I work at a small software company called, L1 Technology, the IT/Development side of the larger business, Level One. They’re a central leasing office for apartment communities all over the country. Part of my job is designing email templates that are used to respond to prospective residents. Below are some of my designs. Most are based heavily on the look of their property website because *as of yet* we have nothing in place to really get a grasp of what they’re wanting. So 9 times out of 10 I just try to replicate their website as best I can to make it work for us.

I love this aspect of my job. I’ve learned so much over the last year or so about design, coding and html. Working with email templates is an interesting thing. You can’t really use stylesheets or link to a css file. In order for it to render correctly in various browsers and email clients you have to code it inline, which is archaic technology… very 90′s-ish if you will. Took awhile to figure that out and still learning how to code for certain clients like Gmail that like to replace your styles with their own.

You’ll notice that the same elements are present in almost every template… this is a requirement on our end to generate reply traffic from prospective residents and provide them with key links to availability and such. Just thought I’d drop a few of the ones I’ve done on here to add a little more to the “portfolio” section.