Cerberus Responsive Email Patterns by TedGoas

A few simple, but solid patterns for responsive HTML email templates and newsletters. Even in Outlook and Gmail.

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Verdict 74/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 4.1 years ago

Self-host Cerberus Responsive Email Patterns on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

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GitHub stars
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699 forks

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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community
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security
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GitHub stars 5.1k github.com/TedGoas/Cerberus
GitHub forks 699 github.com/TedGoas/Cerberus

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Project age12.5 yearssince Nov 2013
Last commit1.8 years agoJul 16, 2024
Releases shipped12last: 4.1 years ago
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