How to Navigate Newsletter Block Menu Tiles

When creating a newsletter, you have the opportunity to either build it from scratch by adding different types of Block Menu Tools, or opening a canned Template, and inserting Block Menu Tool Tiles into the Template.

Location of Block Menu Tools

Whether you are using an existing template, or building a template from scratch, the Block Menu Tool Tiles live on the right side of the Newsletter. Blocks give you the flexibility to customize content containers when formatting the newsletter.

Block Menu Navigation

1. To add a Block Menu Tool, click on the Tile then drag the tile into the Template.

   1. There are many Block style options to choose from

   2. After you have added one Block, click the X at the top right of the menu to go back to the Block selection to add another

How to Add Content to the Block

1. Once you've added a Block to a Container, click on the Content Menu

Block Tools Navigation

1. Column Properties

   1. Column Tabs

      1. Depending on the Block row you inserted, you will see different tabs for each Column that you can edit

2. Background

   1. You can click on the Color Picker tile to choose a color or add a HEX or RGB code for a specific color

3. Padding

   1. Choose to use "Padding All Sides" to equally apply padding around the column (space between and around columns)

      1. Via More Options, choose to set Padding individually for the Top, Right, Left, and Bottom sides

4. Border

   1. Choose to adjust the Border equally as a solid, dotted, or dashed border, border color, or via more options, choose Top, Right, Left, or Bottom, and adjust each with their color, and solid, dotted, or dashed border type

   2. This will automatically update the color in the Newsletter

Row Properties

1. Background Color

   1. This is the color that sits behind the block set you have in place

2. Content Background Color

   1. This is the color that sits behind the entire expanse of the block set you have in place

3. Background Image

   1. Upload, insert an image via URL, or choose an image from the free image library in seconds within the Image tool.

      1. The image library is powered by Unsplash, Pexels, and Pixabay.

         All images are licensed under Creative Commons Zero.

      2. What is meant by Creative Commons?

         Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law.

4. Padding

   1. Choose to use "Padding All Sides" to equally apply padding around the column (space between and around columns)

      1. Via More Options, choose to set Padding individually for the Top, Right, Left, and Bottom sides

5. Responsive Design

   1. Enables you to hide the desktop access for a specific newsletter and make it for mobile access only when you toggle "hide on desktop" on (slide to the right, and it turns green).