[Pro] Constant Contact integration?

Has anyone setup a FWP website to add email subscribers directly to your client’s Constant Contact subscriber list? If so, how difficult was that to setup? Any tips I need to know for setting up a FWP site?

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I believe that CC provides a form snippet that you may insert into your page to send a list subscription request to their servers. Have a hunt around their site, and when you find it, use the CrowBar Action to insert it into your page where you want it to appear. (An inline markup item will create invalid code, sadly. A drawn-on-the-page markup item will work, but will not allow your page to flex around the form.)

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…An inline markup item will create invalid code, sadly.

Walter – can you briefly say how so? I’ve inserted inline Markup Items into
inline divs with no problem other than the empty p tags Freeway places if
the div is otherwise empty (taken care of with Remove Paragraph action).


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That’s the issue.

is invalid on the face of it. Browsers auto-correct this to either

or

, but you can’t tell which will happen, and you can’t define what an empty

will look like. Browsers have their own funny ideas about both of these. Validators choke and puke and tell you your socks don’t match.

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Thanks for the reply Walter -

So, placing the Markup item inline into a protective inline div and then
applying the Remove Paragraph action to that div removes the errant p tags
(leaving any inside the markup untouched) and preserving both the Markup
and the flexible inline layout. Sounds like a win to me.


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On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:30 AM, waltd email@hidden wrote:

That’s the issue.

is invalid on the face of it.
Browsers auto-correct this to either

or

, but you can't tell which will happen, and you can't define what an empty

will look like. Browsers have their own funny ideas about both of these. Validators choke and puke and tell you your socks don't match.

Walter


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So it looks like both approaches require an action—either Crowbar or Remove Paragraph. Is one method preferred over the other?


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Is one method preferred over the other?

Walter may have more to say about that, as I think he wrote both actions -
I’m a creature of habits and am happy using Markup items to insert code,
and actions like Remove Paragraphs to force FWP to my bidding. Whatever is
simplest and leaves no (or almost no) tracks in the final output.


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In my opinion, CrowBar is the more elegant approach, but they both work. It’s more a matter of what sort of HTML you want to end up with. If your script (that you are inserting through either the Action or a Markup Item) defines an HTML element, then using Ernie’s approach would “wrap” that element in another element, probably a DIV. The CrowBar would simply remove the surrounding P tag from where the inline markup was inserted, leaving you with one fewer level of nesting in your published code. There’s really no down-side to the method that Ernie uses, another layer of nesting is not going to bother anyone.

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So it looks like both approaches require an action—either Crowbar or Remove Paragraph. Is one method preferred over the other?


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There’s really no down-side to the method that Ernie uses, another layer
of nesting is not going to bother anyone.

Every day I try to be a little less ham-handed. It’s my own personal
version of progressive enhancement. :slight_smile:


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