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Drag & Drop Editor [New design] - Part 1: Editor Overview

The [New design] Drag & Drop Editor makes it easy to design professional-looking emails. It provides more options to customize your email and also ensures that your email looks perfect on any email client and device.

In this article, we will walk you through the editor interface and explain the key sections.

We've divided the [New design] Drag & Drop Editor articles into the following parts:

To start with, take a look at our detailed video on how to use the Drag & Drop Editor (New) 🚀: 

⬅️ Left navigation panel

The left navigation panel has predefined blocks such as text, image along with your saved blocks, and the default template settings. This part is divided into 3 tabs: Content, My Content, and Design

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🗄 Content 💾 My content ⚙️ Design

Begin your email design by dragging and dropping the layouts and content blocks into the canvas. To learn more, check our dedicated article Style vs content blocks.

⬆️ Top navigation bar

In the top navigation bar, you will find the following options:

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🏷 Campaign name

The name you gave to your campaign at the beginning of the campaign creation flow.

↩️ Undo/Redo changes

You can undo (⌘ or Ctrl + Z) or redo (⇧ + ⌘ or Ctrl + Z) changes while updating your design.

⌚️ Campaign last saved status

On the top left, you will see the last saved status of your campaign. The saved time is updated when the campaign is auto-saved while you are updating the design or when you manually save the campaign from Actions > Save. Click on the last saved status date to access the Version History and view backups of your email campaign and restore a version if needed.

💻 Desktop and mobile view editing

  • 🖥 The Desktop view is displayed by default. Edit your campaign as you would like it to appear on desktops.
  • 📱Switch to mobile view and edit your campaign as you would like it to appear on mobile devices. To learn more, check our dedicated article Edit emails in mobile view.

👆 Actions

Version history

Automatic and manual backups of your campaign are available here and you can also see the preview of all the versions. You can load a previous version of your campaign by selecting the version and then clicking on Restore. You can continue editing the campaign once the selected version is loaded.

Preview

You are redirected to the Preview & Test function where you can validate the personalizations in your email by using one of your contacts or/and dynamic transactional parameters and see how your email will look in different email clients.

Send test email

You are redirected to the Preview & Test function where you can send test emails to one or more of your contacts. You can also review your campaign and make changes until everything looks the way you want.

Brand library

Save time when creating your emails by saving your brand's assets in the Brand Library. Once set up, every new templateyou select will inherit your brand properties, such as logo, colors, fonts, and social media links. To learn more, check our dedicated article Automatically design your emails with your brand's assets using the Brand Library.

Developer Mode
❗️ Important
This option is only available if you contact the support team to enable the Developer Mode in the [New design] Drag & Drop Editor.

Use this function to code your templates. To learn more, check our dedicated article Developer Mode function.

Save

Click Save to save your changes and keep working on the design.

To learn more on how to use the options available in Actions, see Restore, preview, test, and save campaign design.

✅ Save & quit

Save your campaign and take you back to the campaign design step.

⏩ What's next?

🤔 Have a question?

If you have a question, feel free to contact our support team by creating a ticket from your account. If you don't have an account yet, you can contact us here.