Add a Cool Feed Icon and Subscription Email Form To The Sidebar of Your Blogs (ll)

Cool-RSS-Email-Form As I had promised in my previous post, I am now sharing the trick of adding a beautiful subscription form to the sidebar of your blogs. Check out my email form just below the RSS Feed Icon at my sidebar on your right..

A Subscription Email form is more important than a RSS feed Icon itself. People often love to receive your post Updates in their email inbox rather than in a reader. So make sure you make your Email From as eye appealing and eye catching as possible. So today we will again learn how to plant the TNT of an Email form, so lets get to work!

Follow these steps,

  • Log into your feedburner account
  • Click on the Publicize button and then click on Email Subscriptions link as shown below,

subscription-email-form

 

  • Then drag down the page until you see a HTML code, as shown below

email-form-code

  • Copy the HTML code for the email form and paste it in a WordPad or Notepad. The  code may look like the one below,

<form style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center;" action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=TntByStc', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true"><p>Enter your email address:</p><p><input type="text" style="width:140px" name="email"/></p><input type="hidden" value="TntByStc" name="uri"/><input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US"/><input type="submit" value="Subscribe" /><p>Delivered by <a href="http://feedburner.google.com" target="_blank">FeedBurner</a></p></form>

Please search for the Green and Red texts as shown above in the HTML code that you just pasted in a notepad or WordPad.

Note that the red text in your code will be something like this,

http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=Your-FeeD-Title

The end part of the URL above will contain your feed title, so look carefully for this URL in the code that you pasted in notePad

  • Now Log into your Blogger account and go to Layout > Page Elements

page-elements

Then Click on Add a Gadget

add-a-gadget

Then Choose HTML/JavaScript

html-javascript

  • Now Copy and paste the code below into HTML/JavaScript widget.

 
<div style="border: 1px solid DodgerBlue; padding: 5mm;">
<center><img src="URL of Email Icon"/></center>
<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:small;">Subscribe by E-mail & receive free updates of these cool Tips N Tricks straight to your inbox!</span>

<form action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" style="padding: 3px; text-align: center;" target="popupwindow" method="post" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=TntByStc', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true"><center style="font-weight: normal">Enter your email address:</center><p><center><input type="text" style="width:140px" name="email"/></p></center><center><input type="hidden" value="TntByStc" name="uri"/><input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US"/><input type="submit" value="Subscribe" /></form></center>

NT:- The Code in your notepad will be used only to get some info out of it. Our main code is the code above.

Please adjust the code according to your preferences in the following way,

  1. DodgerBlue : This refers to the colour of the frame/outline surrounding the Email form, You can change it to any colour. For example, White, Black, Red , Green etc.
  2. URL of Email Icon : This refers to the URL of your Email Icon. Please first choose a Email Icon of your choice by clicking here Once you have download your Email Icon, upload it to Photobucket and get the URL for it. Then simply replace the text URL of Email Icon with your Email Icon URL.
  3. http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify : Replace this text with a similar URL in your code that you had copied in a notepad.
  4. http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=TntByStc : Replace this URL with the URL in the notepad code.
  5. The bolded Black Text refers to the text that appears below your Email Icon and above Email form. You can change it to anything that suits your blog topic.
  6. TntByStc: Replace this text with your Feed Title. I hope you know what’s your feed title if not then read this post
  7. Subscribe : This is the text that appears on the Email button. You can change it to anything you like. For Instance: Submit, Hit Me!, Join Me! etc.

Once you have adjusted the code according to your preferences, simply click the Save button in the HTML/JavaScript Widget.

Now visit your blog to see a pro looking Subscription Email Form hanging on your sidebar :)

Just like the one below,

email-subscription--form

I hope it works for you. Enjoy!

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16 comments

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  1. Thxs a lot dear for that beautiful 3mail frm trick. I was Googling it for week$ till I found you!
    YOur words forced me to subscribe to your newsletters. :D

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  2. hi Aquile,

    You are always welcomed and yes thks for subscribing. I never knew that my words can be that powerful :D

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  3. thnx alot for your instruction
    i follow it
    it make my blog look great
    please keep on

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  4. @ha198000

    You are always welcome. I am glad that my posts are helping you :)

    @Peace And love

    Thks for that precise comment :D

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  5. Very informative step by step tutorial.
    Will definitely be back here to check your other tips as.
    Even I'm not on Blogspot, I will try this tutorial on my WP blog

    Thanks for sharing.

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  6. Sir first of all great site and stuff in here. I did everything but when somebody tries to register it shows a page saying that "The feed does not have subscriptions by email enabled".

    When i go to feedburner under publicize-email subscriptions, it shows the service as enabled. I just did the whole process minutes ago, creating a feed cause i didn' t have one, enabling the email e.t.c. is it possible that it needs time for their system to activate?

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  7. @anonymous,


    Did you change the link http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=TntByStc with your own FEED link? Just change tntbystc with your feed title and things will surely work

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  8. just wanted to thank you for the tutorial!!! It was just what I was looking for and thanks to your clear instructions I was able to tweak it perfectly for my blog http://any-given-moment.blogspot.com/. If you come and visit you will see I would never have been able to do that without your help! Thanks again! I'll certainly be back.
    t.j.

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  9. @T. J

    I find it really encouraging to have read your comment thanks for that. The widget looks just nice with your blog layout. You have an interesting content.

    I have shared a new Subscription widget which you can also be of interest to you. Read this post -> http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2009/10/subscription-email-form-for-blogger.html

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  10. It dosen't work on my blog. Gives sites.google restricted. Is there a way to resolve this

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  11. @Peace

    Have you uploaded the images at sites.google.com? If yes then kindly upload it either at blogger or mydatanest.com. It will work perfectly then. Google sites does not support direct linking to images.

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  12. Opening your pages, saw the announcement above. Here's your brother praying for you. May Allah Bless you. Get Well soon, Mohammad, Insya Allah. Sorry for sending the message through this comment form.

    Ahmad Khoirul Azmee.

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  13. This one worked fine for me,thanks for the tip.Do we have any post with how to add buttons at the bottom as you have blue buttons at the bottom for previous,home and Next.Also how to do the same at home page to show an icon instead of the text click to read more.Also I used the image that you have on this site for email form if any issues just let me know I will change it however with time also will keep changing it looking for animated email for this.Once again thanks

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  14. A good quality article, thanks for the information, hopefully we delivered interwoven relationship, best wishes from Indonesia blogger

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  15. How do we do it now that it's no longer run by FeedBurner?

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  16. @Paula

    It still works in feedburner in exactly the same way. You can try our latest RSS widegts instead:
    http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/05/create-wordpress-subscription-form.html

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