In this article you'll find best practices and recommendations for your email design. If you're having trouble with email design rendering, please email Support.
Email Size
- File size should be 75 KB or less. Delivra will not prevent you from designing (or uploading) a file larger than 75 KB. However, some email clients will clip an email message that is too large. For example, Gmail will clip messages at 102 KB.
- Recommended overall template width is 600px. We do not recommend exceeding 800px.
- Recommended overall template height is 1500px. We do not recommend exceeding 3000px. Some email clients will clip the message at a certain height, or you may see an image being cropped if your design includes an image that the email client determines is too tall. Note: Our drag-and-drop editor does not hard code file height.
Image Files & Sizing
- File size must not exceed 4MB. We recommend that you resize very large image files before upload.
- Stick to jpg, jpeg, gif, png file types - svg, tiff, bmp, and psd files are not supported.
- File names must not include spaces or special characters, other than dash or underscore.
- File name character limit is 100.
- Avoid using image maps, most email clients do not support them.
- Maximum image height & width is 800px (drag-and-drop editor).
Image Hosting & Media Library
- Use folders to help organize media files. You can setup organization directly in the Media Library before any files are ever uploaded.
- If images are not uploaded to a folder initially, they cannot be moved after upload (it will break the hosted file path).
- Mass upload image files that will be used commonly like banners, logos, etc. in the Media library directly to make organization easier.
Known Outlook Rendering Issues
- Outlook is finicky when it comes to rendering background images. We suggest also applying a background color in the event that the background image does not display, or it does not repeat, when viewed in Outlook email clients.
- All buttons in your design will appear square even if you applied a curved radius. This applies to the button type of content in the drag-and-drop editor.
- Also, only the button text will be clickable, not the entire button area.
- If you have strict brand guidelines for buttons, we recommend that you use images that look like buttons.
- Text alignment should be set in the text editor. Using the cell style options to center, or right align will be ignored in Outlook.
- Outlook will cap the thickness of borders and display them at a max of 10px.
- Line spacing set in cell style will be ignored in Outlook.
- Image alt tags/tool tips will not display in Outlook. Outlook forces the display of the URL for security reasons.
Cell Groups
- Cell groups can help organize your design.
- Cell groups have settings specifically for mobile behavior (i.e. cell stacking).
- Image files used side-by-side in a cell group should be resized to the same dimensions before uploading them to the system.
Text Blocks
- Break up long blocks of text that contain varying text formatting into separate cells. This will lessen potential for format issues in the drag-and-drop text editor.
Mobile
- Use the mobile preview tool provided in the drag-and-drop editor.
- At a minimum, we recommend testing all campaigns to email addresses that can be checked on mobile devices.
- Consider using our email rendering tool for email template design.
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