I stayed up late to install the new Macintosh Operating system: OS X Leopard.
I'm pretty sure this officially makes me a geek.
But I wanted to get it installed and working for one very specific reason - to see how easy it would be to edit the new templates available for the Mail application.
Apple snubs the business market again.
From the first moment I saw the templates that would be available, I was upset. Once again Apple has decided to ignore the business market and only include templates for personal email use. While the templates are great and just mind numbingly easy to use, there are no templates that allow you to change out a logo for business use.
So my task tonight was to see how difficult it would be to edit an existing template and create my own Mail template.
The image on the right is my first attempt. I edited the existing "Fun" template, which actually required almost no HTML changes. It was almost entirely graphic editing. The process is really simple if you know how to do some basic image editing and understand that you need to save your changes over top of the existing files, using the exact same file names and formats.
I've experienced no problems with the upgrade so far. For those of you who are going to be making the leap to OS X Leopard and are not afraid to dive into the guts of the Library folder and edit package contents, a more complete description of how to edit Mail templates in OS X Leopard is located here.
Enjoy!
For those who don't read the comments... here are two more templates that have been "de-cuted" and made available for download.
Mac OS X Leopard Mail Templates - White 1 and White 2
And a very simple letterhead template that you can place your own logo into. Instructions and download are here:
A Customizable Letterhead Template For Mac OS X Leopard Mail
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