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It is strongly recommended to start creating an Email template with a Wizard, because
designing HTML email that displays properly on a variety of devices and screen sizes is
challenging. Building an email is not like building for the web. While web browsers use
standards (to a significant extent), many email clients do not. This means that email clients can,
and will, interpret the same HTML and (inline) CSS in totally different ways.
With an Email Template Wizard you can easily create an Email template that outputs emails
that look good on virtually any email client, device and screen size.
After creating an Email template, the other contexts can be added to it, as well as other sections
(see "Contexts" on page 221 and "Email templates" on page 300).
To create an Email template with a Template Wizard:
1. l
In the Welcome screen that appears after startup, choose Browse Template
Wizards.
Scroll down until you see the Email Template Wizards. There are three types of
Email Template Wizards:
l Basic Email templates
l Banded Email templates
l Slate: Responsive Email templates by Litmus.
l
Alternatively, on the File menu, click New, expand the Template folder, and then
expand the Basic Email templates folder, the Banded Email templates folder, or
the Slate: Responsive Email Templates by Litmus folder.
See "Email Template Wizards" on the facing page for information about the various types
of Template Wizards.
2.
Select a template and click Next. If you don't know what template to choose, see below;
the characteristics of each kind of template are described further down in this topic.
3. Make adjustments to the initial settings (the options for each type of template are listed
below). Click Next to go to the next settings page if there is one.
4.
Click Finish to create the template.
The Wizard creates:
l An Email context with one section in it. The section contains dummy text and one or more
selectors for variable data, for example: "Hello @first@". You will want to replace those
by the names of fields in your data. See "Variable Data" on page 336.
The Invoice email template also contains a Dynamic Table; see "Dynamic table" on page
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