How to create an email mailing list

Question

Im creating a coming soon page for a website im developing, and im adding an option for the user to enter their email address so we can email them when the site is up. How do I do this?

Answer 1

In order to make a form you will need to use an HTML form to allow the user to input their email address, and then a server side technology such as php or asp.net to grab the data and either send an email directly after the form is submitted, or store in a database or text file for later processing.

You can create a simple email form by following the steps here.

Heres a solution for asp.net.

And heres one for php.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Prefinery will help you manage the entire "beta" process. If you are just looking for a simple for tool, look at emailmeform.

If you have programming experience, you could create a database and store the email address.