Features

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Our 2017 Year in Review

Tom BarnettJanuary 21, 2018

As we fly into a brand new year it's time for our annual review of major features shipped over the last 12 months, plus details of our latest enhancements and what to look forward to this year. Read More

Did you know Hail includes free Text Notifications?

Stuart Dillon-RobertsDecember 1, 2017

Its super easy to set up and keep your readers informed on your latest news by using Hail and Twitter. This article explains how to set up free text notifications. Read More

Featured: Free Imagery Available in Hail

Tom BarnettOctober 9, 2017

Good imagery makes all the difference to your stories, but if you don't have anything on hand it's been a time-consuming and sometimes frustrating experience to search for and add high-quality imagery to your articles and newsletters. Not any more thanks to our brand new Pixabay integration! Read More

New Hail Feature: Stats 📊

Tom BarnettSeptember 29, 2017

The hits keep on coming! Hail labs have been on a roll lately with lots of great new innovations being shipped. This month we literally are counting hits with our brand new statistics feature. Read More

Check out Hail’s Brand–New Newsletter Style!

Tom BarnettJuly 24, 2017

This is BIG. Read on for a sneak peek of the Newsletter design 2.0 and get ready to WOW your community all over again. Read More

Hail Tips & Tricks: Quick-links

Tom BarnettMay 3, 2017

Quick-links are a handy way to highlight specific content on your Hail Homepage, Newsletters, Blogs, Yearbooks and Articles. You can add quick-links to Hail articles, publications and any external websites or pages. Read More

Brand New Hail Features & Our 2016 Review

Tom BarnettMarch 1, 2017

With 2017 well underway it's a great time to take stock of what a huge year 2016 was and thank you for your continued use of Hail. Thanks also for the brilliant feedback that's lead to two handy new features: Password-Protected Publications and Hail Help Guides. Read More

Hail Tips & Tricks: 🕘 Scheduled Posts

Tom BarnettSeptember 9, 2016

Ever wanted to publish to social media and send out your email campaign at a later date and time? Now you can! 😀 Read More

Hail Adds Creative Commons Licenses

Tom BarnettAugust 7, 2016

Now you can license your content in Hail with Creative Commons. Read More

Hail Tips & Tricks: Bulk Image Editing

Tom BarnettJuly 25, 2016

We're extremely pleased to bring you our most requested feature yet — bulk image editing! Read More

New, Easier, Shinier Homepage Feature

Tom BarnettJune 8, 2016

We're very pleased to announce our latest update to the Hail Homepage, our mobile-friendly website feature — available to all new and existing customers now! Read More

New Hail Feature: Article Ordering

Tom BarnettMay 15, 2016

You all asked for it and we’ve delivered — you can now choose between having the articles in publications and the homepage sorted by date or rearrange them into any order you like! Read More

NEW Feature From Hail — Blogs!

Tom BarnettApril 17, 2016

Hail labs are on a roll! Our publication offering has just been rounded out with a fourth style which we know you’ll love and find really useful in your content marketing. So now there’s a layout and feature set for every purpose. Read More

Feature Spotlight: Accessibility Mode & Print-friendly Content

Tom BarnettMarch 15, 2016

At Hail we love pushing the (digital) envelope and extending our multi-channel publishing. However, it's important to be future-focussed without bypassing users with accessibility issues such as sight impairment or limited internet access. It's this thinking and your feedback that's motivated our latest features. Read More

New Feature: Vimeo

Tom BarnettJanuary 21, 2016

Right on time for the new school year in the southern hemisphere we've launched support for Vimeo videos! Read More

2015 Year in Review

Tom BarnettJanuary 14, 2016

As we kick into gear for 2016 it's a great time to take stock of what a huge year 2015 was and thank you for your continued use of Hail. Thanks also for the brilliant feedback that has lead to all the following fab features we shipped over the last year. Read More

New Features: Image, Video & Article Sharing

Tom BarnettDecember 6, 2015

Christmas has come early for all you Hail users — we've just shipped a pile of new features to provide faster, easier and better ways to keep your community notified and up-to-date. Read More

New Feature: Homepage Enhancements — Menu, Search & Tags

Hail TeamOctober 6, 2015

Your Hail Homepage now provides easy access to static content with pinned articles and publications, while maintaining a dynamic content-focus with new search and tag filtering of the constantly updated rich site resources. Read More

New Feature: Private Tags 🕵️‍♂️

Hail TeamSeptember 28, 2015

Now you can not only tag your articles for easy organization in the Hail backend and categorization in published formats, you can also apply private tags to help you manage your content more effectively. Read More

💡Did you know: Auto Face Detection

Hail TeamApril 18, 2024

You know when you're using a cool product and some of the features just blow your mind... and you're like... how'd they do that? Read More

Artificial Intelligence vs Intelligent Content 

Lou Donnelly-DaveyAugust 10, 2015

It's not just about designing and creating your website based on artificial intelligence (AI). It's also about basing what makes up your website around intelligent content (IC).  Read More

New Feature: Video  

Lou Donnelly-DaveyJuly 29, 2015

We aim to please and we think our new feature will do just that :)  Read More

Getting started with Hail: Publications

Hail TeamJuly 8, 2015

Communicating with your audience is made easy with our Hail Publications feature. Create and curate your content into beautiful publications with our clever, simple to use platform, then share with those that matter most with the click of a button.  Read More

New Feature: Domains

Tom BarnettMay 25, 2015

Here at Hail we're very excited to announce another powerful new feature — support for custom domains. Read More

Tips & Tricks: Attachments

Tom BarnettApril 14, 2015

Another often requested feature; the ability to attach various standard file types to your content. Read More

The Hail Website - easiest website to keep up to date.

Tom BarnettMarch 24, 2022

A Hail website is a website that creates itself. Read More