theinbox.company

Leave your designers to design; Leave your developers to develop; Leave your HTML emails to me;

Your teams should concentrate on what they do best, and let me focus on any HTML email templates that need to be built.

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Why use me and my services?

Put a face to the name: I'm Alan!

I've been working with HTML email templates for over 15 years, and have worked on templates that have been turned into hundreds of millions of emails. Having built many responsive email templates, I know the different quirks of the different mail clients, and can build templates that provide an enhanced experience for mail clients that support a given feature, and degrade nicely back to a base template.

With this knowledge I can offer a dedicated service to building HTML emails for you. This can free up your team to work on what they do best, rather than digging around to find out why something isn't working in an old version of Outlook, or the mind field that is Gmail app family!

No need to refresh your knowledge every few months for a new client email campaign!

How would I fit in with you and your team?

I can be flexible, depending on your needs. I can work in-house alongside you, like one of your own team members. Or, just as easily work remotely. I've worked remotely for the last 10 years without any problems.

What can I do for you?

Responsive layouts

Creating templates that will look great on any device, with a graceful fallback for devices that don't support responsive layouts.

Interactive features

Encourage customer interaction with email content, like a mini website. Let users pick content to view, add navigation or introduce countdown clocks.

Hand-coded templates

I code all my templates from scratch to meet the customer needs. If there's a requirement to use a framework, I'm happy to use it.

Optimised code assets

With supporting text below as a natural lead-in to additional content. Coding by hand means no unnecessary code is being included within the template. All image assets are optimised as much as possible for those marginal gains, helping to cut down bandwidth and improving end user experience when roaming on a mobile device.

Email platform ready

Creating custom templates that can be loaded into your ESP of choice.

Experienced with creating logic driven templates, using in-house mail sending systems.

Tested in popular mail clients

All templates created are built to meet the 10 most popular email clients as listed on http://emailclientmarketshare.com. As a rule, testing on the popular clients on Android and iOS, as well as testing web mail clients on Safari and Chrome, on both Windows and macOS operating systems.

Get in touch

If you're interested in me helping our with any HTML email template work. Call me on or email

I'm based in the New Forest. Travel to Southampton or Bournemouth is about 20 minutes away. With London Waterloo a 90 minute train journey.

Companies helped

I've worked on HTML email templates for some very large companies, with a customer base of millions. Due to me working with them indirectly, via a middleman, I'm not able to disclose them here. If you are interested in using my services, get in touch and I'll be able to give you a bit more information about the work done.