Tin can my Pardot email be responsive? Why doesn't my groundwork prototype announced in Outlook? Tin Pardot emails be elevate & drop? I get asked these questions a lot from Pardot users and run into them posted oftentimes in the Trailblazer Community. Let'southward dive into these questions as well as other mutual Pardot email template questions.

Does Pardot allow responsive email blueprint?

Yes, Pardot emails can exist responsive, but you have to set up your template with the correct code. This means that you have to accept media queries within your email or employ one of the scalable or fluid methods.

If you're new to e-mail development or responsive electronic mail development, here are some resources to get started.

  • How to Code a Responsive E-mail From Scratch
  • Creating a Simple Responsive HTML Email
  • Responsive Email Patterns: A collection of patterns & modules for responsive emails

How practise I create editable sections that can be dupliated, deleted and reordered?

By default all sections of your email template are editable. This isn't ideal for a couple of reasons:

  1. Information technology allows the users of the template to modify everything, including the logo, footer, copyright, etc.
  2. Information technology tin cause part of the HTML to exist stripped out or interruption inside the email editor

With that in heed, I always try to "lock downward" elements that don't need to be modified.

An editable section can be created by adding this tag to your DIV, TD, Tabular array or TR elements.

A section that can be duplicated, removed or reordered can be created by adding this tag to your DIV, TD, TR, or TABLE elements.

How practise I brand my background image appear in Outlook?

The standard CSS for background images does non piece of work in some email clients including Outlook 2000 – 2003, Outlook 2007 – 2016 and others listed hither. Luckily there's a workaround to get your background images working in all email clients by using this Bulletproof Groundwork Prototype Generator.

How practice I create a push?

Use my Bulletproof Pardot Button Generator to create cute buttons for your Pardot emails, without VML. Just select your button colors, fonts, font sizes, padding, etc and copy and paste the generated HTML into your Pardot electronic mail or Pardot electronic mail template.

How do I use a custom font inside my email?

The best fashion is to select a custom font from the Google Font Library. Once you have selected your fonts, select the @import method, and copy and paste the code provided into your email template.

Recommended resources

  • The Ultimate Guide to Web Fonts
  • All Yous Demand to Know About Spider web Fonts in Electronic mail
  • Employ Custom Fonts in Pardot
  • Fonts existence tracked as e-mail clicks

Can my Pardot email template be "drag & drop"

No, Pardot doesn't currently have this functionality. There's an idea in the Success Community for information technology, get vote!

In the meantime, if yous require that functionality, bank check out BEE Free. A elevate & drop email cosmos tool. No signup required.

Is at that place a way to customize the text inside the preview on mobile or Gmail?

Yes! This is called a email preheader and tin be added to your Pardot template by placing this HTML to right after the opening Trunk tag.

Can I embed a video inside a Pardot electronic mail?

Embedding videos within an e-mail, in full general, isn't widely supported. If you're feeling ambitious yous tin check out this article from E-mail on Acrid, which dives into the different email clients that will back up it and a fallback solution for those that do non.

Otherwise, I recommend taking a screenshot of your video frame, overlaying a play button and making the whole image clickable, which directs to the landing page containing the video.

Why is the patently-text version of my e-mail not formatted correctly?

Sometimes when you click the sync from HTML push the plain-text version populates with a agglomeration of spacing and indentation. I recommend using this HTML to text converter to generate a clean, formatted version of your apparently-text email.

What Pardot email questions do you have?

Send them to me via email, send me a tweet @jennamolby, or leave a comment.