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How did Andy Jenkins do this?

by jon poland
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I see where Andy Jenkins has a new design for his blog at Andy Jenkins Blog. I really like his blog's new subscribe form with the social media links at the bottom and the nav buttons at the top.

Does anyone know if this is a subscribe form that can be purchased or do you think that Andy hired a designer to build this for him?

Thanks.

Jon
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  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    Subscribe is aweber. His "copy" could be done with html or as a graphic.

    The other links are just links with a graphic icon on the left. The Icons don't appear clickable so I would guess they are just images.

    If you are in the war room, someone was kind enough to create these icons that you can use for your own sites.

    You would find those downloads here.

    And they look simply fantastic, and way better than Andys site IMO over here.

    Specifically that snazzy WF icon.
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    • Profile picture of the author jon poland
      Jill:

      Regarding Andy's subscribe form, I believe he uses iContact although I could be wrong.

      I am currently taking a look at iContact and the one complaint that I have is that they do not have much for subscribe forms. The reason I was drawn to Andy's form is because he uses iContact, I like his subscribe form and I am trying to figure out where he got -- or if he had a designer do it.

      Thanks for the information regarding the free social icons in the War Room. I appreciate it very much.

      If anyone has a suggestion for a professional looking subscribe form that is compatible with Wordpress, please let me know. Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
        Originally Posted by jon poland View Post

        Jill:

        Regarding Andy's subscribe form, I believe he uses iContact although I could be wrong.
        When searching his source code, I found "aweber" but upon further investigation I believe you are correct that that particular optin is down with Icontact.

        But he does not have the Warrior Forum Icon I mentioned, so I stand by my initial post regarding the look.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike McAleer
    I don't think it looks all that snazzy. It can easily be done with html. You can probably contact your autoresponder company to ask how to do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author jon poland
    Mike -- our thoughts are on the same plane today. I called iContact and they can do it for $99, without the tabs on the top.

    I know Aweber has a function that allows you to make your own forms. But I just don't like how they look. I suppose the other option is to go to a tech forum and see if I can get a designer to do this.

    I'm not looking for anything spectacular. I like the subscribe form Darren Rowse has at problogger.net. It's clean and it has the social icons below the optin box. That's perfect.
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    • Profile picture of the author sanssecret
      Jon, why would you pay them $99?

      You can download the code for your subscribe form from iContact and then just edit it yourself in any html editor. There are loads of fancy graphics/submit images you can get hold of right here in WF to spruce it up and make it look as snazzy as you like.

      Originally Posted by jon poland View Post

      Mike -- our thoughts are on the same plane today. I called iContact and they can do it for $99, without the tabs on the top.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dexx
        Originally Posted by sanssecret View Post

        Jon, why would you pay them $99?

        You can download the code for your subscribe form from iContact and then just edit it yourself in any html editor. There are loads of fancy graphics/submit images you can get hold of right here in WF to spruce it up and make it look as snazzy as you like.
        You could outsource this via Warrior for Hire, Fiverr, Digital Point, etc. for easily under $20 (to get a kick-ass form designed and have your form embedded inside of it)

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        • Profile picture of the author jon poland
          Originally Posted by Dexx View Post

          You could outsource this via Warrior for Hire, Fiverr, Digital Point, etc. for easily under $20 (to get a kick-ass form designed and have your form embedded inside of it)

          ~Dexx
          Dexx -- I was thinking about Fiverr earlier today, but I completely forgot about having a Warrior do it. Thank you for pointing that out to me.

          I like Sans' suggestion about firing up an HTML editor and doing it myself. The only problem is that I know just enough technology to be dangerous. I've played around with CSS and have managed to tweak some wordpress themes. But what takes most people 15 minutes ends up taking me 4 hours. That is why I was hoping someone could point me to a killer subscribe form widget I could use.

          To everyone -- thanks for the help. I appreciate it very much. I think I'm going to take the advice from Dexx and find a Warrior or someone from Fiverr to do it.

          Regards,

          Jon
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