Initially released in 2013, Contentful is a free and open-source blogging platform. The Contentful blogging software focuses on the simplification of the online publishing process for publishers, entrepreneurs, and developers.
If you’ve used Contentful to publish your content, you need to find a place to display important announcements about your brand without disrupting the design or the flow of your site. A floating bar is the perfect solution for this problem.
A Floating bar can be placed at the very top or the bottom of your website depending on your preference. It’s a very simple but effective tool that can display a message with a CTA or lead collection fields.
But you’ll be able to find many other floating bars in the market. Why use Serviceform?
- You don’t need any coding knowledge to build a Serviceform Floating bar.
- Easily customise and personalise Serviceform Floating bars to fit your brand.
- Serviceform tools come with built-in real time website and tool analytics at zero additional costs.
- Access to a growing library of 500+ free templates that has been proven and tested for you to draw inspiration from.
- Serviceform Floating bars have resulted in very high engagement rates on our customer websites.
Get started by creating your free Serviceform account!
Create your free Floating bar for Contentful
Step 1. Create you Serviceform account
After you create your Serviceform account you can create your Serviceform pixel in the box below, to start, type your website URL and select "START NOW".
Step 2. How to install free Floating bars on Contentful
Using HTML
If you’re a developer, or you can get the help of a developer, you can easily install a Serviceform Floating bar on Contentful using HTML.
To use HTML, you need access to your website code and place the pixel code on the <head> tag. Once you have accessed the <head> tag, place the Serviceform pixel code into your <head> tag.
You can find the pixel code from your Serviceform account.
Using Google Tag Manager
If you don’t feel very comfortable with HTML or any other type of code, you can easily install the Serviceform pixel on your Contentful website using Google Tag Manager.
In your Serviceform, select the option to install the Serviceform pixel through Google Tag Manager. Then copy your pixel code.
Afterwards, go to your Google Tag Manager account and click on add a new tag. Then name your tag.
Once you’ve named your tag, click on tag configuration. Then go down the drop down and select custom HTML. Paste the Serviceform pixel that you copied previously into the code area.
Then click on ‘triggering’ and select ‘all pages.’ Then save your work and press submit. In the submission configuration screen, type ‘Adding Serviceform pixel’ into the ‘Version name’ area.
Congratulations! You can now successfully install Serviceform Floating bars on your Contentful website.
Step 3. Test if your Serviceform pixel is live
You can check if your pixel is active by looking at the top right corner of your Serviceform dashboard. The green circle indicates that it's active, and the red circle below indicates that the pixel isn't active.