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Advice Needed For AWeber Forms

Postby Brad.Sonya Dark on Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:26 am

Im having heaps of trouble with aweber forms in single blog posts, "Not the ones you put on every post in a footer plugin or something.

I use different forms on different posts, but I'm finding that getting a nice looking form on a post is next to impossible!
I use dreamweaver and place the form into a table then make the changes and it doesn't look to bad "in dreamweaver" but when I upload it to blog things go kookey!

The height of the form is the problem? I have tried lots of different things to get the height down but its just plain insubordinate and refuses to obey its master :twisted:

Anyone now any tricks or little secrets?

I am not sure how to do it without tables? Maybe CSS but thats going to be a brain-strain.
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Re: Advice Needed For AWeber Forms

Postby Chuck Bartok on Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:55 am

What Blog Venue are you using?

and are you entering the Java script or complete HTML code?
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Re: Advice Needed For AWeber Forms

Postby Steve Rodgers on Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:13 am

This can be done with some simple CSS. Don't worry, I'm gonna give you the code ;)

On my blog I use this in my sidebar, but I understand that you would like this on a single post. No problem.

Insert this into your blog's stylesheet. Put it at the bottom or somewhere that you'll know where it is (because it's an addition to the stylesheet and not part of the usual functionality):

#bluebox { background: url(http://jamroommanifesto.com/imgers/blogoptin2blue.gif);
width: 255px; height: 308px;margin: 0 auto;
padding-left:25px;padding-right:25px;
background-repeat: no-repeat; float: none; clear: none;text-align:center;
}

You'll notice that I use an image for the background that the form will sit inside of. In this case it's blue. You don't have to use it, but you are more than welcome to. Just go to http://www.jamroommanifesto.com/imgers/ ... n2blue.gif in your web browser and save it to your desktop and upload it to your website's image folder.

NOTE: If you use a custom image, you'll need to adjust the height and width in the CSS to reflect your image's size. (You'll also need to change the path of the background image to match where your image is located on your server)

To make this appear in your blog post make a div tag in the post like this: <div id="bluebox"></div>

Paste your AWeber code in between the div tags.

To see how this looks on my site visit http://www.jamroommanifesto.com (just pretend it's in the blog post and not in the sidebar.)

You'll notice that I have a changed my text color to blue and that I've also made a custom submit button using a background image as well.

Just give a yell if you'd like to do something similar.

Hope this helps,
Steve
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Re: Advice Needed For AWeber Forms

Postby Steve Rodgers on Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:28 am

Oops. I should have checked your page before posting.

I looked at your site and noticed are using script for the aweber code. (firebug plugin... love it)

I am using an html form in mine. Not sure how script will affect my suggestion.

Your site looks great btw.

As far as your form. Yo may want to ad a style to your table:

<table style="text-align: center;">

This may fix the problem with the submit button being pushed of to the right like it currently is.

Also, when you think you've corrected the problem, sign up for Adobe Browser Labs to see how it looks in other browsers. I'm using Firefox and your submit button is off to the right while the entire table is pushed left. The form fields are centered, but the labels are left.

You could have the labels side by side with the fields by putting them on the same table row in two table data cells. <tr> <td>name label here</td> <td>name field here</td> </tr>
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Re: Advice Needed For AWeber Forms

Postby Brad.Sonya Dark on Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:59 pm

Thanks Steve & Chuck:

Special thanks to Steve, I know it takes time to put that sort of advice together and its really appreciated I'll have a chop at it it later today...

Thanks again fellas.

PS. That's an awesome PPC course Steve. I have it and it's saved me thousands on PPC.
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