Caterbook comes with a collection of "out-the-box", vanilla templates covering many common use cases.
There are a number of articles around creating your email content, by using "placeholders" that represent common elements in a booking. For example, {guestForename} would always substitute the placeholder for the guest's own forename from a particular booking when the email is sent.
It's quite easy to style the email templates so they are more than just black text on white background but remember, every email client (Outlook, Gmail, Thunderbird) will render the content differently, and some of your styling may not be applied to all recipients consistently.
Bold Text.
As with Microsoft Word, click and drag with your mouse to highlight the text you want to make bold, then click Format / Bold.
Once that's done, we get something that looks like this:
Adding a background colour.
From the View menu, click Source code.
Insert a carriage return to create a new blank line at the very top of the content here, and copy & paste in the following code :
<div style="background-color: #807900; padding: 20px; border-radius: 20px;">
then, after the last line of content, again create another new line and this time add in
</div>
This will create a container for your content. The number #807900 represents the background colour I have picked for this demonstration, but you can get a starting point for your own choice of background colour by clicking the link here.
The padding attribute creates some space between the top, left, bottom and right edges. Border radius, where supported, gives rounded corners.
Adding an image.
We can add a header image by firstly creating some space at the top of our content, this time in the editor window. Again use a carriage return, and ensure your cursor stays at the very top left.
Now click Insert / Image.
This will enable us to embed an image or graphic from a folder on your website.
Adding colour to the text.
If we click and drag to select all the text content
and then click Format / Text color :
We end up with something a world away from where we started.
Tip. Do not create your email content in Word, instead always use a plain text editor like Notepad for windows. Pasting in content from Word drags with it a lot of in-line styling that will override what we are setting here.
Remember this is for Email templates, and NOT SMS message templates.