Creating Your Subscription Page

Actually, creating a subscription page is pretty easy.  The purpose of Max List is to allow automatic subscriptions on your website. Thus, you must include some Javascript code on the page(s) where you want the subscribe form to appear.

This code is:

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.yourdomain.com/maxlist/subscribe.php?lid=ListID">
</script>

WHERE: http://www.yourdomain.com is your name domain name
AND 'maxlist' is the folder where you installed the Max List software.

Wherever you put the above Javascript on a webpage, there will appear the subscribe form for the list numbered ListID. (The Lists Control Panel will show you the List ID number for a given list.)

This will create a form that looks like this:

The layout of this form is control by a CSS file called subscribe.css located in the Max List folder. The tag called "wws_subscribe" controls the appearance of the fonts on this page.

When the subscribers press the Subscribe button, they will see a page that says this:

Thank You! You are almost signed up. Only one more step... Please check your email inbox for our verification email. You must click on a link in that email to complete your subscription.

Click Here to Continue

Where does the subscriber go, when the Click Here to Continue is pressed?  It goes to the place you configured in the field called "Page URL After Thanks" when you setup the list in the Lists Control Panel.

If, when you setup the list, you checked the checkbox called "Does the List Manager Get Copies of Confirmation Emails? (Y/N)" , then you will receive an email every time any subscriber confirms their subscription. You'll also get an email when someone unsubscribes, and when anyone changes their email address.

That's it! Now, let's looking at sending a message to your subscribers....

(Sending Messages)