Email Template Developer — Responsive HTML Newsletter Build

A UK-based ecommerce company is looking for a developer to build a set of reusable, responsive HTML email templates for our regular newsletter and campaign sends.

We currently rebuild each email from scratch, which is slow and produces inconsistent results across inboxes. We want a small library of modular, well-coded templates we can reuse and populate ourselves, that render reliably everywhere from Apple Mail to Outlook.

The work covers three master templates: a standard newsletter with stackable content blocks, a single-product promotional layout, and a plain transactional style for order and service messages. Each should be built from interchangeable modules — hero, text block, two-column, product row, button, footer — so our marketing team can assemble new emails by rearranging sections without writing code.

Requirements for the build: bulletproof buttons, web-safe fallbacks for custom fonts, retina-ready images with correct fallbacks, dark mode handling, and full responsiveness down to narrow mobile widths. Everything must degrade gracefully in Outlook's rendering engine, which is the usual sticking point and where we will be looking most closely at your work. Inline CSS as required by email clients, with clear comments so our team can edit safely.

Deliverables are the three master templates plus the module set, tested across the major desktop, mobile and webmail clients, with a short written record of which clients were tested and any known limitations. We will provide brand guidelines, fonts, imagery and example content. Copy and campaign setup are handled in-house; this is a build-only brief.

To be considered, please share email templates you have personally coded, ideally with a link to a rendering test or live example, tell us how you approach Outlook rendering specifically, and confirm your availability. Applications without examples of email development will not be shortlisted.