Partner with the Bulletin

You can easily add a small subscription form on your site for the Web Evangelism Bulletin - the twice-monthly Christian ezine which equips and informs Christians about online outreach, page promotion techniques, and web tips. Alternatively, you can actually syndicate the contents of the current issue of the Bulletin into your own site.

The subscription form

Here's a great way to provide your Christian site visitors with additional resources and ideas for online evangelism, site publicity and more. Just copy/paste the code on this page into an appropriate place on your own webpage, using a text editor, or the text-editing option (i.e. where you adjust the base HTML code of a page) of an HTML editor. Do not drop the coding into a WYSIWYG editor interface, or it will convert < > angle brackets into something else and the code will not work.

This code creates a basic subscribe form:

<form onsubmit="return emailcheck(this)" style="margin:1px;padding:0px;" action="http://guide.gospelcom.net/resources/formaction1.php" target="_blank" method="post">
<input type="text" name="email" onFocus="this.value='' " value=" write email here" size=20> <input type="hidden" name="lists"><input type="submit" style="background-color:silver;font-size:80%;font-weight:bold;" value=" subscribe ">
</form>
<script language="javaScript" src="http://guide.gospelcom.net/scripts/emailchecker.js" type=text/javascript>
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
function stoperror(){
return true
}
window.onerror=stoperror
</script>

The width of the form is adjustable (currently set as size=20, and you can also vary the style of the form, and the size or color of the subscribe button, using CSS.

It also includes a Javascript form-checker script - this prevents people from pressing the button without first adding a valid email address.

Description

Naturally, you will also need to add a description of the form, and perhaps a personal recommendation for the Bulletin. It could appear above or below the form, and might be something like 'we recommend' or 'our partner'

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-size:70%;">we recommend . . .</span> <span style="color:red;font-size:80%;font-weight:bold;">Web Evangelism Bulletin<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;- every 2 weeks</span>
<span style="color:#9F141A;font-size:70%;font-weight:bold;">news | ideas | page promotion</span>

If you wish, include the 'archives' and 'privacy' links too:

<span style="font-size:80%;"><a href="http://guide.gospelcom.net/resources/bulletin.php">Previous issues</a> |
<a href="http://guide.gospelcom.net/resources/privacy.php">Privacy</a></span>

Putting those together, your form might look something like this, with whatever variations of wording, font color and size, form background, or button color, that you wish.

    we recommend . . .
Web Evangelism Bulletin
     - every 2 weeks
news | ideas | page promotion

Previous issues | Privacy

Scroller

You can also add a scrolling 'latest contents' box as displayed at the end of this page, using this code:

<span style="color:red;font-size:12px;font-weight:bold">Latest Bulletin covers:</span><br> <iframe height="50" width="150" src="http://guide.gospelcom.net/resources/bulletinscroller.php" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>

If you use the scroller, or include the archives/privacy links under the form, you can ensure that these open in a new browser window by adding extra code to your page:

• by adding <base target="_blank"> to the head of your page.You must also change your own internal navigation links on that page to the format <href="myotherpage.html" target="_top"> or they will open in a new window too.
• or by adding a block of Javascript in your page head, plus a small code at the very end of the page. then copy/paste this code according to the instructions it contains:
  // ADD THIS JAVASCRIPT TO THE HEAD OF YOUR PAGE, WHICH CONTAINS THE // GUIDE INSERT CODE: // CHANGE "yoursite.com" to your own site domain name <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- var myDomain = "yoursite.com"; function ExteriorLinkTargetMod() { for(var i = 0; i < document.links.length; i++) { var string = document.links[i].href; if ( string.indexOf(myDomain) < 0 & string.indexOf("http://") >= 0 ) { document.links[i].target = '_blank'; } } } //--> </script> // ADD THE FOLLOWING CODE TO THE *very* END OF YOUR PAGE, JUST BEFORE THE BODY TAG CLOSES: <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- ExteriorLinkTargetMod(),w.focus(); //--> </script>

If you choose this feature, include a note on your page to explain that external links open in a new window. Ready-made wording can be inserted above your Bulletin content by adding this extra insert code above the main insert code: <script language="JavaScript" src="http//guide.gospelcom.net/scripts/bullmessage.js" type=text/javascript>
</script>

Syndicate the content

You can syndicate Bulletin content directly into your website in two ways:

• display each issue of the Bulletin within your own site, using the insert code which is displayed at the end of this page. Just copy/paste this code onto your own page, and each new issue of the Bulletin will automatically display on that page.

• insert a 'taster' paragraph to the latest Bulletin on your home page (or any page). This can link either to a syndicated version of the entire Bulletin, carried on your site (as in previous point) or the onward link can be to our site. More details.

Who is doing it already?

Thank you for considering a partnership like this. CCCI's Evangelism Toolbox and Global Technology Office are among a number of groups already offering the Bulletin this way.

If you choose any of the options on this page, we will add your site to our partner link page, which will increase your 'link popularity' and therefore search engine page ranking of your page. Just tell us the URL of your page that carries the form.

Printed from Web Evangelism Guide © 2008
Can be freely reproduced in print in any non-profit situation with attribution to web-evangelism.com. This page content can also be inserted into your own web-page by copying a simple Javascript insert code into your page - explained in the online version of this page: guide.gospelcom.net/resources/
Please do not copy the text of this page onto your own web-page - search engines do not like hard-copy duplicate content on different sites.
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