Customizing email templates
Magento has a lot of functionality that sends emails on particular actions, such as a new order, customer information, newsletter, and many more.
When customizing the look and feel of your website, it is nice that your email templates have the same look and feel.
In this recipe, we will learn how we can do this. We will customize the new account email and we will learn how we can edit the generic header and footer of the transactional emails.
Getting ready
We will customize email templates. To test this, make sure your development environment can send emails.
Like the previous recipes, we will build the code further on the things that we have done in the previous recipes. If you don't have the complete code, you can install the start files for this recipe.
How to do it…
The following steps show how we can customize the email templates without overriding the standard templates:
The email templates are located in the view folder of each module. If we want to change the...