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Danielle_Wong
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August 21, 2017
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Email Newsletter Template and Using Snippets

  • August 21, 2017
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I'm curious of anyone's experience using snippets in an email newsletter. Would you put the styling within snippet or would the styling be part of the template?

If you have implemented this, could you let me know the steps you took and any concerns with the idea of using snippets in a newsletter?

Thanks!

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Best answer by Josh_Hill13

What exactly do you want to do here? What is "styling" to you in this situation?


CSS?

Template design?

PSD?

Snippets are used for universal content that you might want to update periodically, such as a content banner in an email or page, or a footer for an email or a page. Using Segmentations+Dynamic Content can powerup Snippets too.

I've heard of examples of doing this in a newsletter where each News Section is a snippet that you update in the Snippet section and just send out the same Newsletter Email Asset every time, or a new one. Not sure I would do that, but possible. There are some reasons if you use Language dynamic content and there have been other examples on the forum and the Summit.

Better use of Snippets is scaling up mass changes.

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Josh_Hill13
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New Participant
August 22, 2017

What exactly do you want to do here? What is "styling" to you in this situation?


CSS?

Template design?

PSD?

Snippets are used for universal content that you might want to update periodically, such as a content banner in an email or page, or a footer for an email or a page. Using Segmentations+Dynamic Content can powerup Snippets too.

I've heard of examples of doing this in a newsletter where each News Section is a snippet that you update in the Snippet section and just send out the same Newsletter Email Asset every time, or a new one. Not sure I would do that, but possible. There are some reasons if you use Language dynamic content and there have been other examples on the forum and the Summit.

Better use of Snippets is scaling up mass changes.

Josh_Hill13
New Participant
August 22, 2017

Now, if you want to update CSS more often, you can use a Program or Folder Token to do this with a text token. Some examples exist here or with Jeff Shearer and Ed Unthank.