By Chris Vasquez March 23, 2023
Email is an efficient and intimate option to join together with your viewers. You put thought, effort, coronary heart and soul into the messages you ship to construct connections, share what you’ve made, and in the end earn a dwelling.
The very last thing you need to be eager about whereas writing a message is how the editor works. One of our core values at AWeber is to hearken to what folks say about us and invite suggestions, so we requested how we may make the modifying expertise sooner and simpler. We bought a bunch of nice suggestions and as we speak we’re providing you with entry to try out the updated email editing toolbar.
Controls are at all times out there proper the place you want them
We heard that it may very well be robust discovering styling controls like textual content alignment and making bulleted lists as a result of they have been behind the paragraph styling button. Yes, it did make a cleaner writing canvas, however having to click on an additional button to get to types was not simple.
We don’t need something you do in the message editor to be irritating, so we pulled all the textual content styling controls out right into a styling bar that’s at all times on display whilst you’re writing and modifying textual content. You don’t have to recollect the place choices are, they’re proper the place you count on them to be.
“I love it! Now all the formatting tools are right there, and I don’t have to hold a pull down to get to the center text option. It’s not in my way, it’s just quietly up there being available when I need it.”
Melina VanLone, Author
Updates
- Whether you’re seeking to replace the font fashion, add photographs, create an image in Canva, or add personalization to talk on to your subscribers – it’s proper there in the bar.
- The styling controls are modeled after the opposite content material creation instruments you employ in your day after day, so transferring between your instruments ought to really feel acquainted and pure.
- When you choose a bit of textual content, a mini toolbar seems close by with handy formatting choices so you may shortly daring, italicize, and hyperlink textual content.
Never marvel about your present types
We heard requests to make it simpler to maintain your textual content styling constant all through your messages.
Updates
- The textual content styling bar will at all times present you the types (the fonts, font-sizes, colours, paragraph types, and alignment) of no matter textual content you’re engaged on so it’s simple to examine your copy for consistency at a look – with out having to dig by means of any menus.
“The new experience is MUCH better! Thank you for listening to the feedback and providing users with a better product.”
Sally Zaleski
Edit on any display measurement
You’re not at all times in entrance of your laptop when an thought strikes you or – heaven forbid – once you bear in mind a change you must make in a message scheduled to ship quickly.
Updates
- Now you may soar into considered one of your messages or create a brand new one in your desktop, laptop computer, pill, or cellphone with out the necessity for downloading any apps.
- The editor isn’t simply up to date for telephones, it’s been adjusted for quite a lot of totally different display sizes so that you get an expertise designed to your gadget.
More house to put in writing
The web generally is a distracting place with all of the information, social posts, memes, and extra memes flying round and we incessantly hear about struggles with getting in the zone for targeted writing. With that in thoughts, we’ve taken care to attenuate noise and distraction in the editor.
Updates
- Removed wasted house, grouped associated gadgets collectively, and removed pointless borders and descriptions.
- Added delicate animations to make it clear what components you may work together with so every little thing feels extra app-like and pure.
On a mission to make creating emails sooner
These updates come on high of a bunch of latest enhancements we’ve made based mostly on the way you’ve informed us you write content material.
It’s a lot simpler so as to add photographs proper into your textual content aspect so it’s simple to construct your message with out having to depart your circulation state. You can drop a picture out of your desktop into your message, add a picture out of your gallery, or create a picture in Canva and add it to your message with out leaving AWeber.
You can even drag and drop any aspect anyplace in your email with out having to verify it’s in the beginning or finish of a textual content aspect.
Another manner the editor has been up to date to hurry up your course of is by including markdown shortcuts so you may fashion your textual content with out leaving your keyboard. Some of essentially the most useful markdown shortcuts are:
| * | begin a bulleted checklist |
| #, ##, ### | set textual content to a headline of a unique measurement |
| — | create a horizontal line |
| > | make a block quote |
Most lately we added hyperlink previews as a option to flip a URL into a totally designed block of content material, a button, or a human readable hyperlink with none guide effort in your half.
How to check out the brand new editor
Just click this link and also you’ll be dropped at a brand new message in your AWeber account utilizing the up to date controls.
If for some motive you need to return to the present editor, you may reset the editor.
We suppose you’re going to search out the up to date textual content modifying expertise sooner and simpler to make use of. None of those enhancements would’ve been made with out suggestions from folks such as you who use AWeber to attach together with your viewers.
Thanks for the suggestions (maintain it coming) and thanks for trusting AWeber with your small business. Now get in there and write one thing fantastic.