LetterPop

With every template there are now ten (count ‘em) new page layout options. And you can now add a lot more pictures in a lot more variety than you could before. Just choose a theme and you’ll see all of the new options when you click the “Add pages” button.

All of the photo pages, by the way, let you move the pictures to the other side of the text block or picture they are next to. Just drag the frame to where you want it.

There are still a lot more themes coming and each of those will also have all of these layout options. Here’s a preview of what’s coming:

First, some of you were having trouble mailing newsletters because the buttons that were supposed to appear in “Step 3″ weren’t there. That has been fixed.

Second, some of you are still having trouble mailing newsletters. Here’s a quick tutorial:

1. First, create a great looking newsletter.
2. Then, go to your address book. Use the Quick Add link to add some contacts. We’ll be adding address importing soon.
3. Click the checkbox next to each contact you want to add to a mailing list then click the green add button (looks like a plus sign) beneath your contact list.
4. A new contact list is created on the right side. Name it and save it.
5. Now you can send newsletters to those contacts simply by clicking the envelope icon next to the contact list name.

Keep those suggestions and error reports coming in. You guys are really helping out! Thanks a bunch.

So, we’ve been working LetterPop for a couple of months now. I really hope you like it. And thank you for participating in our Beta testing program.

One area that we’re working very quickly to improve is the available selection of templates. Expect a lot of new additions in that area over the coming weeks.

If you’ve got any suggestions at all, I’d love to hear them. Just use the link at the top of every page (“Found a problem? Looking for the suggestion box?”) to send us feedback. Email sent using that address goes directly to me and I promise to read every single one.

Also, please use that link if you find any problems using the service. We are in Beta so there are bound to be a few problems lurking here and there.

Features you can expect to see in the near future:

• Tagging of both newsletters and uploaded images. LetterPop is not a generic image hosting service but we still think it’s important to be able to tag images so that at least you can find them again for use in newsletters.
• Contact importing from Outlook and other PIMs.
• RSS feeds for profiles so you can stay informed when a friend publishes a new newsletter.
• Lots more templates!