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Email Stationery Layout Styles

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Everything in the modern world is designed from the chairs we sit on to paper we write on. Nothing is different when it comes to digital media and more specifically Email Stationery.

Adopted Layout Styles

Email Stationery is the term coined in MS Outlook to an Email Letterhead or eLetterhead. There are a variety of methods to acquiring the overall style for your Email Stationery or Email Letterhead. But before you try to produce a working design, I recommend that you consider the different layout styles that the professionals use.

11 Basic Design Styles

There are eleven basic design styles for Email Stationery. Each of these offers a slightly different layout from the previous. The most basic styles simply include either a header or footer in the document, much the same as you would see on a basic letterhead.

Styles give customer choice

The main point for a designer to consider is how best to replicate the traditional printed letterhead in an Email Template. This is where the design styles come in to their own. They provide choice of layout and a decision or discussion point for the end user.

Understanding Layout Styles

The eleven basic design styles fit into three groups. Design Styles with: (1) Headers. (2) Footer. (3) Sidebars (or Margins). Each group obviously contains all combinations of different layouts.

Practical Use …

Having a solid reference point is always good before you start. Especially when the application of the design includes additional elements, like a Disclaimer, Signature, Compliance, Regulation Statements, Memberships to Professional Bodies and so forth.

If you are preparing a brief or you are going to design an Email Letterhead, please see the Email Stationery Design Styles that are documented at Digital Stationery to give you a clear overview before you start.

Douglas Wallace, Designer
http://www.digital-stationery.co.uk