Cerberus Responsive Email Patterns by TedGoas
A few simple, but solid patterns for responsive HTML email templates and newsletters. Even in Outlook and Gmail.
About Cerberus Responsive Email Patterns
From the project's README at github.com/TedGoas/Cerberus. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.
Coding regular emails is hard enough by itself. Making them responsive and accessible shouldn’t add to the headache. A few simple, but solid patterns are all that’s needed to optimize emails for small screens and assistive technologies.
It’s just a few responsive email patterns that go a long way. The code blocks are compartmentalized so that they may be used, combined, and nested to build an email.
Each template is annotated and has good support among popular email clients. Learn More and See Examples ## Contents - Good for simple layouts such as transactional and single column emails. Good for more complicated, shape-shifting email layouts that work on some mobile clients. - This template uses a hybrid approach to reconfigure the layout for different screen sizes for email clients regardless of media query support. License
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentati
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Adoption signals
Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.
| Signal | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 5.1k | github.com/TedGoas/Cerberus |
| GitHub forks | 699 | github.com/TedGoas/Cerberus |
Release & maintenance
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| Project age | 12.5 years | since Nov 2013 |
| Last commit | 1.8 years ago | Jul 16, 2024 |
| Releases shipped | 12 | last: 4.1 years ago |
| Funding links | 1 | declared by maintainers |
Self-hosting cost across providers
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| Provider | Plan | Specs | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hetzner | CAX11 | 2c · 4GB · 40GB | $4.13 USD | Deploy → |
| vultr | VC2 | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5 USD | Deploy → |
| linode | Nanode 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5.12 USD | Deploy → |
| digitalocean | Basic Regular 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $6 USD | Deploy → |
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