mc_nate on "[Plugin: MailChimp List Subscribe Form] How do I change color of the subscribe-field?"

Hey there Andreas!

Happy to help get this sorted out.

For the background-color of the submit button, this is generally best handled by adding some custom styling to your sites Style.css file. I typically like to use Firebug (for Firefox) or Chrome's built-in developer tools to find the classes or IDs I need to edit. For the submit button, you'll want to add something like this to your CSS:

.mc_signup_submit {
color: _________;
background-color: ________;
}

This will allow you to set a custom font and background color for the submit button in your site. For example:

Screenshot -- http://cl.ly/image/293f0f43210C

If you're wanting to get rid of the "Preferred Format" area, there are a couple of options. You can either use CSS to hide the area, or you can remove it entirely by editing the list in MailChimp. Here's the complete rundown, here:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-list-subscribe-form-remove-preferred-format?replies=14

Last, but certainly not least, you were concerned with the width of the input area for the email address. This is going to be another issue that's best corrected through CSS. You can set up a style in your site's CSS that says MailChimp fields can only be X px or X% wide, like so:

.mc_input {
width: _______;
}

For my example, I chose 80%, which gives you something like this:

Screenshot -- http://cl.ly/image/3I1w3C1l1v39

Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns!

Cheers