Life is grand

The last website I’d think of reviewing would be a newsletter system but Toddle is just too good an example of good website design to pass on by. It is also part of the Tuesday Push series.

Registration is simple; enter your email address. It takes you straight into the system. No passwords, no confirmation emails or age, gender, favourite movie and colour boxes to tick. Toddle does not really need a password, it works by sending the entered email the newsletter which you then forward on. So anyone “hacking” in would only send an email to themselves or to one other person.

Once in you can start creating your newsletter straight away. There is no save button or listings of previous newsletters to choose from (though you can have that if you want). From beginning to end you are working on one newsletter and it is all done from one page. Each template has a few sections with an image, header and body text. Fabulously simple and eminently usable.

Toddle isn’t for power users; it doesn’t have an address book (you send the newsletter from your email client), the templates are set and there is no scheduled sender mechanism. Toddle doesn’t need any of these nor should it ever complicate itself with further features.

For someone like me Toddle does everything I could want in a newsletter system. Beyond being a newsletter system Toddle is an excellent lesson in good website design.

Good work lads.

Tags: newsletter, Review, toddle, tuesdaypush

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