3 Confirmation Message Design Examples

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Here are examples of designs created using techniques laid out in the blog post Styling Your Confirmation Messages and Broadcast Emails. RSVPMaker now provides the flexibility to style confirmation messages for different events differently.

White on Black

Here’s the black background confirmation message for a pirate party. This design allows me to specify styling on the RSVP button (Update RSVP in the case of a confirmation message) differently from the one used elsewhere on my website.

white on black email confirmation
Confirmation with a black background and white-on-black RSVP Button

White on Black Email Template

Using Gutenberg Columns in the Template

One technique for creating an template layout is to rough out the design in the WordPress editor, then copy the resulting HTML and elements such as shortcodes and dynamic Gutenberg blocks into the body of an email template.

Here, I have created a 2-column layout in the editor and a centered image to appear beneath the columns. The left column contains the [rsvpmaker_email_content] shortcode for dynamically generated content such as confirmation messages. The right column contains a heading block, followed by the latest-posts block to display the latest blog posts (where the idea is to encourage the person who has registered for an event to explore other website content).

Note: I had to use several hacks to make the two columns display acceptably on a mobile email client:

.wp-block-column {max-width: 50%}
.rightmain {padding: 10px;background-color:  #191D6C; color: #EEEEEE; height: 95%; }
.rightmain a {color:#FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -30px;}

See the explanation of columns and CSS inlining.

Using Gutenberg columns to define a sidebar with latest posts.

Adapted from a MailChimp Sample

You can use a sample template provided by MailChimp, or created using MailChimp’s design tools, as the basis for a template you can use within the RSVPMaker mailer tool — including messages RSVPMaker handles itself, such as confirmation messages, as well as messages to be submitted to MailChimp via their API.

For this example, I started with a MailChimp sample design for a fictional gallery promoting a featured exhibit. I then turned it into an RSVPMaker confirmation email template suitable for being used in conjunction with a gallery talk event.

Gallery talk template, based on a MailChimp sample design

MailChimp uses nested tables for its basic layouts, then adds CSS on top tagged to different table cells.

The process of adapting the MailChimp template to work with RSVPMaker follows this pattern:

Exporting HTML from MailChimp
  • Use the Export as HTML option in MailChimp to get the code for one of the templates in your account that you want to use.
  • Place the [rsvpmaker_email_content] shortcode in the table cell where dynamically generated content such as your confirmation message should appear.
  • Add CSS as necessary to make your content look good in the template.
  • Alter MailChimp’s CSS as necessary to allow you to achieve the effects you want. I had to remove some of the default MailChimp code for link styling to get the RSVP button to display properly.

Gallery Event Template

Here is the original MailChimp sample design I started with:

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