Editing newsletters

Gipper Newsletters allows you to create and share digital newsletters, updates, and announcements quickly using customizable, ready-made templates. You can enhance your newsletters by embedding graphics, photos, videos, and clickable links to engage your community and prompt actions. Share your newsletters on social media, via email, or on your website to effectively reach your audience.

Need ideas? See our blog post with use-case examples here!

Table of Contents

• Getting started
• Adjust sections
• Edit header graphic
• Add sections
  • Image
  • Text
  • Layout
  • Button
  • Video
  • Logo
  • Divider
  • Spacer
• Save and publish

Rather watch than read? Check out the video walkthrough.

Getting started

Navigate to the Newsletter dashboard by clicking the "Newsletters" tab in the left-side navigation bar. This will take you to the Newsletters template dashboard, where you can select from a ready-made template or start from scratch.

Adjust sections

Once you've opened a template, you can start by adjusting and editing the existing sections or adding new ones. With the existing sections, you adjust in the following ways by selecting the section and using the icons to the right that appear:

1. Duplicate
2. Delete
3. Move up
4. Move down

Edit header graphic

Each Newsletter template will have a header graphic at the top. If you start from scratch, you can add this in. In order to edit the graphic, simply select the header, and the left-side editing section will appear. You then have the option to:

1. Upload an image from your device
2. Browse your Gallery
3. Graphics
   1. Select a saved graphics
   2. Create a graphic in real time

If you click "Create," a window will appear, prompting you to choose a header template from our library of header templates. Once selected, a new tab will open, allowing you to edit the header graphic in-real-time.

Click "Save to Newsletter" in the top right corner, and you will be redirected back to your newsletter with the new header uploaded.

Add / edit sections

When you hover over a section on the Newsletter, two blue "Add Section" buttons will appear above and below the section you are hovering over. This will allow you to add a new section either above or below the selected section. 

You can select from 8 different actions - all listed below.

Additionally, if you select an existing section, you are able to edit it. 

Image

When adding or editing an image section, the left-side editing section will allow you to do the following actions:

1. Upload an image from your Gallery or your device or select a saved graphic
2. Add a URL to allow that image to be clickable
3. Change the number of images from 1-3
4. Adjust image width
5. Change alignment
6. Change the background color of the section
7. Change the section padding

Text

There will be 3 ways to adjust text:

1. Edit the text from the Newsletter
2. Adjust the styling of the text in the top toolbar
3. Adjust the formatting of the section in the left-side editing section

Edit text

Simply double-click on the text section on the Newsletter and edit the existing text.

Adjust styling

When text is selected, a top toolbar will appear. This will allow you to edit:

1. Font
2. Size
3. Styling (bold, italics, underline, strikethrough)
4. Color
5. List (bullet, numbered)
6. Link

Adjust Formatting

From the left-side editing section, you can adjust:

1. Columns (1-4)
2. Space between columns
3. Section background color
4. Section padding

Layout

Layout refers to a section with both an image and text. You can edit and adjust the text using the on-canvas functionality listed above and the top toolbar.

The photo will be adjusted from the left-side editing section, where you can:

1. Upload from your Gallery
2. Upload from your device
3. Add a URL
4. Flip the layout
5. Adjust the section background color
6. Adjust section padding
7. Adjust the space between the image and the text

Button

Buttons create powerful Calls to Action (CTAs). You can edit the text on the button(s) by double-clicking on the button text on the Newsletter (as listed in the text section above). To adjust the button, see the left-side editing section where you can:

1. Adjust button color
2. Adjust button shape (sharp or round corners)
3. Choose the number of buttons (1-4)
4. Change alignment
5. Change orientation if more than 1 button
6. Adjust the section background color
7. Adjust section padding
8. Add the URL for each button

Video

You can add videos to your Newsletter from a variety of sources. From the left-side editing section, you can:

1. Embed a YouTube video 
2. Upload from your Gallery
3. Uploading from your device
4. Adjust the section background color
5. Adjust section padding

Logo

When you add a logo to a Newsletter, it will automatically add the default Workspace Logo. You can do the following from the left-side editing section:

1. Pick a different workspace logo
2. Browse your Gallery
3. Upload from your device
4. Search our institution logo database
5. Adjust the logo width
6. Adjust alignment
7. Adjust the section background color
8. Adjust the section padding

Divider

Dividers help break up the sections visually. When you add or edit a divider, you can:

1. Adjust the width
2. Change thickness
3. Adjust the divider color
4. Adjust alignment
5. Adjust the section background color
6. Adjust section padding

Spacer

Similar to dividers, spaces help break up the sections and create a more natural flow visually. When you add or edit a spacer, you can:

1. Adjust the height
2. Adjust the background color

Save and publish

Be sure to save your Newsletter in order to resuse it. Once saved, you can duplicate, share with your Workspace Teams, and publish!

To learn more about reusing Newsletters, sharing, or publishing - see our article here: Publishing and sharing newsletters

Thank you for reading! If you have any questions, please contact our team by emailing support@gogipper.com or calling (929) 207-8459.