Creating a Newsletter
With Smore you can make beautiful and engaging newsletters. Our drag and drop editor is very simply and this article will help you dive straight into creating first newsletter.
Creating Newsletters from Scratch
- Click on the orange ‘Start a Newsletter’ button.
- Select your basic template and then click start editing.
- Start by personalizing your design to fit your school/district/personal brand guidelines in order to help strengthen your brand and identity. This will work to create a digital bond with your community.
Click on Add your logo to upload a logo from your device
Click on the drop down next to modern to choose a design ( each design comes with different font, color and background option)
Click on background, font and color to choose which one you want to use
To upload a custom background click on custom
Hover over the Header and click on edit to personalize the header, either with an image you upload or connect to your canva account.
If your header has text embedded make sure to have Display header text, swiped to the left. (The Header Title is the name of your newsletters and the Subject line, so you want to make it catchy).
When complete click Done.
- Start creating the structure of your newsletter by using the Title Widget to input all your section subtitles.
Click on Title and then the applicable +Add here. You will see that each Title you input, is added to the Table of Contents.
Continue adding all your sections until completed and remove the sections you do not need by hovering over a section and clicking on the trashcan icon.
- Add in the content to your sections using a variety of widgets and layout to make the newsletter as fun and engaging as possible.
Simply hover over a SubTitle and click on the + and select which type of content ( which widget) you want to input.
Click on the widget and follow the instructions. Remember to click Done when you are finished.
- Before publishing, check your newsletter and alter any section by hovering over it and clicking edit or layout.
- Once finished click the blue publish button to save all edit.
- If you don’t finish a newsletter you can return to it by hovering over it and clicking edit either when on your Homepage or in your Newsletters tab.
