Please guide newbie in creating submission form

I have created submission forms to handle visitor newsletter signups in ASP,
but am not familiar yet enough with ASP to do this. Can anyone suggest a
link or two (or three) explaining how to do this? I can actually post well
enough to a form, as that part is simple. It's the part of adding a user to
a mailing list. Would anyone recommend writing their data to a database
(MySQL is my guess, as it's free on my server), and then just managing it
via a custom interface, or does anyone have a better suggestion? I thought
of adding it to a mailing list automatically, as I can create my own,
although I'm not sure what kind of code to use to add the supplied
information to the list manager.

Thanks for the assist.

>I have created submission forms to handle visitor newsletter signups in ASP,
>but am not familiar yet enough with ASP to do this. Can anyone suggest a
>link or two (or three) explaining how to do this? I can actually post well
>enough to a form, as that part is simple. It's the part of adding a user to
>a mailing list. Would anyone recommend writing their data to a database
>(MySQL is my guess, as it's free on my server), and then just managing it
>via a custom interface, or does anyone have a better suggestion?
If your ISP has MySQL it's pretty certain they'll offer php This is free and
cross-platform. Your suggestion seems the way to go; after only three months of handling
php/MySQL something like what you describe is less-than-an-hour stuff.

I thought
>of adding it to a mailing list automatically, as I can create my own,
>although I'm not sure what kind of code to use to add the supplied
>information to the list manager.
Give it a go and if you get stuck post direct to me and I'll supply some code, liaise with
you to make sure it's a go-er.
Yooors,

Iain.

Thanks a bunch. I'll start trying to create something and let you know how
it goes. Any tips on how to approach the project? Should I first create a
database, the screen fields, or other?

Thanks again.

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> >I have created submission forms to handle visitor newsletter signups
in ASP,
> >but am not familiar yet enough with ASP to do this. Can anyone suggest
a
> >link or two (or three) explaining how to do this? I can actually post
well
> >enough to a form, as that part is simple. It's the part of adding a
user to
> >a mailing list. Would anyone recommend writing their data to a
database
> >(MySQL is my guess, as it's free on my server), and then just managing
it
> >via a custom interface, or does anyone have a better suggestion?
> If your ISP has MySQL it's pretty certain they'll offer php This is free
and
> cross-platform. Your suggestion seems the way to go; after only three
months of handling
> php/MySQL something like what you describe is less-than-an-hour stuff.
>
> I thought
> >of adding it to a mailing list automatically, as I can create my own,
> >although I'm not sure what kind of code to use to add the supplied
> >information to the list manager.
> Give it a go and if you get stuck post direct to me and I'll supply some
code, liaise with
> you to make sure it's a go-er.
> Yooors,
>
> Iain.
>