How to Create a Bootstrap Contact Form with PHP, jQuery and AJAX

Bootstrap Contact Form Tutorial

Today’s article is a tutorial where we’ll learn how to create a Bootstrap contact form using PHP, jQuery and AJAX (and also HTML5 & CSS3). If you have already seen my templates, free or premium, you know that I use these contact forms in almost everyone of them. They are very useful to have in your site as they give the user the possibility to contact you without leaving the page.

Today I’ll show you step by step how to create one and, in the end, you can download all the source files and use them in your projects. Let’s begin!

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Create a WordPress Coming Soon Page in 15 minutes with Mira

Mira - Coming Soon Page WordPress Tutorial

If you’re planning to launch a new product or service in the future and you want to create a coming soon page to generate some subscribers before the release day, you can use a simple HTML Bootstrap template like this one. In this case you have to modify the template according to your needs by editing some HTML, CSS and Javascript files. Nothing too difficult, really.

But what if you wanted to create the same “under construction” page without touching a line of code?

You could use WordPress and the Mira Theme!

In today’s tutorial I’ll show you step by step and with the help of some screenshot images, how to create a “coming soon” page in WordPress in 15 minutes with the Mira Bootstrap WordPress Theme. Let’s begin!

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How to add a MailChimp Subscribe Form to a Bootstrap Landing Page

Marco Bootstrap Template - MailChimp Tutorial

If you’re using email marketing for growing your business, you have probably heard about MailChimp. You can register to MailChimp for free and start using it. With the “Free Plan” you can have up to 2000 subscribers and send up to 12000 emails per month.

Ok, now that we know MailChimp is great for starting your email list, let’s learn how to add a MailChimp subscription form to a Bootstrap template / landing page. Today in this tutorial we’ll learn it step by step using the Marco template as an example. Though, these instructions can also be used for my other templates.

Update, 11 February 2016:

I’ve updated the tutorial and now it should work with the MailChimp API v3.0.

Attention: If you try it in your local computer (for example with XAMPP) it might give PHP warnings / errors. Please try it on a server.

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Quick Tutorial: Andia – Using videos in the home page slider

Andia - Using videos in the home page slider

Today we’ll continue with another tutorial from the Quick Tutorials category. As I’ve explained here, these are short articles where I show how to do a certain thing (customization, modification) with my templates, how to fix a web development problem, etc.

I get the tutorial ideas usually from the questions you make in the templates’ pages or from my everyday web design and development work. So, if you’re trying to customize any of my themes, please let me know in the comments and I might create a tutorial.

In today’s tutorial I explain how you can use videos (embedded from Vimeo, YouTube, etc.) in the home page slider of the Andia Bootstrap template. It’s really quick and easy, and at the end of this article you’ll know how to use mixed elements in the slider: images and videos. Let’s begin with the HTML code:

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Quick Tutorial: Andia – Embedded video as portfolio item thumbnail

Andia - Embedded video as portfolio item thumbnail

Today I’ll begin a new category of posts on Azmind: the Quick Tutorials category. Here I’ll publish (relatively) short articles where I explain how to do a certain thing (customization, modification) with my templates, how to fix a web development problem, etc. I’ll get the tutorial ideas usually from the questions you make in the templates’ pages and also from my everyday web development work. Keep in mind that your questions will not become all tutorials and if you want quick support for the free templates, you can get it with my paid support option.

So, let’s begin with today’s quick tutorial. In the last update of the Andia Bootstrap template I added the possibility to use videos (YouTube and Vimeo) as portfolio items.

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