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These are incredible. Thanks. Elaboration: You can buy email templates on ThemeForest for ~$2 and they'll be prettier but it is very, very rare that they are

by patio11 12y ago

These are incredible. Thanks. Elaboration: You can buy email templates on ThemeForest for ~$2 and they'll be prettier but it is very, very rare that they are actually as thoroughly tested as these are. Source: The guy who deals with bug reports like "It's unreadable on [insert a device that neither the designer nor the email sender owned]" way more often than he'd like to. Fun story, which I'm telling you because it is a fun story and not because I want to scare you off using Themeforest designs: I once bought, and promptly shipped, a transactional email template. It happened to include a reproducible remote crash against at least three major versions of Outlook. (After finding this out the hard way, I reported it to Microsoft's security, which looked into it for a few months before deciding "That sucks but it doesn't look like remote code execution is actually exploitable so phew dodged a bullet there, didn't we.")

bluetidepro 12y ago
> "You can buy email templates on ThemeForest for ~$2 and they'll be prettier but it is very, very rare that they are actually as thoroughly tested as these are." This is an amazing resource, but I don't want you to over generalize the templates at Themeforest. All the templates on that site clearly say what they have been tested in, and what clients they work in. (screenshot of the product detail sidebar: http://bluetide.pro/BU4q/1KDfhjBF http://bluetide.pro/BU4q/1KDfhjBF). I've never ever found that info to be wrong when it says they work in the said applications. I think Themeforest does a great job with their vetting process to make sure the templates on the site are almost 100% accurate in the info. (It may be worth reporting to Themeforest that wasn't the case on a template if you have been burned before.)
- pyre 12y ago
  One thing that it's missing is which version of (e.g.) Outlook it's been tested in.
ssiddharth 12y ago
Hey there, Patrick! I work at ThemeForest/Envato and I'm happy to look into the issues here. Could you email me the link to the item in question? sid at envato dot com. Thanks!

by patio11 12y ago

bluetidepro 12y ago

> "You can buy email templates on ThemeForest for ~$2 and they'll be prettier but it is very, very rare that they are actually as thoroughly tested as these are." This is an amazing resource, but I don't want you to over generalize the templates at Themeforest. All the templates on that site clearly say what they have been tested in, and what clients they work in. (screenshot of the product detail sidebar: http://bluetide.pro/BU4q/1KDfhjBF http://bluetide.pro/BU4q/1KDfhjBF). I've never ever found that info to be wrong when it says they work in the said applications. I think Themeforest does a great job with their vetting process to make sure the templates on the site are almost 100% accurate in the info. (It may be worth reporting to Themeforest that wasn't the case on a template if you have been burned before.)

pyre 12y ago
One thing that it's missing is which version of (e.g.) Outlook it's been tested in.

ssiddharth 12y ago

Hey there, Patrick! I work at ThemeForest/Envato and I'm happy to look into the issues here. Could you email me the link to the item in question? sid at envato dot com. Thanks!