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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
>