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"Mailing list 'Subscribe' button..."

So basically I have a website at www.unitepunk.tk and I want to create a mailing list to send to people when it gets updated and when stuff happens and that. I just want a little text box for them to enter their E-mail address into and a button next to it ('OK' or 'subscribe' or something like that written on it). Now I can create this using MS Frontpage (what I used to build the whole site) but it doesn't work at all when I upload the page.

And I don't know where the information entered in the text box will be sent... since the site is hosted on Geocities, I doubt they'll collect any data for me, so I think the best thing would be for the form to automatically send an E-mail to me with the E-mail address entered into the text box...

So, anyone have any idea how this would be achieved, or better yet have some script or HTML that would do it for me...?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Well, I uploaded the test page with the HTML inserted (I used cjh's HTML, and yes, I did enter my E-mail in place of the yourname@... bit) but it doesn't want to work...

I asked a mate to try it out and he said it wouldn't work because geocities didn't support any PHP, but I was under the impression that the HTML you wrote didn't use any special script?

One thing I did notice was that when you hit 'submit' the page doesn't reload, as most pages do when you hit a button, and no information seems to be sent...

You can see for yourself at:

www.geocities.com/unitepunk2002/maintest.htm

Well, if anyone can help (again) it would be appreciated. Thank you :-)

Heh, I seem to have sparked a debate over which method would be best for me among those of you with too much time... Nah, just kidding, ta very much for the help it's appreciated. I'll try it in a minute, once I write the contents page for my A-Level IT coursework.

Thanks again :-)

:d thats a good point, doesn't mean he has to have to script hosted on the Geocities domain :p

Didn't think so :oP

lol, of course not :)

aahhhhhhhhh, but he said he was on 'Geocities' and I didn't think they supported PHP/CGI .... or do they?

Ah but my way people don't have the chance to spam your inbox :p

... of course, doing the first way would just send you the persons E-mail Address, so you could have all the addresses in a Group in your Address book in Outlook Express.

... thats the simple way, but not the most popular.

The best way would be to use a PHP or CGI Script, but if your host doesn't support PHP or CGI, just use the code at the top.

You need a script: http://hotscripts.com
now you can do it 2 ways to do this.

1st way: Get a news script, make it avaliable to everyone:

this then sends whatever they write in the input box to a text file...wherever it is that it's saved.
You then copy ALL the emails from that file into a contact list and send an email to all of them :).
Thats the hardway.

2nd way: Get a mailing List script, upload it, put the input box on your site and generally follow the instructions given to you by the creator of the script and ta da!

the first ways easier but is annoying to update :) 2nd way takes a few years to configure unless you know what your doing but takes no time to update as it does everything for you..except make a cup of tea and wipe your bum.