I’ve compiled a list of email developer resources that have helped me throughout my career. Check out the list below:

Email Developer Training

CodingPhase is a beginner-focused learning platform designed for people with no prior developer background. It teaches core skills like HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript while offering multiple guided paths into your first developer role—including email development.

  • CodingPhase has helped myself and hundreds of others land their first email developer role.

Marketing Cloud Training

Supermums Salesforce Marketing Cloud offers a structured Salesforce Marketing Cloud training program designed for experienced email developers who want real, job-ready SFMC skills—including hands-on access to Salesforce Marketing Cloud org, something many other courses don’t provide. The training focuses on practical platform experience, guided learning, and career outcomes, making it a strong option for email developers looking to upskill or transition into SFMC-focused roles.

  • I have personally taken Supermums training and allowed me to jumpstart my SFMC career.

AMPscript Academy is a focused learning community built specifically for Salesforce Marketing Cloud professionals who want to understand AMPScript deeply and use it with confidence. It goes beyond surface-level examples to show how AMPScript actually works in real SFMC environments—helping experienced email and marketing automation professionals push past platform limitations and take on more advanced, higher-impact work.

  • Joining the yearly membership exposed a lot of blind spots in my AMPScript knowledge. Working through the material helped me significantly improve how I use AMPScript, SQL, and SSJS in real SFMC work.

Minute Admin offers Salesforce Marketing Cloud focused courses designed to help experienced email developers understand core SFMC admin concepts, data models, automation, and SFMC platform fundamentals. This does NOT include direct access to a Salesforce Marketing Cloud org. Kaelan Moss holds multiple Salesforce Marketing Cloud certifications.

  • Minute Admin was a helpful resource when I finally decided to get SFMC certifieid.

HTML Editors

Parcel.io is a browser-based code editor built specifically for email developers, with real-time previews, reusable components, and workflow features that make building and iterating on HTML emails faster and less painful.

  • Once I started earning as a freelance email developer, Parcel.io became worth the extra cost.

Email Rendering & Testing Tools

Minty Email Tester is a lightweight email testing tool that lets you quickly preview and debug HTML emails across popular clients—ideal for fast checks during development without the overhead of enterprise testing platforms.

  • When I doubt what other rendering tools are showing me, this is the one I trust.

Email on Acid is a full-featured email testing platform that is reasonably priced, won’t price gouge, and previews emails across major clients ensuring your emails look great regardless of the email client.

  • Worth every penny to ensure my emails work across multiple email clients.

Graphic Editing Tools

Adobe Photoshop remains the industry standard for image editing and visual assets in my opinion. While tools like Figma are popular among designers, my clients still expect Photoshop-ready files.

  • Photoshop is my go-to for email design—about 90% of my clients use it.

Email Frameworks

MJML is an open-source framework that lets email developers write simplified markup and compile it into responsive HTML emails, helping speed up builds while handling many of the quirks of email clients automatically.

  • MJML is my secret sauce for emails that just work. I use MJML for my freelance clients, NOT at my corporate job.
  • In my experience, email frameworks work well for freelancing, but corporate teams still expect hand-coded emails and HTML email development knowledge.