Here's how to incorporate BackwardBlog on your site.
Option 1. The Widget
The widget may be the simplest thing for you to implement. It's 170px wide, which is narrow enough to fit into most blog sidebars. When users visit your site, they can fill out the one text box and submit it. When they press submit, they'll be taken to a page on our site, where they can fill out more information. They'll then get a link right back to your site. All you have to do is drop one of these widget codes into your site.
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Option 2. The Form
You can put the full form on your website too! You will probably be best off putting this on its own page on your site. Visitors can fill out all the information we collect. Once they press the post button, they'll be sent to our site. Don't worry! We give them a big fat link right back to your site.
Option 3. Just Links
You can place these links on your sidebar or anywhere on your site. These are pretty basic, so if you have any basic knowledge of HTML, you can do pretty much whatever you want with these. For the images, we highly recommend you copy it onto your server for faster load time.
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Option 4. Trackbacks
Others bloggers may want to bring an article they themselves write. You can post this link on your site, and when bloggers post something and add the link below as a trackback, their article will appear in your private BackwardBlog feed.
http://backwardblog.com/trackbacks/backwardblog
Option 5. Roll Your Own
Aren't you fancy?! Here's how to put your own custom form on your site, all of which will post to your BackwardBlog.
So it's pretty simple. All you have to do is to make a simple HTML form on your site.
Your form action should be
http://backwardblog.com/client/backwardblog
Add in the following things as POST parameters (using GET won't work!).
item_title
The subject of their message.
item_content
The content of their message.
item_url
Any url associated with their message.
poster_name
The name of the person posting.
poster_url
The homepage of the user.
poster_email
The users email address
ref
Your website link. Use this to redirect users back to whatever web page you like once they have submitted something to your BackwardBlog.
clcmp=alg
REQUIRED you must add this as a hidden POST variable in order for your form to submit properly.
The BackwardBlog system was designed to be as versatile as possible, and will accept pretty much any kind of textual input, or nothing at all. As you can see, only one field is required (clcmp). Here are things you might want to try out to maximize your BackwardBlog.
- Ensure that they have filled out the information you want.
- Have the title field be a drop down, so you may categorize submissions.
- Validate input, email addresses, etc.
The possibilities are endless!