how do I collect emails in front page for a newsletter?

[imatrs]

I work in a school system that has a web page. I would like to be able to
offer the parents a place for them to input their email address in the web
page so we can send them a montly newsletter. Also an unsubscribe would be
nice as well.

Thanks

 

[Trevor L.]

I work in a school system that has a web page. I would like to be
able to offer the parents a place for them to input their email
address in the web page so we can send them a montly newsletter.
Also an unsubscribe would be nice as well.

Thanks

If your web server supports Access DBs then you can set up a page that
requests an address and then loads it into a database. Then you read the
database, retrieve the addresses and put them into the newletter (I assume
an email).

The conventional advice is to use the DataBase Interface Wizard, but I had
trouble with it and ended up modifying the code myself. Actually, I can't
give much more advice. I could post the code I use for updating a database,
but there is a lot of it and the DBIW should do it for you.

Anyway, try it and see how you go.

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Hi Imatrs,

Take a look at the DIW which allows you to write information to the database.

 

[HarveyK]

Imatrs,
I manage our local high schools band web site. We also send out a newsletter
periodically. I'm by no means a guru when it comes to code and such. What I
did was
1. created 3 mail accounts on my server; "subscribe@domainname.",
"leave@domainname." and one for general comments and questions. In
Outlook2002 I found instructions for creating a template. I created the
template with a header (Newsletter Name & logo) and footer(disclaimer,
subscribe link and unsubscribe link) and left plenty of room between them for
"copying & pasting" the content that changes. In Frontpage2003 I created a
simple form (FirstName, Lastname email and confirm email fields (all
required) that get emailed to the subscribe address. Anyone who submits I
then add them to a Distribution list I created in Outlook contacts. As soon
as the author sends me the Newsletter I upload it to the our web server (
pictures and all). I then open the template in Outlook and the Newsletter on
the server and copy and paste the changed content in the body of the
template. I also added an IMAP account in Outlook so when I send it to the
distribution list it appears to be coming from the Newsletter staff and not
my personal account. So far I'm only dealing with 15 to 20 members but it
works great and there's no need to deal with db's and asp. If it gets too
large well.....guess I'll cross that bridge then. Files are only 20kb,
minimal pics mostly text content.