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Use the Design Settings to customize your Opt-in form
Use the Design Settings to customize your Opt-in form

Bloom's design settings can allow for almost unlimited variations, customized to match your site.

Updated over a year ago

Bloom Lets You Customize Everything

Blooms come with many different design settings, allowing you to adjust almost every aspect of your opt-in form.

After creating a form and choosing a base template, you will be taken to the Design tab, where you can continue to modify various aspects of your design, as outlined below.

Title and Message

Here, you can adjust the text content that appears within your opt-in.

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Optin Title

This header will appear at the top of your form in large text.

Optin Message

This text will appear below your header and will use a smaller font size. The title and message fields can be used to describe your newsletter or special offer. They can also be left blank if you want to leave the text out of your opt-in.

Both the title and message can be modified using the post editor, allowing you to adjust font color, weight and orientation.

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Image Settings

Here, you can add an image to your opt-in and adjust where that image appears within the opt-in box.

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Image Orientation

This setting affects where the image appears within your opt-in form. You can choose from several options:

  • No Image,

  • Image above text,

  • Image below text,

  • Image right of text,

  • Image left of text,

Image URL

This is the URL to the image that you would like to use within your opt-in box. You can input a custom URL to a static online resource or click the Upload Image button to upload your image to use in the form.

Image Load-In Animation

Images can be assigned a load-in animation. When the image is first loaded, this animation will occur. It can be a nice subtle touch that catches your visitor's eye and encourages them to read your message and subscribe to your list.

Hide Image On Mobile

If you are worried about the size of your mobile opt-in form, you can disable the image when browsing your website on mobile devices. This will hide the image on mobile and give more room for your title, message and input fields.

Here is an example of two opt-in forms, both of which have images enabled. One has the image placed on the left, while the second has the image placed below the text.

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Opt-in Styling

These design settings affect the entire opt-in form and constitute a set of general styles for your form.

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Background Color

Used to change the background color of your opt-in.

Header Font

Used to change the font that is used for your opt-in title.

Body Font

Used to adjust the font that is used for your opt-in message.

Text Color

This will change the color of both your opt-in header and body.

You can choose between light and dark, depending on your chosen background color.

If you have chosen a dark background color, make sure your text is set to light to be visible. If your background is a light color, make sure your text color is set to dark.

Corner Style

Used to choose a corner style for your opt-in.

Selecting rounded corners will apply rounded corners to the outer edges of the opt-in box.

Border Orientation

Used to add a border to your opt-in.

This border can be applied to all 4 edges or single edges.

Border Color

If you choose to add a border to your opt-in, you will then see the border color options.

Here, you can choose a color for your opt-in border. To give you an idea of how different styles look, here are two examples of opt-ins with adjusted styling.

The one on the left has a dark blue background color with light text, and it has no border. The opt-in on the right has a white background color with dark text and a full border.

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Border Style

If you have chosen to include a border, you can customize its style and shape in this section, in addition to the color settings in the previous section.

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Solid

This border style creates a simple, solid, and thin border around your opt-in's edge.

Dashed

The dashed border creates an inset dashed line around the outer edge of your opt-in.

Double Stroke

The double stroke is similar to the Solid border but with an additional solid inlay to create a double-bordered appearance.

Inlay

The inlay border is a solid line inside the opt-in, unlike the solid border.

Letter

This creates a more playful border, imitating a classic snail-mail letter.

Form Setup

Within the opt-in box, you can adjust the colors and placement of the form and input fields.

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Form Orientation

This adjusts where the form fields appear within your opt-in box. You can choose to have the form appear above, below or to the left or right of your opt-in title and message.

Email Text

This adjusts the placeholder words used within the email input form.

Button Text

You can modify the text displayed on the submission button from this section.

Button Text Color

You can customize the color of the text that appears on the submission button. To illustrate this, consider two forms that have been adjusted in their form setup settings. The left-hand form has the position set to bottom, whereas the one on the right has been set to left.

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Form Styling

These settings apply to the actual form inside of the opt-in box.

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Form Field Orientation

This adjusts how the input fields appear within the form itself. You can choose to have your input fields displayed inline in a single row, or you can choose to have the fields stacked up on top of each other.

Form Field Corner Style

Adjust the style of fields with rounded or squared corners.

Form Text Color

Adjust the text color within form input fields for readability.

Form Background Color

This setting allows you to change the background color of the opt-in form. The opt-in form has two main colors: the background color and the foreground color.

Form Button Color

The option allows you to customize the color of your submission button. This customization is applicable to both stacked forms and inline forms. Below, you can see two examples of forms that have been customized. The first one has stacked forms, while the second one has inline forms. Both of them have had the background color of the opt-in form adjusted. In addition to this, the button color of the orange form has been changed to white.

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Form Edge Style

In each opt-in box, there is an edge that separates the form from the text content. Here, you can apply different styles to that edge, giving your opt-in box a unique feel.

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Footer Text, Success Message and Custom CSS

These settings give you extra control over the messages that appear during form submission and the ability to add custom CSS tweaks to individual forms.

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Form Footer Text

This message will appear below the form input fields. A common use might be to link to a privacy policy or ensure your users that you will not spam or share their information.

Success Message

This message appears after a visitor has successfully subscribed to your email list.

Custom CSS

Here, you can add custom CSS that will apply only to the form you are building.

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