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[Daniel Attard Company: Neways Worldwide Contribution Level: 3]

Hey guys and gals,

Does anyone know a thing or two about optin form designing? A friend of mine has iContact but its sign up forms are really dull. I have tried the MaxBlogPress plugin but it does not work on my sidebar for some reason. Any ideas, tips?

Daniel Attard

[Adil Shamim Contribution Level: 4]

Hey guys and gals,

Does anyone know a thing or two about optin form designing? A friend of mine has iContact but its sign up forms are really dull. I have tried the MaxBlogPress plugin but it does not work on my sidebar for some reason. Any ideas, tips?

Daniel Attard

Daniel..Have you tried the GETRESPONSE opt in forms../?


Adil

[Daniel Attard Company: Neways Worldwide Contribution Level: 3]

He wants to stick with iContact rather then anything else thats why.

[Richard Bravo Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 9]

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Daniel the iContact forms were meant to be super simple.
Most of the time designers/webmasters will integrate the code into custom form styles.
This is why you don't see the fancy form builders like Aweber or GetResponse.

You also have the increasing features in wordpress themes and plugins like popup domination, list eruption, etc., that just need a simple code snippet and they do the rest to format the form.

You might want to try the MBP Optin Form plugin instead of SubscriberMagnet:
http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mofa/

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[James Bennett Company: Team Beachbody Contribution Level: 3]

Hey Daniel,

The guys over at PopUP Domination also have a free plugin called Sidebar Domination....

Its not as customizable as others, but it does look better than the generic forms from icontact.....

[Daniel Attard Company: Neways Worldwide Contribution Level: 3]

Cheers for the answers!

@Bravo...For some reason it does not show on my sidebar when I put it although it appears in posts. When I put it as widget on the sidebar it does not. Any solutions?


Daniel Attard

[Richard Bravo Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 9]

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Its probably a code problem then, perhaps a missing div tag or something.
In most cases thats what Ive found to be the culprit.

I can look at the code is you want to post it here.
Just use the "CODE" tag from the post editor.

~RB
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[Daniel Attard Company: Neways Worldwide Contribution Level: 3]

You mean this Rich?

<?php if(function_exists("ofa_insert_optin_form")) ofa_insert_optin_form("tracking code");?>
<!--OptinFormAdder--> <!--OptinFormAdder:tracking_code-->

[Richard Bravo Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 9]

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Is that the actual code you're posting in your sidebar widget?
It looks incomplete...

If not, post the actual specific code you are using; exactly as you're posting into your sidebar.

Put it in a code tag so nothing gets stripped...

Code: Select all

Like this

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[Roger Rohm Contribution Level: 1]

Hi Daniel
I had the same issue with icontact.
I solved it by using some free software from Kompozerhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozerwindows/, a WYSIWYG editor.
You can copy and paste the form from icontact. Copy the HTML file of the form to the HTML screen in Kompozer. You can then work in the visual screen and add images and text as you like. Then paste the html into a text widget on your sidebar.
icontact message builder is braindamage to work with, so you can copy the templates to Komposer work with them and paste the HTML back into icontact.
I hope this helps, If you need to contact me, my infomation is on my profile page.
Cheers