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Re: OT: artist website functionality/designer reccomendations
Give Joomla a try, I've had some good results with it in the past.
http://www.joomla.org/
Sylvain
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Aaron Leese<aaronleese@flyloops.com>
wrote:
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> Some other good PHP apps are:
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> wordpress - blog
> drupal - blog with some wiki and other functionality
> PHPList - for managing mailing lists
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> 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
>>
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