Getresponse issues with code

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I am a marketing exec on the whole so I usually only dabble with coding to be honest.

I signed up to getresponse as I was impressed by the offerings there for autoresponders and we need to send auto-emails to enquirers. I tried both landing pages and webforms on their WYSIWYG editor function and didn't get along with it/none of the templates were even close to what I needed so I used Dreamweaver to edit one of our html email campaigns for the general design which gave me the what I now have. My limited coding experience has got me as far as this website, which looks generally how I want it to. I have inputted the code into getresponse and created a temporary live page:

Resales landing page

However, when I asked getresponse for help getting further they just sent me the below code and suggested that an experienced coder could modify this to my needs.

<form action="http://www.getresponse.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi" method="post"
accept-charset="UTF-8">
<input type="text" name="subscriber_email" size="14"/>
<input type="text" name="subscriber_name" size="14" value="Subscriber"/>
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe" />

<input type="hidden" name="campaign_name" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="confirmation" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="getpostdata" value="get" />
</form>

Inexperienced as I am I can't get my head around how to do it without probably starting from scratch. The input types certainly don't fit what I need! Do you have any advice? I've hit a wall and wanted to have something basic up and running for Friday...

Thanks in advance
#website design #code #getresponse #issues
  • I am not familiar enough with Getresponse to give you a definitive answer but based on many posts around here they seem to have similar features as other, for example, Aweber.

    In my aweber account when creating a form I have the possibility to create many different additonal fields; practically I could make a form like the one you posted with text, radio, checkbox etc. fields...

    Not clear whether you want the form in a html email (Why would anybody want that?) or on your own (landing) page. If the latter, you first create the form and then copy/paste the form code into the html of your landing page.

    Don't make it more complicated than it should be!
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    • Hi! This is for a landing page. I was sort of hoping there may be a quicker way to configure than starting making a form from scratch which comes out how I don't like it looking...
  • Wrong assumption. Like any business, Getresponse is also out there to serve the needs of many "regular" mainstream users of the auto-responder services.

    When you need a very specific customization that is mainly outside of the mainstream use... you either master the code or quickly hire a pro to do it.

    If you are indeed a "marketing exec" why the heck are you trying to do something that you suck at? Don't you have a better way to use your time and instead hire someone for a few bucks to do this coding thing for you?
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    • I signed up as the service seemed simple for me to use. The main thing I need is autoresponding! I had been looking for advice on here to avoid hiring anyone if possible if anyone could point me in the direction of the right information but if it is going to be way too complex that is fine, I was just looking to find out general thoughts.
  • What Istvan said.

    However there are two help documents that might help, if you are going to try and do it on your own:

    How do I create HTML web form code from scratch? - GetResponse Support and
    http://support.getresponse.com/uploa...IY-WebForm.pdf

    Good luck
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    • Thanks MickK - I will have a look in the morning
  • I use this code for GetResponse. You can put here more inputs.

    <!-- GetResponse form -->
    <form accept-charset="utf-8" action="https://app.getresponse.com/add_contact_webform.html" method="post">
    <div class="forms">
    <input name="name" class="name" id="name" type="text" value="Enter Your Name" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.val ue='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultV alue;" />
    <input name="email" class="email" id="email" type="text" value="Enter Your E-Mail" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.val ue='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultV alue;" />
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="BUTTON" /> <!-- Web Form Button Text HERE "value name"-->
    <input type="hidden" name="webform_id" value="123456"/> <!-- Web Form ID HERE instead 123456 -->
    </div>
    </form>
    <!-- Type Web Form ID in 'src' instead 123456 to Java Script HERE -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://app.getresponse.com/view_webform.js?wid=123456&mg_param1=1"></script>
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    Getresponse issues with code

    I am a marketing exec on the whole so I usually only dabble with coding to be honest. I signed up to getresponse as I was impressed by the offerings there for autoresponders and we need to send auto-emails to enquirers. I tried both landing pages and webforms on their WYSIWYG editor function and didn't get along with it/none of the templates were even close to what I needed so I used Dreamweaver to edit one of our html email campaigns for the general design which gave me the what I now have. My limited coding experience has got me as far as this website, which looks generally how I want it to. I have inputted the code into getresponse and created a temporary live page: