Dalton News

Dalton Blast Email Messages Get New Look and Features

Welcome to a new look for the new Sunday Blast and other types of Dalton bulk email messages. There were many considerations in these updated designs that are styled to follow the look and features of the recently redesigned Dalton public website:

- Modern, elegant, and clean
- Designed for better fit and readability on mobile and smaller screens
- Additional link menus to relevant pages
- Menu to jump down to a selected category
- New Snaps and Snippets photos and videos section

We hope you'll enjoy these new designs. Read on for a more in-depth overview.

New 2017-18 Pushpage Designs

About the new designs:

  • Modern, elegant, and clean design:
    • All designs styled from new public website
    • Simple, modern design, inspired by our design consultant's recognition of the uniqueness the Dalton logo that uses Helvetica typeface (san-serif, signals progressive/modern)
    • Dominant black and gray with Dalton Blue featured in headlines and links throughout
    • Reduced number of images for better readability
    • Simpler business-like formatting.  
    • Footers and headers approximate the public website and are customized to fit template theme
  • Designed for better fit and readability on mobile and smaller screens:
    • Larger standard typeface
    • Templates are fully responsive:
      • Notices are industry-standard 600 pixels wide
      • Two-column messages fold down to one column on smaller screens
  • Menu Links in Headers and Footers:
    • Website Omni Nav Links featured in headers and footers
    • Customized by on template - Support Dalton, Contact Us and Login on all pages. Building Project on many additional links where applicable.
    • Clicking logo always leads to Dalton Homepage.

Sample Templates

Notices:

  • 2017 | NOTICE
    • Dalton true blue issue title and ownership logo.
    • Simple and reflective of the website header and footer
    • Larger Helvetica (brand consistent) font for better readability on smaller devices
    • Fully responsive on all screens
    • Social Media links point to current official school channels
    • Includes photo sample - we can determine if this is useful or not.
    • We will consider additional custom Notice templates for areas of school such as Athletics.
  • 2017 | THE DALTON PA
    • Same as above
    • Custom links in header and footer
    • Links and social media reference PA Social Media and website Resources page.
  • 2017 | COLLEGE OFFICE
    • Standard Notice type
    • Banner and Footer include links to the Private College Office page.
    • Included Detail Page template and teacher recommendation download sample
  • 2017 | ATHLETICS
    • Interchangeable banners per sport
    • Custom header and footer
  • 2017 | MESSAGE FROM ELLEN C. STEIN
    • Customized Banner
    • Exchangeable banners for message from Ellen C. Stein and Board Chair Alan Klein
    • Includes photo sample
  • 2017 | DIVISIONAL UPDATES
    • A serial blast template with updates from the three divisions.
    • Designed to include detail pages
    • Custom headers point to the divisional resources pages

Invitations:

  • 2017 | INVITATION MODERN
    • Clean and modern invitation
    • For less formal/fun events
    • Personalized
    • Gives sample RSVP link
  • 2017 | INVITATION TRADITIONAL
    • More formal/traditional style using Times New Roman fonts throughout
    • Used for more solemn events, like memorials
    • Footer typefaces also converted

News or Announcements Blasts

  • 2017 | GO FORTH UNAFRAID Alumni News & Events
    • Serial blast format
    • Aggregate of News stories previously written and added with clickthroughs from the website for better integration and wider distribution
    • Easy access to to the latest Connections Magazine
  • 2017 | SUNDAY BLAST
    • New & Noteworthy News is an aggregate of news from the prior week.
    • New Jump Menu to lower sections at the top
    • Larger News thumbnails
    • New Snapshots & Snippets section for recent Photos and Video
    • New "Got Photos or Videos?" section prompts media and provides links for contributing photos and video
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