Excellent HTML Newsletter Templates – Best Of

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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.

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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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Full list after jump.

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.
    carbon grafitti

  • 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.

    downloadthis

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

    welcome

    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.

    blognewsletter

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

    malibu

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

    2blognews

  • 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.

    mailchimp

  • Cakemail – 17 Well Designed Newsletter Templates

    cakemail

More Free Newsletter Templates

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

About Author: James Yeang is the writer of a Malaysian tech blog called Friedbeef’s Tech, and can also be found on Twitter.

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Comments

  1. J. Mallinukke November 4th, 2009

    Excellent list, wtih the Mach5 Templates being my favourite ones. Thank you.

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  2. Samoo November 5th, 2009

    Very handy collection. I think it will turn useful very soon!

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  3. Pavel Ciorici November 5th, 2009

    Nice sets, but I know another one set of email templates that doesn’t seem to be included in this list – http://www.sendcube.com/features/free_templates.html

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  4. Daniel Coverdale November 5th, 2009

    Some very interesting designs on Campaign monitor, I find the best designs are the ones with the least actual design. You can achieve a lot simply through great typography and a few vivid images.

    Blik’s have always been my favourite

    http://gallery.campaignmonitor.com/ViewEmail/y/9B8E091E198D2EDD/

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  5. Mapuc November 5th, 2009

    excellent list, nice template and suitable for my blog, thanks kerja keras

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  6. Design Informer November 5th, 2009

    Awesome post! Definitely useful.

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  7. Web Design in Sheffield November 5th, 2009

    Some great templates here , will bookmark and use in the future for real! :-)

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  8. nauman November 5th, 2009

    I’ve never seen this type of post before and its definitely helpful and need every week. Thanks for the effort and share.

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  9. Concours November 5th, 2009

    Great Post, very useful ressources. Thanks for sharing

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  10. Dzinepress November 5th, 2009

    stunning templates even for better idea to work on xhtml projects. thanks

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  11. Soft Skills November 5th, 2009

    I was preparing for the and I am in real luck to discover this post. Thanks for sharing, Hong Kiat :D

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  12. Liew Chin How November 5th, 2009

    Thanks HK.. another great post. The template are really nice and hope have time to try it out.

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  13. DisAstro November 5th, 2009

    I like how they look. I wonder, however: did you test them in different browsers? Different email clients?

    Outdoorsy for example looks nice, but I assume that it FAILS when it comes to cross system compatability.

    Looks only matter if the email is actually usable.

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  14. amy November 6th, 2009

    Another great post! Just wondering if anybody has any any links or screenshots of good HTML templates in practice? It’s always good to see templates, another thing to see examples to benchmark as good communication. Would be eager to see any links.

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  15. Walter November 6th, 2009

    This post came in a timely passion! I can’t believe it. I was just searching online for newletter template for emails and the crap came out. You did a really good job and yes i totally agree that a template can make or break your business. Great Job!

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  16. Techie November 6th, 2009

  17. facebook Applications November 7th, 2009

    I have learned a lot of from this article.
    This article give me a unique idea for my Facebook application design.
    Thanks.

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  18. Rahul - Web Guru November 7th, 2009

    Super cool… one more bookmark to my collection.

    Cheers.

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  19. Altis Lo (Beaulife) November 8th, 2009

    Wow! This is a great sharing, that saves me hours of research. Just as what I need. Thanks!

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  20. Min Thu November 9th, 2009

    This is great. Will you be posting about HTML website templates? :)

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  21. Bob Ricca November 9th, 2009

    @DisAstro

    I’m the guy who coded that Outdoorsy template. I 100% agree with what you are saying. Having an aesthetically pleasing email is important… but what would fashion be without form. Therefore I think its important to code every email to degrade gracefully…

    I test all the emails I code in a variety of email clients and browsers (Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, Outlook, Thunderbird, Mail, etc…). Some email clients are more flexible than others. So when I create these email templates I specifically take this into consideration… for example instead of using images for design elements (which are usually disabled by default), I’ll use a background image in a table cell (which DOES display by default on most clients). But, for the email clients that do not display background images, I’ll fall back to the background color of the same table cell to convey the general gist of the design.

    Admittedly certain programs (e.g. Microsoft Outlook) can be extremely frustrating and bothersome to design for. So instead of stunting my design and limiting my possibilities in 95% of other email clients I prefer to send people in outlook a watered down version of the design that is still 100% professional looking and legible. And to be honest, with how rigid Microsoft Outlook is when it comes to email HTML there really isn’t much of a choice to do otherwise.

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  22. WordPress Themes @CMSTheme.NET November 9th, 2009

    Thanks mate, excellent list of template newsletter.

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  23. Online Ideas November 10th, 2009

    To big list of templates for me to check them all :)

    Reply

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