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Blog Subscription Button
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User: Don B. 7 years ago
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| I'd like a subscribe button for my blog just like the one that was in iWeb. Thanks. | |
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User: EverWeb Support 7 years ago
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Hi Don, You can add an RSS Subscribe button to your website. To do so, just go to Insert (at the top of your screen) - Button - RSS Subscribe. In the pop-up window select your blog and click OK, that's it! Max ------------------------------- EverWeb Customer Support Submit Tickets or Learn More |
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User: Don B. 7 years ago
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Hi Max, I'm sorry for my confusion on this topic. It is my understanding that in order for an RSS subscribe button to work my users must have an RSS Reader installed. That isn't going to happen. The users of my website are not at all tech savvy. They have no idea what an RSS readers are less how to use one or even where to get one. They are people who own and love basset hounds not your normal computer users. What I want id a SUBSCRIBE BUTTON that will allow people to subscribe and receive an email notice when a new post is made to the blog. It's just like the notice that I receive when someone like you responds to a post I made on this forum. I got an email that you had replied. Thank you. Last edit 7 years ago |
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User: Roddy 7 years ago
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You need a signup form, a data base of subcribers and a method of sending out the bulk emails. The simplest way to do this is to use the EverWeb recommended addon MailChimp. The EverWeb Widgets blogging system allows users to create a responsive blog since most vistirs to a blog will be using a tablet or smart phone. There are two options for the subscribe or signup form - a Subscribe Button which opens the form in a modal and the ASS Sub Nav which can incorporate an archive menu, signup, and a search function. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Don B. 6 years ago
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Hi Guys, I appreciate the replies from both of you. Unfortunately your solutions are far too complicated for me to fully comprehend. As I mentioned in my original post I'm looking for is a subscribe button like the one that was in iWeb. Obviously that's not going to happen. Having said that I have signed up for a Mail Chimp account. OK, I've signed up for mail chimp, found the video on how to set up a subscription form and have the form operational on my website. Now, while this will work for now it does not address my original request. From what I understand I still have to send out emails using Mail Chimp whenever I place a new blog on my website. I could have done that by setting up a mailing list in my email account. Perhaps I don't understand the difference and what having a Mail Chimp account will do. Going back to my original request -- I'd like a subscribe button so that those who subscribe to my blog will automatically receive an email notification. I'd even be willing to pay for a widget that would do that. Thank you as always for all your help. It is appreciated. Last edit 6 years ago |
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User: Roddy 6 years ago
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With MailChimp, those who complete the signup form will be added to your data base and you have send out a bulk email to all subscribers when a new blog post is published. iWeb did not send out an email to those who subscribed to the blog. It had three different subscribe methods... The RSS subscribe button allowed them to read the latest post using their RSS reader - in Safari for example. Blogs with audio or video and podcasts had a subscribe button which download the episode from iTunes to the iTunes app on their computer. Photos added to a blog could be downloaded to the vistor's iPhoto library via the iPhoto subscribe button. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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