Email Subscription Slider Widget For Blogger

This widget is inspired from Social Subscription Scrolling Slider Widget. It's feed subscription form, which will slide out after scrolling the page little bit. It's based on jQuery, so don't forget to remove jQuery from our code, if your blog already has it.

I created this widget past Saturday for my blog but then I thought that I should share this with you all. As of writing, this widget will appear on our blog as you scroll down a little bit.

Add This To Blogger:

• Go To Blogger > Layout > Add A Gadget > HTML/JavaScript

• Paste following code and click on Save:

<!-- Email Subscription Slider Widget For Blogger by BWidgets -->
 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://widcraft.googlecode.com/svn/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">$(window).scroll(function(){if($(document).scrollTop()>=$(document).height()/4)$("#bwsocialslide").show("slow");else $("#bwsocialslide").hide("slow");});function closebwsocialslide(){$('#bwsocialslide').remove();}</script>

<style>
#bwsocialslide{
  background:#f3f3f3;
  -moz-box-shadow:inset 0 0 1px #333;
  -webkit-box-shadow:inset 0 0 1px #333;
  box-shadow:inset 0 0 1px #333;
  padding:12px 14px 12px 14px;
  width:250px;
  position:fixed;
  bottom:13px;right:0px;
  display:none;
  z-index:3;
  height:65px;
}
.bw-email{
  padding:5px 0 0 5px;
  float:left;
  font-size:1.4em;
  font-weight:bold;
  margin:0 0 10px 0;
  color:#686B6C;
}
.bw-emailsubmit{
  background:#9B9895;
  cursor:pointer;
  color:#fff;
  border:none;
  padding:3px;
  text-shadow:0 -1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.25);
  font:12px sans-serif;
}
.bw-emailsubmit:hover{
  background:#E98313;
}
.textarea{
  padding:2px;
  margin:6px 2px 6px 2px;
  background:#f9f9f9;
  border:1px solid #ccc;
  resize:none;
  box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
  -moz-box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
  -webkit-box-shadow:inset 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
  font-size:13px;
  width:170px;
  color:#666;
}
</style>

<div style="display: none;" id="bwsocialslide">
<a style="position:absolute;top:14px;right:10px;color:#555;font-size:10px;font-weight:bold;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return closebwsocialslide();">(X)</a>

<div class="bw-email">
Subscribe via Email <form action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" id="feedform" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=widgetcraft', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">
<input gtbfieldid="3" class="textarea" name="email" onblur="if (this.value == &quot;&quot;) {this.value = &quot;Enter email address here&quot;;}" onfocus="if (this.value == &quot;Enter email address here&quot;) {this.value = &quot;&quot;;}" value="Enter email address here" type="text" />
<input type="hidden" value="widgetcraft" name="uri"/><input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US"/>
<input class="bw-emailsubmit" value="Submit" type="submit" />
</form>
</div>
</div>
<div class='clear'></div>
<!-- Email Subscription Slider Widget For Blogger by BWidgets -->

In above code, replace widgetcraft with your feed id. You are free to share this widget with your fans and friends. Please attribute the credits back to our blog as the only favor in return. Don't forget to leave a comment.

Display Your Feed On A HTML Page

About every blogger now is using feedburner to publish their feed. By using feedburner, you can get realtime stats and subscriber count. You can even use a custom domain with feedburner. You can display your feedburner feed on Blogger with a simple feed widget but you can't use that widget on your html site. Don't worry, you can still display your feed on a static html or your website by using BuzzBoost. Here we go:

Go To FeedBurner > Click on your feed:

Click on the "Publicize" tab, and then click on "BuzzBoost" in the list at the left side of the screen (see image below). At this point BuzzBoost will give you a number of different options. Choose your preference and click on "Active" button. If you’ve already activated BuzzBoost you’ll see the option to save instead of activate.

Once you choose your settings and activate BuzzBoost you will be provided with the piece of code. Copy the code provided by FeedBurner and paste it into your page wherever you want it to be displayed. You're completely free to use my feeds on your blog:

<script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WidgetCraft?format=sigpro" type="text/javascript" ></script><noscript><p>Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/WidgetCraft"></a><br/>Powered by FeedBurner</p> </noscript>

It's done, you can also style this code by using some css:

.feedTitle {
background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% whitesmoke;
padding: 10px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
border: 1px solid rgb(81, 104, 59);
}
.feedburnerFeedBlock ul {
margin-left:0;
padding-left:0;
list-style-type: none;
}

.feedburnerFeedBlock ul li {
padding: 5px;
border-bottom-width: 1px;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-bottom-color: #E0E0E0;
}

.feedburnerFeedBlock ul li span.headline a {
color: #990000;
text-decoration: none;
display: block;
}

.feedburnerFeedBlock ul li span.headline a:hover {
color: #535353;
}

#creditfooter {
display: none;
}

Setup Feed On Your Blogger

In this quick post, I'm not gonna teach you how to create feed for your blogger, but how to setup correctly in blogger. After doing this your visitors can check your feed out in this url : http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

It's too simple we just have to put your feed url in blogger settings. It's necessary to setup feed otherwise some widgets will not work in your blog.

• First create your blogger's feed at Feed Burner.

• Grab your feed url (Example : feeds.feedburner.com/WidgetCraft

• Go To Blogger > Settings > Other > Post Feed Redirect URL

• Paste your feed url and click on save.

That's IT!

Tip : You can also get feed url by adding 'Subscribe By Email' Widget on your blog.