Email Newsletters - Content types

When creating an Email Newsletter in Haiilo, you can choose between 9 different types of content to include in your email and this article will dive into the different options that you can use one by one. 

Title

Use the Title content type to create title(s) for your email newsletter. You are able to:

  • edit the font style, size, color, link color, alignment, line height, and spacing of your titles.

  • add merge tags to your titles, for example first name, last name and email, to personalize the email for your recipients.

  • add padding around your title on all sides to determine how close or far it is from the next content in the email.

  • and decide whether a title is hidden from the email when a recipient views it on mobile or desktop.

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Text

Use the Text content type to create text boxes in your email newsletter. Similarly to Titles, you are able to:

  • edit the font style, size, color, link color, alignment, line height, and spacing of your text.

  • add merge tags to your text, for example first name, last name and email, to personalize the email for your recipients.

  • add padding around your text boxes on all sides to determine how close or far it is from the next content in the email.

  • and decide whether a text box is hidden from the email when a recipient views it on mobile or desktop.

In addition, you can also do the following which cannot be done for titles:

  • add special characters like symbols and arrows.

  • create numbered or bulleted lists

Image

Use the Image content type to add images that you want to feature in your email newsletter. With the image content type, you can:

  • upload an image via URL or from your computer

  • decide the width of your image and how it displays on mobile

  • change the image's alignment in your newsletter

  • add padding around your image on all sides to determine how close or far it is from the next content in the email.

  • and decide whether a image is hidden from the email when a recipient views it on mobile or desktop.

Button

Use the Button content type to add buttons to your email newsletter that recipients can click to be taken to external sources. To use the button content type, you should:

  • add a URL where a recipient is taken when clicking the button

  • edit the button's size and color and the text's style, size and color

  • decide the width, alignment and spacing of your button

  • decide if you want to have a border around your button and if so, what color. Then you can also choose the border radius (i.e. rounded edges)

  • add padding around your button's text on the inside and around the button itself on the outside

  • and decide whether a text box is hidden from the email when a recipient views it on mobile or desktop.

Divider

A Divider can be used to add divisions between the different content types in your email newsletter to make it easier for recipients to understand the flow of your email. You can easily:

  • decide the length, width, and color of your divider and if you want the line to be solid, dotted or dashed.

  • change the alignment of your divider

  • add padding around your divider on all sides to determine how close or far it is from the next content in the email.

  • and decide whether a divider is hidden from the email when a recipient views it on mobile or desktop.

Social

Add Social icons to your email newsletter if you want your recipients to be able to navigate to social accounts or pages directly from the email. There is an extensive list of social networks you choose from to include in your newsletter.

You can format the look of the icons by choosing between multiple options in Haiilo. You can decide where they lead to by adding URLs to each social network. Also, as with most content types, you can also:

  • change the alignment and spacing of your social icons

  • add padding around your divider on all sides to determine how close or far it is from the next content in the email.

  • and decide whether a divider is hidden from the email when a recipient views it on mobile or desktop.

HTML

If you'd like to code your own HTML email template you can do so with the HTML content type. While using the HTML content type, you can also:

  • decide whether your HTML part is hidden from the email when a recipient views it on mobile or desktop.

Video

Use the Video content type to add YouTube or Vimeo videos that you want to feature in your email newsletter. With the video content type, you can:

  • upload a video via URL from YouTube or Vimeo

  • decide the look of the Play-icon by changing its type, color (light or dark) and size

  • add padding around your video on all sides to determine how close or far it is from the next content in the email.

  • and decide whether a video is hidden from the email when a recipient views it on mobile or desktop.

Haiilo Post

Use the Haiilo Post content type to add posts from your company Haiilo domain to your email newsletter. Click on 'Post' to open the post list from where you can choose a post you want to add.

The posts you can see in the list corresponds to what you can see on your Haiilo feed. The list is sorted chronologically by Published date and will show the title, part of the description, image and post author.

You can search for posts on your Published feed by keywords, and any post where that word is found in the title or body of a post or the post author's name will appear in the Search results. You can only search with letters that are a part of the English alphabet. Haiilo cannot identify special characters such as ä, ø, or ß.

After adding a post to the newsletter, you can decide whether it will be hidden from the email when a recipient views it on mobile or desktop. 

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