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Re: OT: artist website functionality/designer reccomendations
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
>