Adding an email Subscription

With an email subscription your readers will get an email telling them each time you update your blog.

I think it would be a great way to encourage contributions from parents/whanau as they will quickly know when you update.

There are two ways of doing it- the old way which is really complicated or the easy way. You decide which you would prefer to do. The easy way is first and the hard way is second as I would suggest that most people will chose the easy way.

Easy Way....

Log into your blog like normal. Then click on where it says DESIGN.

Click where it says ADD A GADGET.


Look for where it says FOLLOW BY EMAIL and click the little blue cross. Sweet! That's all you need to do.


The Hard way...

To do it, firstly log into your blog and then go to http://feedburner.google.com/ to claim your blog.

Then go NEXT.
I am not sure what the difference is but I chose the first option for a feed and it worked well.
Nothing to click here and just click NEXT.
You now have a feed for your email subscription widget.
Click on publicize to get the widget.

Chose the 'Email Subscriptions' link.
Change the TYPEPAD tab to Blogger.
Highlight all of the html and copy it.
Go to your blog and add an html widget.

Paste the html into the widget box and save it. Move it to where you want it to be by dragging and dropping it where you want it to be and save it again.

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