- What's up, everybody, welcome back to the channel.
My name's Larry Snow and in today's video,
we're going to be taking a look in the new
and improved Mailchimp Email Builder,
and it's coming up next.
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So the new email builder
that Mailchimp is slowly rolling out is in beta format.
So you can opt in at this point or you can opt out
it's up to you.
So you can go in and try it,
mess around with it and then come back
and then go back to the Classic Builder.
So let's go take a look at the beta version
of the Mailchimp Email Builder.
I've gotten started here with a campaign draft
an email campaign draft.
To view the beta version of the email builder
you go down here and you go to your content.
I'm going to skip all this part
because it's not relevant to what we're showing here today.
Get on to your content, you click on design email,
and you have a choice.
Now some of you might already selected Classic Builder
and some of you might already selected New Builder.
So what we're going to do is click on New Builder.
Also note that some of the features that you have in Classic
are not available in the beta.
Now in the beta version you see right here, it says,
go back to the Classic Builders,
so you have that option right there.
Then down below here you have templates,
that you can pick the ones
that Mailchimp has brought in already.
So we have simple, it looks like a photo one,
natural, minimal, bold.
So we're going to keep with the basic here.
So if you're coming from the Classic Builder
and you're looking at this for the first time,
you're like, what the heck am I doing?
There's no blocks, there's no nothing.
How do I edit this stuff?
Well, you can edit the existing blocks that are here.
So if you click on the view this email in your browser,
you have the option to
change it from a paragraph to a heading.
You have the bold, italics,
all this stuff that you normally would
in a word processing environment, for instance.
You can also add a new merge tags right here as well.
So that's for the paragraph
and you can also change your font
and your type size over here on the left side.
Logo, you can drag and make this bigger or smaller
if you want.
To replace it over on the left side,
click replace takes you to your content studio,
you select your logo, you click insert,
and then you can reduce it down,
something like that.
And again, we have another paragraph,
another paragraph and a photo.
So if we click on the photo on the left-hand side,
it'll give you the information to change the alignment
of what you want to link it to,
replace the image, all that good stuff.
So still we're not seeing any blocks yet,
so we can edit this stuff
that's already existing in that template,
but there's nothing here that suggests
where the heck are the blocks.
To get the blocks that we're all fond of
is to click the plus button in any of these areas.
So in each one of these current blocks here,
we have a plus button.
So let's go up the top and click on plus,
here are the current blocks available in the beta.
Paragraph, image, button, divider, space, social and video.
So we can go to the video tab
we can put in the source, so let's go back.
A couple of other options that you have to point out.
If I click on the white space here,
you have two options to change the color,
one's called canvas, one's called backdrop.
And they're both highlighted when you hover over them,
which section is which,
and you can choose what the colors are already here,
or you can create your own.
So let's click a lovely gray, let's go back
and in the backdrop, we'll do a lovely blue
just to see the difference.
Also on the top here next to the preview button,
they also have a undo and redo button
and it automatically saves your changes.
Now, the other thing that the Classic Builder had,
and I'm not sure if they're going to be bringing it in
to this new version,
is the ability to have overall settings for your email,
over on the Classic settings at the very top,
you would have settings
and that would give you the header, the body, the footer,
like you could change all of that, you could change the font
and it would change the entire email completely.
It wouldn't just change one little thing.
Well, here there is no setting like that.
I'm not sure if they'll bring over that
overall email setting feature, for now you can still edit,
but it's on a block by block basis.
So for instance,
if you wanted to click in this heading here,
so heading one, but we can change the type size here
by just dragging it up to make it bigger
or dragging it down.
You can change the font here,
changed the text colors, links, and the block background.
So let's make it a lovely blue, there you go.
So just keep that in mind
that there is no overall settings as of yet.
They do have the preview option here,
and you can do the enabled merge tag info
for your recipient and all that stuff.
You also have the mobile version here.
So overall, I think it's off to a good start.
It'd be nice to have those other features
and hopefully there'll be adding them back in.
If you're a Mailchimp user, then you know,
that Mailchimp is going through a lot of changes recently
and this is just one more thing.
I for one, I'm happy to see this change again.
I thought that that whole layout was a little cumbersome.
This is a new modern interface if you will.
And yeah, it's going to take some getting used to.
We'll have the opportunity to keep the Classical Builder
for the foreseeable future, so that's always a good thing.
So if you're a Mailchimp user posted in the comments below,
if you've tried the new email builder,
it'd be interesting to hear your thoughts on it.
I mean, and if you think about it,
this is the way a lot of websites are doing
the editor these days.
I think Medium and LinkedIn articles.
If you click inside a box area or paragraph,
you get these pop-up options like that.
And in WordPress with the Gutenberg editor now
you have these little plus buttons.
So there is some familiarity with it for me,
but I'm interested to hear what you think.
And hopefully there'll be adding more features soon
so we can check them out when they come in.
Thanks so much for watching the video.
I appreciate it,
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