Newsletter Sign Up in Contribute 3?

[CraniOcean]

Question. Hi. I've signed up for a newsletter program on a seperate Email
Based Newsletter program, called Constant Contact. It's for small businesses.
I would like to create a newsletter now. Constant Contact can generate an html
code for a sign up box that says, for example, "Sign Up to My Newsletter" on
its site. You are supposed to put this html code on your own website. It can
easily be done with other programs but not with Contribute 3.

I would like to put the sign up box on top of the side bar, above where the
pages for my own site, [url]www.craniocean.com[/url] are listed. It's a very simple
display. Well, when I generate the html code for the sign up box at Constant
Contact, then cut and past it to any page of text on Contribute 3, then hit
publish, all I see is..html code! It doesn't turn into the image that I had
seen generated back at the Constant Contact site.

So I would like to place the sign up box in the sidebar, above where the pages
are listed on my site. And it seems it would be nice to have it on the sidebar
of all the pages of the site, as if built into the template. I didn't create
the template, my absentee webmaster did. However, when I point and click to
the sidebar, nothing happens. It's as if I can't access the sidebar. (Maybe
it's part of the template?)

Constant Contact cannot place the html sign up box on Contribute 3--they don't
seem to know how to do this either, or the person I spoke to on the phone
didn't know how. It's just a simple, "Sign Up for Our Newsletter", and below,
the person would type in his or her email address, and from there it would be
connected to Constant Contact....I guess. So what do you do to cut paste some
html code into the sidebar?

(Again, the html code shows up AS html code in the text page itself, and
doesn't show up as an image)

Thank you
CraniOcean

[Tom Benjamin]

I think you'll need to use an external text editor to do this, Notepad will do
if you're on a Windows system. The text editor will show the HTML code, and you
will have to find the right spot to paste the code you've generated at Constant
Contact. That shouldn?t be too hard as a your web page code is pretty simple:
the pasted code may fit in below:
<td rowspan="2" valign="top">
<div align="left">
In fact it might be best to use the new code to replace
<p class="craniostyle"><a href="index.htm"><br>
</a></p>
which is an empty paragraph above the list of your pages.

[CraniOcean]

Wow, thanks so much for your answer. Not on windows but on Mac OSX. Is there an equivalent answer for Mac OSX and Contribute 3? Thanks for your time, BC.