Creating your first email
If you have just created an Better account, you will see the screen below with a Demo Email, and you will have a Demo Template in the Templates section as well.
We will create a new Email based on the Demo Template:
The New Email form shows. Give the Email a name, and select the Demo Template. We can ignore the folder for now.
After clicking save, you will be taken to the new Email.
As we can see in the Preview, the email is empty, only containing a header and a footer (the Layout Base).
You can read more about the Email Editor, but in this guide we will jump straight into adding some content. Click the Components tab in the right pane.
A list of all the available Components (defined in the Template) will show. Drag and drop the Main Article component into the left pane, between the header and footer:
Now click anywhere on the Component in the Preview to select it (notice the blue outline border).
Change some of the values in the right pane and see the contents update live in the Preview.
You can go back to the Emails list (click Emails in top menu), and you will see that the small preview have updated.
From here, you can:
View the HTML code
Preview in Mobile View
Go to Email Editor
Clone the Email
Export the Email (if integrations are active)
Go to Email Settings and update the Name, Folder etc.
That's it! 👏
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