Marketo's email editor is obviously terrible

We were also frustrated with Marketo's email builder, mainly because of the specific syntax vs. actual coding and because most of the Marketo templates didn't want to render correctly in Outlook, which is the primary email client of our customers. I happened to come across the Hoosh template builder, which is not code-free, but does give some flexibility in building an initial template.

Yes, we had a template built as well. The modules are very similar to what's available in dreamweaver and it's made our lives much easier to build directly in Marketo. I'm more disappointed with Marketo's form functionality and Landing Pages. Would be great to have built in recaptcha on all forms and an update with the landing page editor.

For now we've moved to Instapage for all landing pages which is much easier to design with and has much sleeker forms to work with.

I was also shocked at the low quality of Marketo's email editor tool. Hopefully enough people chime in on this to get this bumped up the priority list to improve sooner than later.