? about text box and sending an email

[XeniaDrums]

My band is trying to set up a mailing list. We'd like to put a text box and a button on the site for people to enter their email address and send it to our email account.

The test html we have done doesn't even work but it looks right. When I type in the email address and press submit it pops up the outlook email account, but that doesn't even work when I send it.

Is there a way to have it so when they type in their email address and push send it will by-pass the email and just send us their name?

Any help would greatly be appreciated...

Thanks

here's an example..
http://www.catalyst-theory.com/maintest2.html

[Jason]

it depends on how you want to do it. Im nost to sure about javascript doing this but you might concider using a data base to store peoples e-mail addresses. So when the submit button gets hit it automatically stores the address into the data base.

Jason

[whammy]

Does your server support ASP or PHP? I did notice on in2net.com that there was a mention of MySQL...

If so, I'd look into using a database (or at the least storing this information in a text file), using a server-side language (if they support it).

Definitely worth looking into... if not, you can always use a free formmail service like bravenet.com or the one I wrote in my signature (I have people from China to Australia to The Netherlands who use my formmail processor - although the number isn't "huge", I haven't had any complaints yet!).