Hi Guys.
New to this forum, so I thought I'd give it a go. Seems to be pretty high up there in the Google Website design help forums.

Anyways.

Im looking to add an email system onto my website.

Basically, I want a sign up feature where people can fill their email address in, Tick the 'Agree to the Terms & Conditions' (this part is very important). Once they've signed up I want to be able to send an e-mail to each of the people who have sign up, daily. Is there some sort of system that can do this? If I have to pay for it, does anyone know any reasonably priced companies who offer this service?

Thanks for your help.

-Stanny2k

Hello there,

To create your form you will have to research some form making. This will require some php knowledge and possibly client side validation through javascript(or jQuery, etc.) if you want those cool "instant" messages to display to a user while filling out a form. (eg. "you forgot the email address!")

Basically, you create the form in html(or php) and then send that form to a php page to validate it. By validating the form, you make sure users haven't input malicious content or forgotten to check your "terms and conditions" box, etc. There are also free form generators as well to help you create this, but you should have some knowledge of what's going on.

When the form has been validated, you can then send it to your email or have it input into a database, which ever you prefer or even both.

Once you have the emails in store, you can send them newsletters each day. If you plan on having many(hundreds or more) you'll want to consider using an email service like http://www.mailchimp.com/ or http://www.campaignmonitor.com/
These companies will help track your emails sent in a google analytics kind of way. Plus, they will keep you from being marked as a spammer from your own email service.(Very important!)

You can get help here on creating a form, but many prefer to "help" others along rather than create the entire thing. This way you learn more plus get friendly advice of those who have been through the process.

BTW - Welcome to the forum!

If you want to send emails of your posts you can do it by setting up a feed with http://www.feedburner.com . You can add a form to your page that allows users to enter their email address, and sign up. Then when you post to your XML feed, the post is automatically sent to the subscriber.