It’s that time again, folks: we’ve added more templates for this month’s v6.3 release. 21 new templates, to be exact.

Here’s what we’ve got for you:
- Newsletter: 12
- Non-profit: 9
While we’ve added another healthy batch of general-use newsletter templates, I think the big blip on the radar here is the expansion of our non-profit category, with easier-to-use, more stable templates.
You’ll find 3 different designs with 3 variations each, but they’ve all got one focus: getting the word out about your cause, and compelling others to help. To that end, each design features prominent donation buttons and social sharing toolbars. Depending on what your message is, you can either be dramatic in style…

…or you can serve up a more muted tone:

Or you can ignore the designs altogether and use your own style; as always, the templates are fully customizable.
That customization is handy, but sometimes you just need to send out content without playing the part of graphic designer. That’s why we continue to expand the ‘Newsletter’ category with a variety of different template options. Need to send a quick note to your subscribers, and want to stay classy? You can use this elegant template:

Maybe you want to send something a little more attention-grabbing in addition to your usual content, like a coupon. We’ve got you covered:

Combined with last month’s batch of 42 templates, and the month prior’s 33 templates, this month’s 21 templates bring us to a nice 3-month total of 95 new email templates. Not too shabby.
We’re already working on next month’s batch, with more non-profit templates, templates tailored for photographers, some that’ll work well for real estate listings, some new Halloween and fall-themed templates, and more coming down the pipe. Keep an eye out.
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Excellent! The demand for more and more classy/professional templates is one thing that MC can always improve upon compared to competitors which is surprising since the design and branding for MC itself is impeccable and Rocket Science started out as a design team. My personal design wish is that the MC templates had more rounded edges rather than the hard, square edges that most templates currently have. Getting there, and this is a great step in the right direction!
Hi Catherine,
The reason most templates don’t have rounded corners as standard is two-fold:
First, if we did rounded corners using images, we’d have to make the background color of the container with rounded corners not editable, so it would always match the images. That puts a design limitation on templates, and it’s pretty far-reaching.
Second, if rounded corners were done using CSS3, they would fail in most clients, because very few actually support CSS3.
That explains why we don’t do it very often right now, but we’re exploring some methods that allow rounded corners AND keep design flexibility.
Thanks so much for your reply, Fabio. That’s nuts that email is barely on CSS 3 for I think I read about CSS5 standards being rolled out for other applications. That’s good to know about the limitations and thank you for your effort to continually improve MC’s templates.
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These templates look really great and so professional. I have just signed up to Mailchimp and starting my campaign. Hopefully I will be able to use some of these wonderful newsletters for my own campaign.
Soo happy to see the new templates!!! Will there be any changes to way you format the emails for the non technical people? Like drag & drop or resizing the text boxes.
Hi Tiffany,
Yep, there’ll be changes in that vein. We’re looking at overhauling the template editing system. It’s a big, complex change, but we’re working on it.
Wonderful! I hope you work on CSS @media tag parsing next, so template designers can target mobile platforms with a single design.
Hey Nick,
I’m looking into implementing @media across the template library, so it is being worked on. It just requires a lot of testing, to make sure we don’t foul anything up on our end.
How do I download the new templates?
Paula,
You can export the templates following the method described in this KB article: Can I Export My Templates?. The only thing you need to do differently is, instead of navigating to my templates, navigate to the template library from within a campaign. From there, you can find the template in the library, click the export icon, and you’ll get the template code.
terrific! they look great! many thanks and much continued success!
Are these new templates available to free members. If they are, how do I access them?
Mark,
The templates are located in the ‘pre-designed’ section of the library, under their respective sections. In the case of these templates, they’re located in ‘pre-designed > non-profit’ and ‘pre-designed > newsletters’.
Sorry for being a bit slow but I don’t know where to find them. From here where do I go? How do I get to the ‘pre-designed’ section?
No worries, Mark.
So, to get to these templates, you first need to create a campaign. You’ll be prompted to select the list you plan to send to, and in the next step, you’ll fill in the necessary campaign info like the title and reply-to email. The third step is where you design a template – in this case, you’d select a template out of the ‘pre-designed’ section of the template library.
Here’s a knowledge base article that explains the entire process better than I probably did.
Thanks Fabio,
I always assumed the per-designed templates were for paid users. Will start using them.
Thanks for the templates. mailchimp needed more templates and you provided the answer.
And more are coming, so stay tuned!
Thanks for the template. You guys rock. God bless – PJ:)
It is very great jobs!
PLEASE, PLEASE , PLEASE HAVE SOME SIMPLE TEMPLATES WITHOUT FACEBOOK AND TWITTER AUTOMATICALLY INCLUDED IN THE DESIGN. SOME PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THESE. I HAVE BEEN TOLD THEY CAN BE REMOVED BUT I CANT FIND HOW TO DO IT SO AM USING OLD TEMPLATES WITHOUT THEM ON. IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE NEW ONES
Hey Mike,
Social service links are hideable in all templates, even the new ones. This Knowledge Base article explains how to hide them.
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Thanks for adding new templates but I really miss some nice travel related templates… :( It’s sad that in many web apps travel related stuff arent getting lot of attention although travel is one of the biggest online market in the world…. Hope for new templates..
Ernesto,
“Travel” is on our list of categories to be added or expanded, so travel-themed templates will certainly be coming. Keep an eye out.
GREAT news; I agree that a Travel-related template would be a great addition; a good excuse to change our current design, which I am not complaining about!! MC rocks!!! :-)
Excelente las nuevas plantillas y mas si se puede enviar desde los celulares, hay que ponerse el delantal y hacer campañas, a ver que pasa!!!
Beautiful! Buuuuuuut, you guys I never received my t-shirt last time you gave them away. Boooohh oooh- ahh ahh!
Guys,
I don’t know if this has been brought up, but the iphone templates still feature the 3GS model – they’re nearly 18 months out of date. I’d love to use them but they make our product look a little dated by doing so.
Any chance of a little iPhone 4 love? Or will we see an update for the upcoming iPhone launch?
Paul
Hi Paul,
Are you looking at the older MindComet iPhone templates? Those were 3rd-party, and did feature the 3GS in the graphic. The new iPhone templates, released last month do feature the iPhone 4. Going forward, the plan is certainly to update the graphic on our templates with each incremental release.
Ah sweet! My bad :( thanks!
Love the new templates!
I like turtles.
I see what you did there.
I am loving the The dramatically-styled “Matter International” template.
Keep ‘em coming! The NFP templates are by far the best yet!
Lovely templates.. keep ‘em coming
Gotta love Mail Chimp! These look awesome, great job!
Awesome, thanks…
Thanks for these new templates. Could you do some templates for sporting clubs? I’d like a template for a softball club.
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Awesome. MailChimp Rocks
Love it great tool and great new looks!
How can I access these new templates? Not finding them in the Design Genius under the Campaign Builder
Thanks
These new templates are sweeter than a ripe banana. I wanted to let you know that our nonprofit put one of them to good use to save a garden. You can see the campaign here: http://t.co/X8fGATy6
We love using MailChimp and I thank God for these easy to use templates.
Once again, big ups to the MailChimp team!