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Tulipop MailChimp Template Design (Curious Chimp)

with Mobile Friendly Integration

Your template has been delivered!

If you granted our agency keychain access, you’ll find your new custom MailChimp template already uploaded to your account. Please remember to download your template files below for safe keeping. And, if you haven’t already, please take some time to review our online template user guide to learn more about working with your new template.

Project Status

Phase V, Implementation
HOW WE WORK

Coming Up

You can expect to receive your template on the

31st

of July

Helpful Info and Resources

Email Client CSS Support

What is CSS?

CSS (cascading style sheet) is the language structure that ties our templates into the MailChimp editor and essentially controls the styling of your template and campaigns (font family, size, color, line height, weight, etc.)

What is it important to know?

That CSS, while widely supported, isn’t supported in ALL email environments and among those that do support it support isn’t equal.

What do we mean by unequal CSS support?

While some email environments support most or all CSS some environments only support certain features and not others. For example background imagery or rounded corners.

How do I know which elements are and aren’t supported?

We HIGHLY recommend that you take some time to review “The Ultimate Guide to CSS” which outlines the most popular email environments and the CSS each does and does not support.

The Ultimate Guide to CSS

How do I ensure my template looks great even in those clients that don’t support CSS?

By including bullet-proof integration in your template package. If you did not include bullet-proof integration at the time of purchase but wish to do so now please contact us immediately to upgrade your project.

Of course, there are some downsides to bullet-proof integration so you’ll want to review our overview and pros and cons here,

Bulletproof MailChimp Templates

Merge Tags

Customize Your Campaigns

Merge tags allow you to dynamically add content to your email. They may look intimidating, but they’re easy to figure out. Include a merge tag in a campaign, and MailChimp handles the rest. Include something as simple as a subscriber’s first name, add social links, or, if you’re feeling gutsy, create an entire campaign using nothing but merge tags.

Your List’s Merge Tags

The fields that you set up in your list (email, address, name, etc.) will not only become the fields in your list and signup form, but will also have a corresponding Merge Tag.

For example, if you added a “First Name” field in your list (*|FNAME|*) then using the merge tag *|FNAME|* in your campaign content will automatically populate the recipient’s first name.

Other Available Merge Tags

MailChimp has a ton of great merge tags to help you personalize and customize your campaigns and list forms. Check out these resources

MERGE TAG CHEATSHEET

Use MailChimp’s merge tag cheat sheet as a quick reference for each merge tag available in MailChimp.

All the Merge Tags Cheat Sheet

GETTING STARTED WITH MERGE TAGS

For more details on how to use merge tags in MailChimp, take a look at MailChimp’s Getting Started with Merge Tags article,

Getting Started with Merge Tags

The Low Down On Variant Selectors

The Low Down On Variant Selectors

If you are familiar with MailChimp or had a template designed and/or coded by our agency previously chances are you’ve already encountered variant selectors. Variant selectors allow you to switch between any number of different content structures or layouts (blocks of HTML) within your template allowing you to create amazingly flexible campaigns utilizing only the content blocks you need and in any order you like. Fancy right?

There are no limits to the number of variants or content blocks your template can contain and you can mix and match them when drafting your campaign to achieve the exact layout you’re looking for. Every time. But if you’re new to MailChimp and you’ve never worked with variant selectors it can be a bit tricky at first so here are a few tips on getting started.

Template User Guide

Our complete template user guide can now be accessed online! Complete with full size screen captures and step by step instructions for getting started with your new MailChimp template.

Template User Guide

You’ll also find helpful hints and tips as well as things to avoid for best results when creating your campaigns.

Your Files

Upload Your Design Collateral

and other project materials below.

Access Your Files Via Drive

Your Template Layout

Desktop

Below is the initial concept design for your template along with an additional overlay file that maps out the functionality of your template framework including hideable and repeatable content blocks as well as merge tag locations.

The preheader, header and footer areas are static however the variant content blocks in between (numbered in the overlay file) can be added in any order, as many times as needed, (or not at all) allowing you unlimited flexibility when creating campaigns.

Click the image below to provide feedback, or approval.

Your Template Files

  • .txt

    An HTML version of your template with MailChimp hosted imagery in a text format.

  • .html

    An HTML version of your template with MailChimp hosted imagery.

  • .zip

    A zipped archive of your (unhosted) template files including HTML and imagery files.

What should I do with these files?

You’ll want to download your template files and keep them in a secure, but easy to access, location. In the event you need to restore your MailChimp template in the future you’ll need these files in order to do so.