Want to make your own Tea Party site but not take away from teaparty07.com!? 3 steps!

[TechnoGuyRob]

1. Make your site nice and fancy around the issue you want (pro-freedom, pro-life, anti-war, etc., etc.). Tell people about the December 16th fundraiser on the page.
   
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2. Add this HTML at the point in the page where you want them to have a chance to sign up:
   
   

   <!-- Start TeaParty07.com subscriber form -->
   <form action="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverify" method="post" target="popupwindow" onsubmit="window.open('http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1359685', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">
   
      Enter your email address: 
     <input type="text" style="width:140px" name="email"/>
   
     <input type="hidden" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=1359685" name="url"/>
     <input type="hidden" value="TeaParty07.com" name="title"/>
     <input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US"/>
     
      <input type="submit" value="Pledge" />
   
   </form>
   <!-- End TeaParty07.com subscriber form -->

   
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3. First, add this javascript file to your webpage header:
   
   

   <script src="http://therobert.org/rp/tp/js" type="text/javascript" />

   
   Now, wherever you want to show the number of subscribers, use the "showTeapartySubscribers()" function. For example, let's say you have a fancy CSS class called "bigtext" and you want to show the number of subscribers in the "bigtext" style. Then you would write:
   
   

   <span class="bigtext">
   <script type="text/javascript"><!--
   showTeapartySubscribers();
   //--></script>
   subscribers.</span>

   
   There is also the "showTeapartySubscribersLastUpdated()" function, which prints something like "9:25 pm EST 11/12/07" at the point where you put it in the page. There is also "showTeapartyVisitors()" and "showTeapartyVisitorsLastUpdated()". In summary, you can use these four functions:
   
   

   showTeapartySubscribers
   showTeapartySubscribersLastUpdated
   showTeapartyVistors
   showTeapartyVistorsLastUpdated

   
   These update in realtime and will reflect changes on the teaparty07.com website/numbers.

AND THAT'S IT!

Here is an example page. I assume if you want to make your own tea party site, you know how to look at the HTML source code. If you're a stickler for getting every last sucker, just add a link to teaparty07.com in a <noscript> in addition to using the Javascript.

For comments/requests/complaints, reply to this thread.

EDIT: This method doesn't even make you use the "Tea Party" theme! You can use anything, really. If you change the hidden input variable "title" to something other than "TeaParty07.com", they pretty much won't ever even know it's related. Of course, the e-mails Trevor will send out will probably be a bit revealing, but I don't think it matters in the long run: if someone signs up to give $100 to a politician, they will give $100 to a politician.

 

[sroll2237]

Good Job for figuring this all out!!! This is gonna help out tremendously I think!

 

[Wayne Hammond]

Excellent Rob.

There you go, folks. For all those wanting to start your own web site, this seems like a way to do it - satisfy your ego, get the word out, do your own thing, and help the team effort. Use this method and you'll no longer have to complain that "Trevor isn't using my suggestions".

All this, plus the added benefit of providing no competition with www.teaparty07.com.

Perfect solution.


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[chowda]

Great job!

 

[FluxCapacitor]

Hooray!

 

[ppc1040]

Very nice solution to the multi-site controversy.

 

[kimochinews]

Thank you, TechnoGuyRob!!!

 

[Energy]

Look forward to seeing what you guys come up with.

 

[Shorties]

Very cool although i do have one fear, that scammers will take this and then use it to call themselves the official RP Tea Party Site and then post a phony donate button.

 

[SwordOfShannarah]

Wow!! Pretty cool and purty smart.

Very cool although i do have one fear, that scammers will take this and then use it to call themselves the official RP Tea Party Site and then post a phony donate button.

I'm not sure there is any stopping that sort of thing. Our code or not a scammer can set up a site and do this. I just hope people use their heads and understand they need to donate at the official site. Not sure how we can combat that.. this is the kind of thing scammers could do for anything, click here to donate to X candidate, X charity, etc..

 

[ppc1040]

Very cool although i do have one fear, that scammers will take this and then use it to call themselves the official RP Tea Party Site and then post a phony donate button.

Well, this is only for pledges. All the donations have to go through RonPaul2008.com. Seems like the worst damage a scammer might be able to do is siphon off or confuse some possible contributors (by keeping them from the actual pledge site) and collect some email addresses.

We just need to make sure in our promotional efforts to always say "remember to donate at ronpaul2008.com" in addition to asking for the pledge. Other than that, there is not much we can do to stop scammers.

Ultimately, there just isn't a lot of upside to someone putting the effort into a scam Ron Paul site. I think the 'market' mostly takes care of this problem for us.

 

[TechnoGuyRob]

I understand your concern, Shorties, but once they're on the mailing list, hopefully they'll only listen to the mailing list: which tells them to go to ronpaul2008.com! Besides, a scammer wouldn't use this, they'd fake the # of subscribers and sign you up to their entirely own feed.

 

[sroll2237]

I hope that people will take advantage of this code so that a broader range of people will join up. This is really exciting! I wish I could make a site but I lack the time and know how right now.

 

[tremendoustie]

HOORAY!! The perfect solution. Thanks Rob.

 

[nathanielyao]

Thanks for figuring that out for us Rob!

Hopefully now we can concentrate on the task at hand. For those worried about scammers, donate only at www.ronpaul2008.com/donate. Type it into you web browser and do not click on any links. For more information see http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=34323

I understand your concern, Shorties, but once they're on the mailing list, hopefully they'll only listen to the mailing list: which tells them to go to ronpaul2008.com! Besides, a scammer wouldn't use this, they'd fake the # of subscribers and sign you up to their entirely own feed.

Wow!! Pretty cool and purty smart.



I'm not sure there is any stopping that sort of thing. Our code or not a scammer can set up a site and do this. I just hope people use their heads and understand they need to donate at the official site. Not sure how we can combat that.. this is the kind of thing scammers could do for anything, click here to donate to X candidate, X charity, etc..

 

[GHoeberX]

Good work TechnoRob!

 

[LBT]

Great stuff TechnoRob.

 

[TechnoGuyRob]

Bump. I'm glad to see this destroyed all the "BOOHOO WHAT ABOUT THIS THEME?" threads.

 

[Wayne Hammond]

Bump. I'm glad to see this destroyed all the "BOOHOO WHAT ABOUT THIS THEME?" threads.

Heh heh... It sure did, didn't it!

I'm glad, Rob - some of the more vocal ones were giving me a headache.

Man, we should be proud of what has been accomplished here. The creativity, selflessness, cooperation, dedication and just plain HARD WORK of most of the participants in this movement has been inspiring... almost gives me a new hope for America.


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[jmhelms]

Awesome now lets focus on the task at hand.