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Part 1 of a 4 part tutorial on designing a custom opt-in (sign up) form for your blog. In this tutorial, we'll be creating a form using MailChimp. In Part 2, we embed that form into our blogs. In Part 3, we'll design our forms, then In Part 4, we're going to style our embedded forms using CSS. Find the entire tutorial series on DesignYourOwnBlog.com: http://wp.me/p218Fn-tG
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Design a Custom Opt-in form
DESIGN YOUR OWN BLOG
by Marianne Manthey
without a Plugin
How to
1
DESIGN YOUR OWN BLOG
PART 1
Create a Sign Up Form in MailChimp
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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This Slideshare is Part 1 of a 4 part tutorial
on designing a custom opt-in (sign up) form
for your blog.
The entire tutorial can be found here:
DesignYourOwnBlog.com
Part 1 (this slideshow)
Create a Sign Up Form in MailChimp
• Create a List
• Create a Form
• Get the Embed Code
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part 2 (next slideshow)
Embed the Sign Up Form into your Blog
• Embed into WordPress Widget
• Embed into Blogger Gadget
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part 3 (video)
Design Your Opt-in Form in PicMonkey
• Upload a background “photo”
• Add graphic elements
• Save as a background image
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part 4 (slideshow)
Style the Opt-in Form Design in your Blog
• A few simple CSS lessons – don’t be scared!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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A: Create a List
We need a list before we can create a form.
CREATE A SIGN UP FORM IN MAILCHIMP
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From your Dashboard, click on Lists.
CREATE A SIGN UP FORM IN MAILCHIMP
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Click Create List and go on to the next slide.
CREATE A SIGN UP FORM IN MAILCHIMP
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If you already have a list, click on the down
arrow next to stats and select Sign Up Forms
and skip to slide 14.
Set up your new list, then click Save at the bottom of
the form.
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B: Create a Form
Now your list is set up.
Let’s create a Signup Form.
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Click Signup Forms.
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For the purposes of this tutorial, we’ll choose
Embedded forms.
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You have 3 choices of embedded forms to choose:
Classic…
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Super Slim…
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…and Naked.
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We’ll use the Naked form as it will allow
us to start our CSS styles from scratch.
But first let’s come up with a better form title
than Subscribe to our mailing list.
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How about something like this?
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Next, we want to make sign up as easy as
possible. The less fields, the more likely
people are to Sign Up!
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Let’s reduce the form to show only required fields.
By default, this is just Email.
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Simplify further by removing the required field
indicators.
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Scroll down and check it if you’d like to include
an archive link.*
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The archive link will show prospective
subscribers your past newsletters once you’ve
sent one out. I’m going to leave it checked.
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We’re done creating
our form!
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C: Get the Embed Code
Copy your code and we’ll move
on to Part 2.
Copy this embed HTML code
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Continue the 4 Part Tutorial
THANK YOU
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Thank you for watching Part 1 of How to Design a Custom Opt-in Form without a Plugin!
*All MailChimp links are referral links.
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