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Available immediately, every member now has a syndication feed (RSS) for your published newsletters. RSS feeds are a way for readers to subscribe to your newsletters and be automatically updated whenever you publish a new one. This is a great alternative for members who don’t want to email out newsletters and for readers who don’t want to share their email address.

All you need to take advantage of this feature is an active, public profile. To activate your profile, just visit your profile management page in the account section and follow the instructions. Be sure to make it public if you want other people to see it. Incidentally, that also allows your profile to be featured on the LetterPop Explore page.

For advanced users who want to track how many people subscribe to their feeds, we’ve added the ability to integrate your newsletter feed with FeedBurner. Just enter your full FeedBurner URL on your profile page and your feed will be redirected automagically.

Time to let everybody know you just hit your 1 month anniversary…or how about an announcement of that long anticipated engagement…maybe you’ve been married 40 years today. This new letterpop! template will also allow you to announce events like baby showers, weddings, parties, Bar Mitzvahs, well you get the idea.

And don’t forget to let us know if you make a template that’s worthy of being recognized in our monthly newsletter.

If you like purple, your gonna be in heaven as of right now.

Don’t forget to check out the interior pages as well which can also make stunningly creative newsletters. Just about all of the templates we’ve been making for you have 10 standard interior pages for your designing pleasure.

You can now upgrade your LetterPop account.  Upgrading is fast and easy using Google Checkout.  And our Premium service offers incredible value – for a limited time it is only $9.98 a year!  You get additional newsletters, additional contacts, additional pictures, and much more.  And we’ll be adding new features all the time.  Get the specifics right here.

Enjoy!

We’ve created a couple of new templates to test your creative genius. Enjoy!

If you’ve published your newsletter (every user now has a personal Profile page where public, published newsletters appear) and you’ve made the newsletter public, then your readers will be able to leave comments for you. When you sign in, you’ll see any new comments left on your newsletters on your home page.

Of course, registered LetterPop members can leave comments for you, but so can anyone in your personal address book by just entering their email address on the comment form. We DO NOT keep those addresses on file—they are only used to verify that the reader is someone known to you so that we can prevent comment spam.

I was surprised to find out that we have 20 new templates designs since our last template announcement post about a month ago! I did the math and we’ve been putting up a new template every 1.3 days. Pretty cool, eh? Keep sending those requests and template ideas.

Some of you wrote to let us know that your text was disappearing when you saved it.  We recently got to the bottom of this issue and made a fix in that will make this less likely!

By the way, there’s a similar issue happening in some of the earlier version of firefox.  If you are using firefox and have any issues with the text boxes, install the latest version (Firefox/2.0.0.1) and that should do the trick.

Oh yah, and in case anyone cares, here’s a more detailed description of the issue…  This was a tricky one.  It would primarily happen when you’d hit return within a text box.  Return in the text box means “add a new paragraph break”.  This automatically adds padding above and below your text.  It wasn’t too much of a problem with the larger text boxes (that typically have smaller fonts), but was extremely problematic in the smaller ones with larger fonts because those add much more padding above the text and caused it to move down below the viewable area.

It’s never too late to send a LetterPop Valentine. You can send them right up until the big day and we’ll make sure they land in your beloved’s inbox on time.