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How to add Aweber signup to your sidebar
By Mike | November 19, 2007
Todays question comes from a comment on the last post. Here it is:
How do you get your aweber code to show directly under your picture in the side bar? I have tried this many times without success. At what point in the source code of the side bar does the aweber code go?
The easiest way to add your Aweber form is to use a text widget. What usually causes problems is that the standard form is too wide for quite a few theme’s sidebars. It is actually very easy to adapt the size. There are a few things you usually need to change in the HTML form that they create.
The first thing that you need to change is where the name and text box are called in the HTML. The default is to have two cells in a table. Now I have changed the < to [ so that it will post properly.
Name:[td][/td][input type="text" name="name" value="" size="20"/] is the standard code and
Name:[br /][input type="text" name="name" value="" size="18"/]
is the changes I made.
By changing the cell tags to a break tag the name shows above the text box instead of along side of it. You will need the same change to be made on the email area.
The other change that is needed at least for this theme is to change the size from 20 to 18 as the text box size 20 wouldn’t fit without creating a problem. If your sidebar is a little bit larger than this theme you won’t need to do that.
You can move the text box to any point by dragging it within the dashboard. Just click dashboard, presentation, widgets and you can drag it into the proper positon.
As always your comments and questions are welcomed. Add a comment or use the survey link at the top.
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November 20th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Well all right,
I am going to give this a shot right now.
I will post and let you know how it turns out.
Thanks for the detailed answere.
November 20th, 2007 at 3:16 am
Boy that was a disaster. I messed something up in the sidebar code and lost everything in the sidebar. Picture, calender, pages,etc,etc.
I’m one of those people that should not be allowed anywhere near the html code.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:02 am
Mike,
I’m not speaking for anyone else, but it seems 1 or 2 things were skipped while answering this question. And, don’t worry… because I’m guilty of doing the sam thing myself sometimes.
1. Where should we paste the html within the source code?
2. You said it’d be eaiser to use a text widget, but I’m not sure how a text widget helps me add .html into my blog.
Can you break this process down into more detail… or create a quickie video… showing us newbies how to create this form (using formmail) & then how to place it into our blogs using your text widget?
Thanks & keep up the good work.
Lee
November 20th, 2007 at 8:13 am
First to Ron if you contact me direct I will look at what you did. If you remove the text widget that should fix the problem.
I would recommend you use a HTML editor and get it to look good there first so it can be copied and pasted.
For Lee - The answer is specific to using Aweber which is what was being addressed. Using widgets has been addressed previously on here so that wasn’t gone into in detail.
I do have videos in my coaching course that walk people through exactly what to do with this.
Finally I would never recommend or give instructions for using form mail because using anything other than one of the top 3 autoresponders would hurt your business. There are 3 things that you actually need to pay for and the very first thing is a quality autoresponder preferrably Aweber but Email Aces and Get Response also have good delivery rates but not the features for bloggers that Aweber does.
Having used others and tried my own ar I found it cost me much more than the money I saved and would hope to prevent others from making the same mistake.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Great Post and lots of help as always…
If more on the Net were as concientious as
“the Ole’ Bald Guy” there would be more success stories.
Thank You Mike fo all you do.
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August 30th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I do not believe this
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:19 am
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your useful information.
To compliment with your post, I’ve did my plug-in to do this job easier.
It will put the opt-in form on the side-bar and make the opt-in form pop-up when visitor open your blog.
I believe it useful for your readers as well. It’s free!
Check it at : http://www.fasterinternetmarketing.com/FasterIM-OptIn/
Thanks!
Seree W.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:58 am
@Seree - I will check this but will warn people that there is an upgrade for full functionality and thus it may not be free.
This is not necessarily bad but do want full disclosure here.
July 19th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
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