Guide to drag-and-drop
Create an on-brand email with our drag-and-drop Visual Editor.
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Guide to starting an email design system
This guide covers the essentials: breaking down designs into components, planning styling options, setting up base components, and managing multiple brands. Learn how to ensure design consistency, simplify updates, and optimize email campaigns.
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Guide to color scheme in email
Mark Robbins has documented out key need to knows when working with color schemes in email — specifically, light mode and dark mode.
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Guide to troubleshooting Gmail clipping
Eliminate the risk of Gmail clipping with Parcel using Transformers to minify your code, clean up your CSS, or catch areas of code bloat.
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Guide to understanding email width
Explore the intricacies of email width, from screen resolution to client padding so that you can understand how user settings impact viewing and discover best practices for optimal email design.
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Guide to reviewing email text-versions
Plain-text versions of emails are important fallbacks for when HTML can't be displayed. It's important to review the automatically generated text version from your ESP and customize it to be simple and easy to consume. Use Parcel to generate and edit text-versions of your emails easily.
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Guide to reviewing ESP code changes
Learn how ESPs may change your email templates at send time and how to review these changes using your Parcel import address and version control. Discover what changes your ESP has made to your email file and how to ensure your emails pass accessibility checks after sending.
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Guide to testing emails with a screen reader
Learn how to test emails with a screen reader and develop a better understanding of the experience some of your subscribers may have. This article provides a step-by-step guide to using a screen reader, testing your emails, and incorporating screen reader testing into your regular workflow.
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Guide to stakeholder approval
In this guide, we review how creators can expedite getting stakeholder approval with great organization and Parcel features!
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Guide to images in email
Looking to improve the visual impact of your email marketing campaigns? In this guide, we review image formats that can be used in email marketing. From JPEG and PNG to GIF and SVG, we explore the benefits and drawbacks of each format, as well as best practices for optimizing image sizes and ensuring compatibility across different email clients.
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Guide to dark mode
Learn how to code and optimize emails for dark mode and improve the user experience of your email marketing campaigns. Discover key techniques and tips to ensure your emails look great in dark mode, and reach a wider audience on various devices.
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Guide to relative units
This guide provides a primer to using relative units in emails which helps create a responsive design that adapts to different devices, screen sizes, and user preferences.
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Guide to scraping the web
Emails that scrape data from the web are emails from the future. Save time on copying and pasting, by fetching existing information from an already-live website!
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Guide to RSS feeds
Create an email that updates content automatically, by fetching an RSS feed! In this example we'll build an email featuring two articles pulled in from a blog.
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Guide to fetching data
Fetch external data into an email template easily. Perfect for localizing email copy across multiple languages or pulling in information such as product list.
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Guide for designers
Parcel isn't exclusive to email developers. It's robust features such as Inbox Previews, multi-device previewing, and split window editing allow Email Designers to also scale their email campaign creation.
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Guide for developers
Parcel is built for email developers specifically. Read our guide which outlines how developers can create, validate, and QA their emails at scale with Parcel.
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Guide for marketers
Parcel isn't just built for developers. Email and lifecycle marketers alike can use Parcel to launch their email campaigns at scale using key features such as Inbox Previews, Inspect and Focus mode, and review the performance of them with Analytics.
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Guide to importing emails
There are over 7 ways to import emails into Parcel. Here's your guide to all of them.
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Guide to components
How to create a component in Parcel with various use cases including email footers, scraping web pages, and buttons.
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Guide to snippets
How to create a snippet in Parcel with various use cases including buttons, columns, and ghost tables.