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by andrei_says_ 2966 days ago
Modular template based responsive html email builder with version control, comments and approvals.

Our marketing department sends 10+ campaigns/week, each goes through multiple changes and compliance approval. It’s very time consuming, especially when someone needs to touch the code.
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khamba 2965 days ago
This looks interesting. Is there any solution that you are already using?

> especially when someone needs to touch the code

Do you not generally touch the code? Is some kind of WYSIWYG editor used to create an email or is the code human written?

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andrei_says_ 2962 days ago
Right now using an in-house app to make edits to emails initially built in dream weaver.

So, html email template (no unlined css) > merge word content in dreamweaver > upload to custom web app > app uses premailer to in-line the specified css > make changes to the content via ckeditor (which messes up the html in many cases) > export in pardot-ready format.

The app versions the content changes and allows comments as well easy email tests. We do 20+ revisions per campaign so that’s a necessity.

This was built 5 years ago and still works but getting inadequate for the complexity of responsive emails.

I’ve looked at this: https://beefree.io/ but it does not allow the creation of custom content modules. So looking into building a new version of our own, again.

It’s a pain but nothing compared to debugging email markup.

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