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does anyone know how i should go about putting an email address submit field on my bands web site? (like to sign up for the email newsletter...youd just put your email in the text field and press 'submit' or whatever and it would be sent to me)

do i need some special program? any free ones? heh.

thanks
 
photoresistor said:
does anyone know how i should go about putting an email address submit field on my bands web site? (like to sign up for the email newsletter...youd just put your email in the text field and press 'submit' or whatever and it would be sent to me)

do i need some special program? any free ones? heh.

thanks
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The easiest way, if you are familiar with HTML is to go to a band's site that already have this, examine the source code for that part of the page and copy it, obviously changing the email address to your own.

Just a basic feature is easy enough. depending on how comkplicated you make the form you may need to get a service provider that allows CGI and so on, but that's a bit of a mystery to me to be honest. My service provider provide a basic script and I just used that.

Other than that there are various sites on line which have free examples of code, do a google search.
 
The simplest thing is to set up a simple form that directly emails you the contents of what's in the form. You can do that with any webserver without needing access to any executable machinery at all. Trouble is, if there's more than a few things in the form it's kind of a mess to deal with, because all the form fields are sent back in a simple unformatted fashion. Also, the way the mechanism works, it's not an absolute given that someone filling out a form this way can successfully submit it. Here's an article that talks about this:

http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/form_no4.htm

and another:

http://www.isolani.co.uk/articles/mailto.html
 
thanks for the help guys... im using that reply-o-matic thing that was in one of those links. Seems to work great so far.

thanks
 
If you really want to go balls out, get an autoresponder because everything will be automated and you'll never again have to deal with the hassle of subscribing or unsubscribing people.

To see mine in use, email biz101@kathoderaymusic.com and you'll get some music promotion tips back.
 
Is this on your own webserver?
I could help you write a small script in php to get this done if you like.
My email address is tcpsyn@gmail.com
 
www.Bandzoogle.com is the coolest thing I've seen to help muscians on the net. Design your site with them, and they give you all the tools you need like mailing list, polls, message boards, discussion forum, I don't know anything about web design and I did my site completely by myself.

The mailing list tool they offer allows people to simply enter their email. It auto responds to them with your message, and puts their email on your mailing list. I looove it.
 
demensia, I recommend that you use a third party autoresponder because they spend a lot of time working with ISPs to make sure that mail gets through. You can do something from your own server if you use a service that has a cron job available though.

If you guys like BandZoogle, Hostbaby.com has a new option that is similar. Both are great if you don't know HTML.
 
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