Introduction to Email Design Tool

Overview

This section will help you navigate the design of your email. With three main components—Settings, Rows, and Content Blocks—you have a powerful toolkit for crafting designs that are both cohesive and flexible.

Key Components

Stage: Drag and drop content blocks and rows here for initial layout.

Sidebar: Fine-tune your design elements like colors, fonts, and more.

User Tips

• An icon between the Stage and Sidebar lets you minimize the Sidebar, giving you more space to work.
• To begin your design, select an element from the Sidebar.
  • Design Components: Settings, Rows, and Content Blocks

Settings

The Settings tab is your starting point for any design, allowing you to establish global design elements that both Rows and Content Blocks will inherit.

Here, you can manage:

• Content area width and alignment
• Background and text colors
• Default font and link colors
• Optional settings like language and favicon (relevant for Pages)

These settings bring cohesion to your design, ensuring elements like font families are consistent throughout, unless overridden by custom settings in Rows or Content Blocks.

Rows: Your Structural Backbone

Rows serve as the foundational layout elements, defining the horizontal arrangement of sections within your design.

Features include:

• Up to six columns for emails and twelve for pages, accommodating various content elements side by side.
• Ability to choose different column configurations.
• Customizable features like background color, border, and mobile behavior for each row or specific columns within a row.
• "+Add new" button to add new columns and a separator icon for resizing existing columns.
• Individual column settings like background color, padding, and border, accessible by clicking on the column in the Sidebar (highlighted in purple for easier identification).

Content Blocks: Detailing Your Design

Content Blocks are your go-to for adding specific elements to your design.

Features include:

• Auto-adjustment to the column width when dragged into a row.
• A range of options like Text-Based (Title, Paragraph, List), Media (Image, Video, GIF), Interactive (Button, Social Media Icons), and Layout Tools (Divider, Spacer, Menu).
• Advanced Elements like HTML and Sticker are also available.
• Individual settings for each block, like custom padding and visibility, accessible via a property panel in the Sidebar once the block is selected.

Row vs. Content Block Selection

Overview

Knowing how to select rows or individual content blocks effectively is crucial when using the builder. This guide will walk you through the steps and visual cues involved in making precise selections, empowering you to edit your design efficiently.

Selecting Content Blocks

• Mouseover Icon:
  • Hover your mouse over a content block.
  • An icon appears, enabling you to drag the block.
• Upon Selection:
  • Click the block to select it.
  • Three icons show up on the stage for removing, cloning, or commenting on the block.

• Sidebar Properties:
• Once a block is selected, the sidebar on the right displays properties specific to that content block for editing.

Selecting Rows

• Mouseover Area:
  • Hover over an empty space in a row.
  • The row gets highlighted, and an icon shows up for dragging.
• Upon Selection:
  • Click the row to select it.
  • Four icons appear for commenting, saving, removing, or cloning the row and its content.

• Sidebar Properties:
• Once a row is selected, the sidebar will show properties specific to that row for editing.

Note

• Selecting a row will automatically deselect any previously selected content block.
• A single row may contain multiple columns, all of which will be selected when you choose the row.