• Startup & Investor Resources
  • Recent Posts
  • Search
  • Contact Me

Instigator Blog

Lean Analytics, startups, angel investing, product management and more!

Your FeedBurner Email Subscriptions May Be Unreadable

March 15, 2007 by Ben Yoskovitz

Most people subscribe to blogs via RSS feeds. But there are a number that also subscribe via email.

I always recommend that you offer both — RSS feed and email. With FeedBurner it’s a snap.

But recently one of my email readers, Carole Lane from The San Diego Beat, informed me that the font size was insanely small on the emails, making it very hard to read.

It’s not something I ever thought to check.

She sent me a version of one of the emails she received and the font size was definitely too small. So I logged into FeedBurner to see if I could fix the problem. Sure enough, it was possible and easy – but I had never noticed it before.

  1. Once you’re logged into FeedBurner click on Publicize.
  2. Then click Email Subscriptions in the left-hand navigation.
  3. Click on the small link titled Email Branding which you see below:

  4. This will give you a bunch of options including the ability to increase the font size. I changed the headline size to 13 and the body text size to 11. You can also upload a logo, change font types and colors. Make your changes and click Save at the bottom.

Maybe I’m the last person to know about these options but they’re fairly hidden inside FeedBurner, and since email subscription isn’t the biggest priority for bloggers this is the kind of thing that might fall to the wayside for many.

Hopefully these changes makes emails from Instigator Blog more readable and enjoyable for subscribers. And if you use FeedBurner for RSS I would recommend enabling their email subscription option as well – and then fixing the font size.

Filed Under: Blogging

Want more content like this?

Signup for free and you'll get new content as soon as it's available. Thanks!

Ben Yoskovitz

Founding Partner at Highline Beta, a hybrid venture studio and VC firm that works with large, ambitious companies to identify new areas of opportunity through internal and external innovation.

Previously I was VP Product at VarageSale and GoInstant (acq. $CRM), and Founding Partner at Year One Labs.

Angel investments include: Breather, Spoiler Alert, SendWithUs and others.

My bio »

Buy Lean Analytics

Lean Analytics

"Lean Analytics is the missing piece of Lean Startup!" - Dan Martell, founder Clarity

Get the book at leananalyticsbook.com

Get updates

I've moved to Focused Chaos a newsletter focused on startups, investing and more. Please visit there to subscribe and get weekly content.

  • Startup & Investor Resources
  • Recent Posts
  • Search
  • Contact Me
Views expressed here are mine and mine alone.

Copyright © 2023 · Built on the Genesis Framework