Cool Tool: htmltest.email by Jay Oram

Time to share: Fellow email geek Jay Oram recently gave his handy htmltest.email tool a new look and feel!

What does it do? Something simple, straightforward and useful. Paste in the code for your HTML email (MJML works too) and you’ll see it render live, right there in the browser. When you’re ready, do a quick test send to see how it looks in a real inbox. You can send each test to up to five recipients, and you can save groups of test addresses so you don’t have to retype them every time.

The live preview has some nice extras. You can switch between desktop and mobile views, preview standard or forced dark mode, turn images off, or strip out embedded styles to see what happens when an email client ignores them. There’s even a set of color vision simulations so you can check your design for accessibility. And it's free!.

If you’re looking for a Putsmail replacement, or just want one more quick tool for checking your work before the big send, bookmark it.

And who’s Jay? Per his bio, he’s Head of Code and Solutions at ActionRocket, and “Basically he gets to be an emailgeek full time.” Check out his htmltest.email here, and say hi to Jay on LinkedIn. Be sure to thank him for sharing a cool tool!