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Some other good PHP apps are: wordpress - blog drupal - blog with some wiki and other functionality PHPList - for managing mailing lists Zoe Keating wrote: > hello george! > > i used to do double-opt-in via my own site using something called > Dadamail. but as my list grew it became important for me to keep the > email list away from my domain. > now, for ease, i use a service called Fanbridge...and i'm very happy > with it. > > Fanbridge would solve the first part: collect and verify email (as you > describe: i.e. double opt-in). and store them by zip code, so you can > do targeted campaigns. > > > On Jul 29, 2009, at 9:21 AM, George Ludwig wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm getting my marketing end together, and what's holding me up right >> now is the lack of a real website. I've registered the domain name, >> but I need the site built. The one thing I need that is a little >> complex for your average web designer (but I would expect to be very >> common on artist web sites) is a means to collect and verify a fan >> email address, and monitor fan activity. >> >> By verify, I mean that the fan should receive an email to the address >> they supplied, and then they click a link in the email that calls my >> server back, and in this way the email address is verified. >> Naturally, I also need a way to maintain and interact with that list >> of email addresses. >> >> Also, I need a "members" section that is accessed by using a >> validated email address for entry, and I want to record the number of >> hits per email address, so I know who is the most active on my site. >> >> Everything else about my planned site is trivial from a programmatic >> viewpoint (i.e., news/blog, bio, images, sound samples, schwag store, >> etc.). >> >> Can anyone reccomend a designer who has done this, or point me to >> some downloadable php or asp widgets, or maybe a hosting service that >> offers this as part of their framework? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -George >> >> -- >> >> http://www.myspace.com/georgeludwigmusic >