Slightly nicer Design settings
It is somewhat rare for me to be able to justify working on paying down some technical debt with a rewrite while also improving the user experience, especially for a little-loved part of the application like the various settings pages.
With the recent work to add the new Programming page, I found myself equipped with a host of new front-end components to replace the old way I designed settings. They’re not much to look at now, but it means I can replace a bunch of bespoke HTML and CSS with something that looks consistent across all parts of the application.
The way I could justify retrofitting the new components into an existing page was simple: I wanted to start surfacing a lot of the necessary details you need to set up and customize the design of your newsletter in the application itself, rather than confining those details to documentation or Notion pages.
The result is a settings page that looks much the same, but with more information and detail than before:
Go over to your Design page and check it out!
Previous posts
- Webhooks and the Programming page
- Buttondown in 2021
- Undo send
- Navigation updates
- Open Beta: European mail servers
- Set a custom unsubscription URL for your (sadly no-longer-subscribed) subscribers
- Compare analytics from multiple emails
- Saved draft recipients
- Buttondown's funding of open source software
- Why you need to include a physical address in your newsletter
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Weebly
- Annual subscriptions for paid newsletters
- Reminding folks to confirm their subscription
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Squarespace
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Webflow
- Embedding Instagram photos into your emails
- Customizing your subscription form to tag new subscribers
- How to opt out of analytics and email tracking
- Managing your drafts through the API
- Open Beta: Multiple newsletters
- Easy subscriber filters
- Scheduling emails through the API
- Sending newsletters that get delivered
- May Updates
- April Updates
- March Updates
- February Updates
- Winter Update
- June Updates
- May Updates
- April Updates
- March Updates
- Nicer archive pages!
- Markdown is easier than ever
- January Updates
- 2017: In Review
- Introducing subscriber events
- Learning about unsubscribed users
- A new blog
- Learn more about your subscribers!
- Send emails to certain tags!
- Gravatar support
- Subscriber sources
- Embeddable subscription widget
- Creating drafts via email
- Subscriber and archive search