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Standard Templates
Standard templates are predefined templates for newsletters, that you may use directly. The title of the included standard templates begins – who wonders – with standard. They all are responsive. That means, that they look well even on small displays, which occurs on mobile devices. Nevertheless standard templates can be individualized widely. To keep out of harm's way I suggest to copy a provided template and then adjust. If an adjustment is not possible with one provided template: Perhaps it is possible with another?
At the left you make the adjustments, at the right you see a preview of the template, that will be refreshed by clicking to Refresh preview. A refresh also will be done, if the template will be saved.
Tab Generals
Here you do the general settings to the template. The template gets a name and a description, you set the width of the newsletter as also the font size, the space and the colour for font and background of the various sections. Here you also may select a little image, a so called thumbnail. This image is shown in the list of the templates as preview and in the tool-tip at the select list, if you create a newsletter.
Caution:
This preview image is not identically to the preview at editing a template! The preview while editing is dynamically and can be refreshed again and again, while the thumbnail is a static image, in example created with a screenshot.
This preview image is not created automatically by BwPostman! You can create such a preview image, if you take a screenshot of the newsletter. You quite may take the screenshot from the preview while editing the template. Before version 3.0.0 BwPostman looks for preview images at the folder <Joomla-installation-directory>/images/bw_postman, since version 3.0.0 at <Joomla-installation-directory>/images/com_bwpostman. Here you have to upload the saved image. Uploading you can do with Media Manager if Joomla!®, which you will find at Content → Media Manager.
Tab Header
Here you define the header, with which the newsletter begins. It consists by logo and/or text. You can select whether show only the logo, only the text or both in the header of the newsletter.
If you chose logo and text, then alignment Left or Center means, that the logo is shown at left and the text at right. Right means, that the logo appears at right and the text at left.
Of you select only logo or only text, then alignment works as expected.
The text can be entered in two lines, for which you may select different font sizes. The colours for font, background and shadow of header you also chose here. Shadow only works with standard template Deep Blue.
Tab Intro
In the newsletter then follows the intro with a heading and a text. The text can be personalized. Only place the cursor to the desired place in intro text and click to the button [FIRSTNAME], [LASTNAME] or [FULLNAME].
You can select, if the intro will be used or not. Furthermore you can change the heading as well as the text in newsletter at the tabs HTML-Newsletter and Text-Newsletter.
Tab Articles
After that the single articles follow. The single articles may be divided by a divider, for which you may select a colour. In addition you can set, if the author of the article and the creation date shall be shown.
You may add a button Readon for each article. This is useful, if you only want to show a teaser in Newsletter to read the full article at your website. For this button Readon you can select colour of font, the button and the shadow..
If there are changes to a standard template afterwards, that impacts the article (in example width of newsletter, background colour of articles, font colour, show author and so on), at an existing newsletter you have to switch to another template and switch back to this template or you have to change selected content, to adopt the changes. Unfortunately there is no other solution feasible.