A well designed newsletter/email template can be the difference between success an failure. Whether its to update customers about a product, or to share information, having a well designed template can be a great starting point to guide your readers and give them a clear coherent flow when they read your email. This is crucial, considering how important the first impression is.

Here is round-up of some of the best free HTML newsletter templates on the Internet you can download without paying a penny.

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Top Five: Free Newsletter Templates We Like Best

• Campaign Monitor – 30 FREE HTML Newsletter Templates
  Here is a neatly sorted collection of 30 well produced templates which have been tested against all major email clients and web mail, for example Outlook, Thunderbird and Gmail. One of the feature is that it already pre-sorts all the templates into those with left or right sidebars, or single column templates

  

• Carbon Graffiti – 10 Free email marketing templates
  Carbon Graffiti is a great design website, and one of the cool resources theyve made available are 10 free email marketing templates. Designs range from very simple basic ones to custom complex templates.
  

• Aweber: – 5 Awesome Functional Newsletter Templates
  Aweber has some of the best newsletter templates out there, and some of them go beyond a good design and are pretty darn functional as well. Here are 5 of the best from Aweber.

  Download
  This is a great email template to use when sending over a note asking someone to download a file. This template also comes in 3 flavors – one for PDFs, one for audio, and one for any other files, as well as 6 colors – so youre able to easily customize your readers download experience.

  

  Welcome
  This is a perfect email template to use send when youre welcoming new members to your service.

  

  Blog Newsletter
  If you write a blog, this is a great template to share your info and updates in a newsletter to build a stronger relationship with your readers.

  

  Malibu
  This email template was specially built to communicate promotional offers in a quick and efficient manner.

  

  Outdoorsy
  2-column (right-hand sidebar) email template with an organic feel and navigation links available to use in the header.

  

• MailChimp – 4 basic flexible HTML email templates
  Mailchip four basic, flexible templates that you can use to get started. They’ve been tested to render properly in all the major email programs, like Outlook 2007, Lotus Notes, Gmail, and more.

  

• Cakemail – 17 Well Designed Newsletter Templates

  

More Free Newsletter Templates

Here are some other sites which also offer up free newsletter templates for download.

• Interspire – 30 Free Newsletter templates

  

• Stock Layouts – TechTimes theme
  This is a beautifully designed theme, although it requires you to register (for free) on the site.

  

• Octeth – 10 Free Email Templates

  

• Hot Email Templates – 28 Free HTML Email Templates

  

• Active Campaign – 11 Free Email Templates

  

• Mach5 – 4 Free Email Templates

  

• Omnistare Tools – 10 Free Email Newsletter Templates
  A variety of free templates, but it requires (free) signup.

  

• Benchmark – 3 Simple HTML Email Templates

  

• Delivery Success – 10 Free Newsletter Templates

  

• Templatesbox – 84 Free Newletter Templates