Join mailing list form on uf website

[SarahBaghdadi]

Perhaps located in the footer, or on the homepage as a section.

[alexweissman]

Yup. I'd like to store email addresses in a DB, but Grav is not DB-based. So, we will have to figure out a good way to integrate the two. Maybe we can host a simple API on a subdomain and have just the form on Grav, post to our API.

[JoshNorris]

Why not use a service such as MailChimp? Sure, it's not the way of building it yourself, but it should be mostly quick and easy to setup and get it working as a middle ground till you figure out a better way to do it.

[alexweissman]

hmmmm...

[SarahBaghdadi]

At this point we have a list from people who sign up for the demo site, and its storing their email preferences. So I think we would need to link up our form with that database, is that correct?

[alexweissman]

you mean, so that people can sign up for the mailing list without needing to create an account on the demo server?

[SarahBaghdadi]

Yeah. I mean I guess most people will demo. But I think its still a good practice to have some active way of signing up, and you might catch more people that way.

[alexweissman]

Ok that's a good point, but I'd have to think about how to implement this. Maintaining two separate lists/tables would be a pain.