Campaign Monitor is another popular e-mail newsletter system you may use to keep in touch with customers outside the realm of Magento's transactional e-mails.
Firstly, you will need the subscription form code from your Campaign Monitor list: log in to your Campaign Monitor account, and navigate to the Lists & Subscribers tab. Select a subscriber list from here:
In the right-hand column of this screen, click on the Grow your audience option:
On the next screen, you will see an option for Copy/paste a form to your site:
Once you have customized the form to your liking, click on the Get the code button at the bottom of the screen:
Copy the code presented, and log in to your Magento store's administration panel. From here, navigate to CMS | Static Blocks and click on the Add New Block button at the top-right corner of your screen:
Click on the Save Block button and open your theme's local.xml
file (present at /app/design/frontend/default/m18/layout/
) to assign this block to the right-hand column using the following highlighted code:
<default> <reference name="right"> <block type="cms/block" name="cms_campaignmonitor"> <action method="setBlockId"> <block_id>newsletter_campaignmonitor</block_id> </action> </block> </reference> </default>
Refreshing your store once you have saved this change will display the subscription form for your Campaign Monitor account, allowing you to style it further should you wish to: