Print & Campaign Design

Email Design

Design emails that arrive looking exactly the way you built them

12 lessons4 modules8h 45m durationbeginner level

Instructor: StretchLearn Faculty

About this course

Email is not the web. It renders in dozens of clients that each interpret your code differently, blocks your images by default, and inverts your colors in dark mode. This course teaches the constraints first, then the craft: nested table layouts that hold up in Outlook's Word engine, mobile-friendly responsive and hybrid patterns, a call-to-action hierarchy that earns the click, an image-to-text balance that survives blocked images and spam filters, dark-mode handling, and a testing workflow using Litmus or Email on Acid. You finish able to build, theme, and ship a tested promotional email.

Curriculum

Module 1: Why Email Is Not the Web3 lessons

The rendering landscape and why it breaksPreview40m
Table-based layout, the email grid🔒45m
Inline CSS and the rules that hold🔒45m

Module 2: Responsive Layouts for Every Screen3 lessons

Mobile-first reality and the viewport🔒40m
Media-query responsive design🔒45m
Hybrid and fluid layouts for graceful failure🔒45m

Module 3: Hierarchy, Calls to Action, and the Image Balance3 lessons

Visual hierarchy and the one-action rule🔒40m
Bulletproof buttons that survive image blocking🔒45m
Image-to-text balance and accessibility🔒45m

Module 4: Dark Mode and Cross-Client Testing3 lessons

How dark mode breaks an email🔒40m
Techniques to control dark-mode rendering🔒45m
The pre-send test pass🔒50m