Info-Profits Talk - HTML Form Help

RoyB

Hello Everyone

Here's what I'm trying to do: I have 3 ecourses that I have redistribution rights too and would like to offer them from my site using "check boxes" and entering your name and email just once to receive any or all ecourses selected via autoresponders.
My problem is I'm trying to teach myself HTML and can't seem to find a good example to work from.
Does anyone here know of a script that I can use?

Thanks

Kennon

so if you find out about something on this, please let me know.

I have wondered about doing something like this for a contest.
Is there an easy way to multi-subscribe people to lists for my
ezine and that of the others participating in a prize giveaway?

Kennon :)

jason_ga

You can't do what you want (subscribe to multiple lists) from just HTML. You will need some sort of script (PHP, Perl, etc) to handle the multiple subscriptions.

Here's one (paid for) that I found via Google. I didn't do an extensive search - I expect there are free scripts out there as well. As always, its a case of finding the right words so Google gives you the results you want ;)

http://willmaster.com/master/subscriberpro/index.shtml

Cheers,
Jason

Kennon

Thanks Jason. Good info.

Kennon :)

RoyB

Thanks for the info Jason.

I was able to put together an HTML form for multiple subscriptions from digging through the books again. And I know I need a CGI script to do the multiple subscriptions. Just not sure how to go about writting it yet.
If someone wants a copy of the html side, just email me and I'll give you what I have so far.

Thanks again

Kennon

Roy, please send it to me... I'd like to get people to opt-in on a
form for a free teleseminar and simultaneously add them to my
main subscriber base.

If I can have that, I will be really glad!

Kennon :)

RoyB

Kennon

I'll send you what I have, but it'll need some kind of cgi script to do the multiple subscriptions.

Kennon

Roy, this should be interesting. Do we have any CGI experts
around here? I can't say I've done ANYthing with it before.

Kennon :)

infoready

You may check out the link below. There are all kinds of scripts here for managing forms, and many are free.

cgi.resourceindex.com (http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Form_Processing/)

RoyB

Thanks Justin!

There seems to be some promising scripts at that link!

Thanks Again

RoyB

I was givin a link to get a script like what I was looking for. I posted the link over at "Free stuff you like on the web!"
http://www.infoprofitstalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=1389#post1389

Hope this will help some of you out.

Roy

P.s. It's FREE to!

George Chapin

Just a genreral warning on this - I did this on my main domain using autoresponse plus. Worked great but then all the addresses were spidered by spam bots and I ended up with more spam subscribers then real ones. - be careful.

RoyB

Thanks George! I'll definately keep that in mind! Not sure what type of security is in the script that I got linked too. Trying to talk to a programmer about modifying it for my site.

Thanks for the Heads Up!!!

George Chapin

Glad you appreciated the input... for what it's worth I ended up taking down the page and directing the addresses to autoresponders that have a double opt-in.

RoyB

The autoresponder I was planning on using has the option of single or double opt-in modes. I have it set for double to maybe even help with the new spam laws I've been reading about.

Do you have any other tips or advice that would be of use. I new to the business side of the internet and am trying to absorbe as much as possible.

Thanks Again
Roy

Kennon

Originally posted by George Chapin
Just a genreral warning on this - I did this on my main domain using autoresponse plus. Worked great but then all the addresses were spidered by spam bots and I ended up with more spam subscribers then real ones. - be careful.

George, is what you're saying simply because you were using that
particular autoresponder?

Kennon :)

George Chapin

Actually I think it was more due to the program. I think it was multisubscribe something or another. Which is a great program but the bottom line is that the subscription addresses are in the html and spam bots will pick them up.

If you use scripts like this on thankyou pages the odds of that are of course less - since hopefully your thankyou pages are not spidered by robots.

Autoresponseplus is great - it had nothing to do with the autoresponder software.

Kennon

Thanks for explaining that, George. Now the next step then
would be to re-write the script to encode and protect the email
addresses as they are added so they cannot be gobbled by the
spam bots.

One of the products offered on my site at Instant Software Profits (http://www.instant-software-profits.com)
is an email scrambler. Now surely these two technologies could
be combined. What do you think? Would that make it more
appealing?

Kennon :)

RoyB

What about using some of the email encryptors that I've seen floating around the web that are supposed to hide your email address from web pages so spiders don't get them. Do you think that would help keep your addresses safer. Or they not as good as they say?