Subscription widget is almost popular with all the blogs and its a common practice to have a subscribe widget on your blog’s sidebar to engage your visitors by following on Twitter and reading through RSS. So in this post, you will learn how to add a beautiful subscription widget on your blog’s sidebar. Before getting into the tutorial take a backup of your template for some good reasons.
Step 1: As usual login to your Blogger dashboard and navigate to Design > Edit Html and search for the code ]]></b:skin>
and replace it with the below code
#subscribebox{list-style:none; margin:0px} #subscribebox li{padding:10px 5px; position:relative; margin-top:0; margin-right:0; margin-bottom:5px; margin-left:0; height:64px; opacity:0.75; -moz-opacity:0.75} #subscribebox li:hover{ background-color:#f4f4f4; -moz-border-radius:5px; -webkit-border-radius:5px; border-radius:5px; -khtml-border-radius:5px; opacity:1; -moz-opacity:1; -webkit-transition:opacity 1s ease-out} #subscribebox li img{float:left; position:relative; padding:0px; margin:0px 10px 0px 0px} #subscribebox li h4{margin:-6px 0 3px 83px; font-size:15px; line-height:26px; color:#8B3E2F; text-shadow:1px 1px 0px #fff; font-family:Helvetica,Arial,Verdana; font-weight:bold; clear:none} #subscribebox li p{margin:0 0 0 0; font-family:Trebuchet MS,sans-serif; font-size:13px; letter-spacing:-0.02em; clear:none; text-indent:0px} #subscribebox li a.link{background:none; border:none; top:0; left:0; right:0; bottom:0; width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; z-index:50} ]]></b:skin>
Step 2: Go to Page Elements and click on Add a Gadget on the sidebar and paste this code
<ul id="subscribebox"> <li> <a class="link" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOUR FEED NAME" target="_blank"></a> <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ubwIhqPcR6M/TCHnmSM6jcI/AAAAAAAAA7A/z4X5p_TQt20/s1600/rss_48.png" alt="RSS Feeds" /> <h4>RSS Feed</h4> <p>Subscribe To RSS Feed</p> </li> <li> <a class="link" href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=YOUR FEED NAME&loc=en_US" target="_blank"></a> <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ubwIhqPcR6M/TCHna8KiyVI/AAAAAAAAA64/ACI622bhHTY/s1600/mail_forward_48.png" alt="RSS E-Mail Delivery" /> <h4>E-Mail Delivery</h4> <p>Subscribe To Email for the latest updates right to your email</p> </li> <li> <a class="link" href="http://twitter.com/YOUR TWITTER HANDLE" target="_blank"></a> <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ubwIhqPcR6M/TCHnQ2fRV0I/AAAAAAAAA6w/Kj8nwFNuT_A/s1600/twitter_48.png" alt="Follow Us On Twitter" /> <h4>Twitter</h4> <p>Follow Us On Twitter to join the list of 1000 followers</p> </li> </ul>
Now save it and see the beautiful subscription widget on your blog. If you have any trouble in making it work, drop in your comments.