Hi, i want to create a field on my website whereby if someone enters there E-mail and clicks a button "Submit" and e-mail will be sent to me containing there e-mail, these e-mails will then be used as part of a newsletter list. How would i go about creating this field/button and making it safe so that it does not get manipulated? Also i am using hotmail, does anyone know of a free service which provides e-mail service? I also have Microsoft Outlook is it possible to create another account on this for the newsletter i hear it will be easier than hotmail. Many thanks in advance to all help recieved!
I'd have to go agree with frankcow - constant contact is an excellent program. you can send your newsletters directly from it and it has some decent stats on clickthrus, optouts and the like. I think you can get it for around $50/month and it's well worth it, if you're going to have a lot of people signing up and you want to minimize the amount of time you deal with it. you can add another account in Outlook, several in fact, and it's pretty easy. But I'd really go with Constant Contact, if you can.
Hello, wd_2k6. If you want to get people subscribed to your newsletter, you must set up a FORM on a page of your website. The object of the form is to collect your user's data. It will have places for the user inputting his name and his e-mail address. These will be sent to a CGI script running in the server that hosts your website. This script will either store the data or send them to your e-mail address. This is the more secure setup, as your e-mail address is never exposed. However, your script (a popular one is called FormMail) must analyze carefully what it receives, and the e-mail address should be coded in the script. For this to work, you will need an e-mail account of the POP3 type. AFAIK, Hotmail accounts are not POP3. Good luck.
Many thanks for all your help, I have currently set up an account using formmail, this also does not show my e-mail. It sends an e-mail to a Yahoo account which i created, and i recieve these e-mails using Outlook Express. This currently only allows 25 submissions a week but i do not expect more than this currently, however if my site does grow then i may look elsewhere. Many thanks!!
what is it that allows only 25 submissions? The list manager? Or the newsletter sending software? Because that's a very tight restriction
2 things: most ESPs (Email Service Providers, like constant contact) will auto generate the form HTML to include on your site Secondly, it doesn't matter what type the email addresses are. POP3 doesn't affect if you can get an email, it's just a transmission protocol. I have plenty of hotmail addresses on my lists