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HTML Emails: Adding & Styling Text

In Part 4 of our video series on creating HTML emails we show you how to add text to the email using tables and also style the text using inline CSS.

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HTML Emails: Doctype, Metadata & Structure

We are in the process of making a short video series: 'How To Create HTML Emails’. Part 3 of the series takes you through the HTML which can be used as a starting point when writing the code. We’ve included the code here so that you can copy and paste it if you want to get started making an HTML email quickly:

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Make Sure Real Emails Don't Get Sent To Spam - Gmail 2015

All modern email clients come with a spam filter, including Gmail. This is generally a good thing because it prevents your inbox filling up with spam emails - instead spam emails get sent straight to your spam folder and don’t ever make it to your inbox.

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New Feature - Take a Break

Some of our customers have requested a feature where members can take a break from receiving list emails rather than completely unsubscribe. We could see that this feature would be useful in a lot of situations...

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Subscribe Forms - Everything You Need To Know

We’ve just completed a series of short videos on subscribe forms. These videos take you through everything that you need to know to place a subscribe or unsubscribe form on your website: adding a the form to your site, customising the form to suit your needs and styling the form to match your website perfectly... Adding A Form To Your Website This is very simple - just login to your simplelists account, navigate to 'general settings’, select 'subscriptions’ and you’ll see the code which you can copy and paste to your website.

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In our last blog post, we explained that your email delivery rates might be reduced if your list members report your emails as 'spam’. A feature of Simplelists is that we enable the members of your list to engage easily in private group discussion with one another. So, it’s important that your emails get opened and that your members don’t mark them as spam before doing so, whether accidentally or not.

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Using a Subdomain for List Emails

We’ve recently produced some videos with instructions on how to use your own domain with your email lists. The main advantage to using your own domain is that you can brand the entire Simplelists system as your own.

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Simplelists API (beta)

Simplelists is designed to be really easy to use with only very basic computer skills needed to manage your email list - if you can click and type you can use Simplelists! However, there are also a range of technical features which open up a world of options for more advanced users. One of these is an API...

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Insert a Member's Name into Emails

Simplelists has a feature which allows you to insert members’ names into the group emails that you send. We’ll jump straight in and tell you how to do it and then discuss why it’s useful and when it is important to include a person’s name.

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New - Search Archives!

We’ve added a search function to the archives pages - it enables you to find old emails by searching with keywords. Previously you could browse emails by date or by thread - these browsing functions are still available alongside the new search function. Read on to hear about the special features...