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When Pro was released I found it incredibly annoying that no upgrade pricing was offered for owners of Mail Designer. A couple of years down the track, most of the anomalies were addressed and the software was working well for me. I bought Mail Designer when it was first released and though frustrating at first, stuck with it and worked around the bugs, limitations and quirks. Right now I'd rather use online tools like Campaign Monitor and edit the code in Dreamweaver for now. In the end this is the only html email app that I have found that is works at all, so if they improve the app I may go back to using it. I will say that customer service is excellent. Why would you want to use a html editor you ask? There are just some things that you have to do in an editor that this app will not do. This makes editing in an html editing app or even a text editor impossible. One of my biggest beefs is that it doesn’t use standard html formatting, in that when you use images in the app, the code renames it in to a very long sequence of numbers and letters rather than keeping the original name. This app needs to be more like InDesign or Quark in that it gives the users better control over aspects of the design. I just want to enter a number into a box and be done. Everything is click and drag and that, quite frankly, becomes a drag at some point.

For a professional there are no precise controls. Its not a *bad* app, just not very good yet. Unfortunately Mail Designer isn't quite up to the task yet. I left this review for the regular version of this app as well, they are essentially the same save for some templates of resources.

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