When creating email templates used in your automated marketing and notifications, the default editor allows you to customize the content of your email templates to suit your business needs.
Add a link to an email message
To add a link to an email message, follow these steps:
Copy the URL of the page you want to link to the email. This can be a link to a website, a file on Google Drive, or any other link you want to send.
Under Email content, click where you want to insert the link. If you want to link text that is already in the email body to the URL, select the text.
Click the Insert/edit link
button.In the Insert/Edit Link popup, enter the following information:
Under URL, paste the URL of the link.
Under Text to display, enter the text you want to appear in the email.
Under Title, enter the text that you want to appear when a recipient hovers over the link.
Under Open link in… select how you want the link to open. If the recipient is viewing the email in a browser window, Current window will open the link in the same window and New window will open the link in a new window.
Click Save.
Add an image or video link to an email message
Note: Avoid pasting images or videos directly into the body of an email, as this can cause the template to exceed size limits.
To add an image or video in an email message, follow these steps:
Copy the URL of the image you want to add. You can only add images that are hosted online.
Under Email content, click where you want to insert the image.
Click the Insert/edit image
button.In the Insert/Edit Image popup, enter the following information:
Under Source, paste the URL of the image.
Under Alternative description, provide a description of the image. The description will be displayed instead of the image for recipients who prevent their emails from displaying images.
Under Width and Height, enter the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the image in pixels, if desired.
Set the Constrain proportions option to Locked
if you want the system to maintain the horizontal to vertical proportion when you resize the image.Set the Constrain proportions option to Unlocked
if you want to modify the dimensions freely.
Click Save.
To add a video link to the image:
Click the image and click the Insert/edit link
button.In the Insert/Edit Link popup, under URL, enter the URL of the video.
Click Save.
Click Save on the custom email template page.
Add an image or a video link to an email message using Imgur
To add an image or video hosted on Imgur to an email message, follow these steps:
Go to https://imgur.com/
Click New post.
In the popup, select the image you want to upload.
After the image is uploaded, right click the image and select Open image in new tab.
Copy the URL from the address bar.
Return to the email template and select the Insert/edit image
button.In the Insert/Edit Image popup, enter the following information:
Under Source, paste the URL.
Under Alternative description, enter a description that will appear if the image doesn’t load when the email is sent.
Under Width and Height, enter the dimensions you want for the image.
Set the Constrain proportions option to Locked
if you want the system to maintain the horizontal to vertical proportion when you resize the image.Set the Constrain proportions option to Unlocked
if you want to modify the dimensions freely.
Click Save.
To add a video link to the image:
Click the image and click the Insert/edit link
button.In the Insert/Edit Link popup, under URL, enter the URL of the video.
Click Save.
Click Save on the custom email template page.
Customize the source code of an email template
To customize the source code of an email template, follow these steps:
Click the Source code
button.Enter your custom HTML, CSS, or JavaScript code.
Click Save.
Note: If you want to personalize your email templates but aren’t familiar with HTML, CSS, or JavaScript code, you can use Mailchimp email templates with WellnessLiving.