Campaigns

Importing Contacts from Campaign Monitor to use with Mail Designer 365 Campaigns

Sending to Individual Recipients via Direct Mail

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May 23 2017

Refreshing the preview window

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Hit the refresh button

If you change an image or layout block in your template, then you can click the refresh button to update the view in the preview window.

First, choose the device you want to use to preview your design.

Then, you can always find the refresh button on the top right of the device. It doesn't matter if your device is in the vertical position:

Or the horizontal position:

May 23 2017

Setting up a custom preview device

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Custom preview device

You can also define your own preview device, if you want to preview your template on a display with a certain resolution.

Open you email template. Click "Mail Designer 365." From the drop down menu, choose "Preferences:"

Click on the smartphone icon:

You will see a list of all the devices available for preview at the moment. Click the "+" in order to add a new display resolution to this list:

Change the name and choose the resolution you want to use.

Unchecking the checkbox in front of each entry lets you determine which devices will be available in the drop down menu.

May 23 2017

Open the preview window

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After you optimize your design for mobile devices, it's time to check the preview. We can now preview the result for multiple devices right within Mail Designer 365. This handy feature removes the need of sending preview emails to your own devices.

Open the preview window

Clicking one of the mobile preview buttons in the toolbar will open an additional window where you can see the mobile version of your design as it would appear on an iPhone or an Apple Watch.