lost in a world of html

[bonzai]

hell, i'll try to keep this simple and to the point, abit like me! i am tring to set up a mailing list for my bands website, www.criteriontheband.co.uk (using dreamweaver) and have hunted through search engines to find a simple way of seting one up, i have copied code in to the html part of my dreamweaver page but cant get it to work. i want the page to look like this:

www.criterion.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mailinglist.htm

i am prepared to star overagian to make this as easy as possible, i am finding this difficult to say the least, if someone would be kind enough to show me the way out of the mess i have created it would be really appreciated.

thanks,

a man too young to be stressed over a mailing list

[Twey]

You cannot do this in HTML.
At a stretch, you could do it in a server-side language such as PHP, though this would be clumsy and far from perfect. The only real solution is to install some decent mailing-list software on your server, such as mailman (http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/).
Also, you seem to have some quotation problems.
<form action="http://www.criterion.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl method="post>should be
<form action="http://www.criterion.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl" method="post">and
<input type="hidden" value="http://www.criterion.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/redirectpage.html name="redirect>should be

<input type="hidden" value="http://www.criterion.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/redirectpage.html" name="redirect">

[bubba.daniel]

compliments to your site... it is attractive

[bonzai]

hello, thanks for the help, and the compliment, however still no luck, downloaded mailman but for some reason my computer could not read one of the files, so tried another method

http://www.webthang.co.uk/tuts/tuts_server/smtp1/smtp1_1.asp

but its an no go as dont think my computer meets the requirments need to run it.

My hair is rapidly falling out and im considering movin to france and marstering the ukulele

[Twey]

None of the solutions suggested require that you run them on your computer. Mailman is *nix software, so must be installed on a Linux or UNIX server. The ASP solution you mentioned will require that you have ASP installed on your server. The tutorial you pointed to is for testing purposes only, and assumes you have a webserver package (PWS) installed on your machine.

Gosh - my hundredth post.