Creating a members area

hi,

I am quite new to website design but have been doing a few tutorials on using dreamweaver etc. I am hoping to design a site wichi contains a members area and where every member has a profile. I was just wondering where to start and whether there is an easy way of doing this?

Thanks for your help

To start, you will need to know quite a bit of PHP and MySQL (of course HTML and CSS aswell ). If you don't know these yet, have a look in the relevant sections for sticky threads that contain resources for learning.

Cheers,
Marc

What kind of site are you creating?

If it's a blog type site, I would suggest one of the following.

If not ... if you just want an administration type thing, then you'll need a database (MySQL) and PHP or ASP (or .NET)

For a member registration/login system have a look here http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/C...ship-System/1/

You could also look into securing the database by using mysql_real_escape_string

or if you would like them to be ASP, visit my sticky thread for a complete step by step guide for you to build a login page.

For the member profile, that would be next, I mean after you know how to build a login page and successfully login into the system, then you could assign each user a profile (that allow them to see certain thing in the page, like admin can add or delete, but staff could not, something like that...)