Tips for better newsletters: Making templates your own
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010So you’ve found the perfect template for your newsletter, but now you’re wondering how to separate yours from any others that might use that same template. The key to making your newsletter stand out against the rest is the customization of your additional pages.
Adding Additional Pages:
You’re already familiar with LetterPop’s beautiful selection of newsletter templates, but did you know that each template has it’s own set of 10 alternate pages that allow for even greater customization. Adding one of these alternate pages is easy. After you’ve dragged a template into the builder, a new navigation will appear giving you the option to select between, add, delete, and reorder the pages in your newsletter. Clicking the add button will open a new menu allowing you to select one of the 11 options below:

As you can see, a template’s alternate pages can be anything from one giant block of text, to multiple columns containing both text and images.
Further Customization:
Incorporating several different alternate pages will do a lot to give your newsletter a unique feel, but many of these pages can be even further customized. For each alternate page containing an image frame with a text block next to it, the frame can be dragged horizontally to alter the layout of the page.

In the above example, the picture on the left is the default layout of this alternate page, while the picture on the right demonstrates a custom layout where the bottom image frame has been dragged from the left side of the layout to the right.

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.
Starting right now, you can use your Flickr photos with LetterPop. If you have a Flickr account, you now have access to every photo in your Flickr account for use in your newsletters. There are two ways to link your Flickr account with LetterPop: