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Hi guys.

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Welcome back.

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This is Angela from The App Brewery, and it's a new day, which means that it's time for a new project.

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So in the coming lessons, we're going to be building something really exciting, at least

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I'm really excited to build it with you.

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So far none of our web apps that we have built have been deployed, and none of them have really been

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all that exciting to deploy,

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to be honest. But everything is going to change for the next project.

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So the web app that we're going to be building is a newsletter app. So I'm probably signed up to far

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too many newsletters, but some of them are real gems, and I really enjoy reading them.

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So if you are somebody who wants to set up your own newsletter, where you want to email people who are

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interested in hearing from you, well, then you need a sign up page, right?

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So this is what we're going to be building.

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It's a single page web site that looks pretty nice, and on the front end it looks incredibly simple, but

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on the backend it's got some powerful functionality that will allow you to sign people up to your mailing

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list.

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So let's give it a go.

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Let's try,

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say, let's say that Jack Bauer wanted to sign up to my mailing list.

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Now once I click sign up, if it was successful then I get taken to the success page, and if it wasn't

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then I will get a failure page.

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So now, finally, we were successful, and the data that we entered into that collection box doesn't just

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disappear.

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No. It gets sent to our list on MailChimp, and all of that data gets added into our list, and our new subscriber

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gets added.

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So that means now you can go ahead and send your newsletters, or your email campaigns, to your subscribers,

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and this list will build up as more and more people subscribe to your newsletter.

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So the special part of this web site is that, if you look at up here, that is not a localhost anymore.

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This is an actual HTTPS web site, and you can include this URL in your socials, on Facebook,

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Instagram.

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And anybody can access this, because it's now on the World Wide Web.

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So this is going to be a really cool and really useful web site

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by the time that you've finished making it, and it's all down to this integration with MailChimp. And

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we're going to explore how to work with their APIs, and how to post data and communicate with their server

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in order to send them pieces of data that we want them to hold on to.

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So I hope you're excited. Once you're ready,

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let’s head over to the next lesson.