jQuery || jQuery UI || Bootstrap
This is a prototype of a newsletter builder, allowing people with no coding experience to build html newsletters in their favourite internet browser, I had originally had this idea when I worked for Tourist Information Centres Ltd in which it would have been a module to the TIC Webshops V2 platform, but due to time constraints and other projects taking priority it never came to be. I have now started to work on it just to see if my vision was possible along with improving my learning of jQuery.
Since the idea of this was to make email newsletters it makes use of tables and in-line styles to offer better compatibly with various email clients, but the template section can be easily amended to offer different mark-up.
Possible implementations
Whilst originally I planned to use this as a way for our clients to create custom newsletters, in a way to improve the Webshop v2 newsletter feature which allowed for multiple products to be assigned, in which the product image will pulled through to the newsletter with optional sub text beneath the image, there were also a block for text, which allowed for html to be input but the majority of our clients didn’t know html. This would have allowed for them to create more eye catching newsletters.
Other implementations could be to allow for quick mock-ups to be completed in front of the client, in which the element’s could be changed for an responsive html5 mark-up. This will allow for the clients to quickly see how there site could look which could provide a better and quicker process for the initial mock-up stage.