form to collect e-mail adresses --- Newsletter

[beeman81]

Hello!

I was thinking about starting to collect peoples adresses for my newsletter.
To do this I thought about making a pop-under window asking them to subscribe by entering their name and e-mail adress.

How do I do this?

I know how to make a pop-under window, but I'm not sure about the form part (name, adress, submit-button)

Thanks,
Daniel

[AdamGundry]

1. Don't use a pop-under window, do it in the same window as everything else.

2. Assuming you want the details emailed to you, and don't have a server-side script to do it, you can use something like this:

<form action="mailto:your_email@example.com">
Name: <input type="text" name="name">
Email address: <input type="text" name="email_address">
<input type="submit" value="Send!">
</form>

Adam

[beeman81]

Hmm.. I don't know about that one.
It looks good, but it opened my Outlook

It would be good if it would just send the message to me without hassle. Otherwise it's nice.

[AdamGundry]

To avoid using the user's default email client (in your case Outlook) to send the message, you need to use a server-side script. Find out which server-side languages you have available (ask your web host) and then search for a "form-to-mail" script in those languages.

Adam

[pyro]

Or, if you server supports PHP, you could use this one: http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9543#post48748