Website automation

Website automation help

[exp2004]

Hello everyone,
I have a free download website which have not been automated.

I think automating the web site will improve users sign up.
I need help about getting the website automated so that software submission will be easy for users

Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated

Thanks
Victoria

[robert adams]

Hi, a little more info would help. What you said really doesn't make much sense. Please try again so we can answer your questions.
What exactly do you want your site to do, what do you want your visitors to do, etc.

luck,
robert

[exp2004]

I want my website to be able to sign up users
Ok I have an example
www.download.net is the example of what I really want.

Thanks

[edited by: oilman at 12:41 am (utc) on Jan. 9, 2004]
[edit reason] no urls please [/edit]

[IeuanJ]

Hi there, I think what you are talking about is making your site database driven.

For this you need obviously a database, which one would depend on your webserver and how much money you want to put in. I would recommend MySQL if you dont want to spend but do have control over your webserver.

The database would contain all the information that you want displayed.

You would then need to create the code to extract that information and display it. You could use wither ASP or PHP for this.

Finally you can also use this database in order to set up user accounts with usernames/passwords. Users would register and sign in via online forms, which the ASP/PHP would use to query your database (e.g. to check passwords). I would also advise you look up some kind of encryption algorithm for passwords as well.

All of the information, tutorials and sample code you need for this can be found for free on the web. Decent places to start for the coding are sites like www.w3schools.com.

If you have programming experience it makes the whole process much easier, if not then it could be a long task.