Hi, I’m in the midst of redoing one of my sites which needs to become a membership site with a small annual payment. Does anyone have any recommendations for a widget or plug-in that will work with Adobe Muse or Freeway Pro or…?
I am quite certain that I want to avoid WordPress - the mere thought of it sends shivers down my spine.
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You’re going to need to use some sort of a server-side scripting system to do this, because you have to intercept every request, check if the user is authenticated (or has a cookie saying they authenticated recently) and then either redirect them to the payment system or allow them through to the page they wanted.
Systems that do this include http://www.wildapricot.com and http://www.phpmembers.com , but these usually impose a serious restriction on what your site will look like, since they are highly templated (like WordPress) and don’t wrap around fully-designed pages.
I wrote something a number of years ago that could wrap around a Freeway site, but I can’t lay my hands on it right now. All it did was check if the user was authenticated – it didn’t handle any payment or other issues.
Walter
On Jan 29, 2017, at 5:46 PM, Elizabeth email@hidden wrote:
Hi, I’m in the midst of redoing one of my sites which needs to become a membership site with a small annual payment. Does anyone have any recommendations for a widget or plug-in that will work with Adobe Muse or Freeway Pro or…?
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Hi Elizabeth
have you thought about Sitelok Buy Membership Software and Systems Online UK | Vibralogix
with sitelok you could convert a freeway site into a membership only or partial membership site and yes there is a freeway action for stitelok
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Hi Max
Thanks and for reminding me about Vibralogix - I use one of their apps already! And Adrian is so helpful, I’ll check, not sure if it will work with Muse, strictly speaking .php doesn’t, but he got it working me on another site made with Muse.
Wondering when/if/what’s happening with Softpress….
E.
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Hi Elizabeth
have you thought about Sitelok Buy Membership Software and Systems Online UK | Vibralogix
with sitelok you could convert a freeway site into a membership only or partial membership site and yes there is a freeway action for stitelok
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Thanks for the suggestions Walter,
You are right, wild apricot isn’t great!
Elizabeth
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You’re going to need to use some sort of a server-side scripting system to do this, because you have to intercept every request, check if the user is authenticated (or has a cookie saying they authenticated recently) and then either redirect them to the payment system or allow them through to the page they wanted.
Systems that do this include http://www.wildapricot.com and http://www.phpmembers.com , but these usually impose a serious restriction on what your site will look like, since they are highly templated (like WordPress) and don’t wrap around fully-designed pages.
I wrote something a number of years ago that could wrap around a Freeway site, but I can’t lay my hands on it right now. All it did was check if the user was authenticated – it didn’t handle any payment or other issues.
Walter
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Hi, I’m in the midst of redoing one of my sites which needs to become a membership site with a small annual payment. Does anyone have any recommendations for a widget or plug-in that will work with Adobe Muse or Freeway Pro or…?
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When you say “membership” I’m curious as to what exactly that means for your site.
Is it simply a matter of creating an “member area” on the server, or do you want your members to manage their own accounts? Do you want to manage the broader site content as well as your members from a single app (CMS) or do you just want to bolt on a 3rd Party “members” app onto a static site?
My point is a “membership site” is a vague term that can encompass a whole lot, or very little. Without knowing the specifics of what you want it’s difficult to offer an informed suggestion.
Todd
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Hi Todd
It’s actually subscription, so that only subscribers will be able to read the majority of the specialist articles and some other things… with a small annual fee.
Elizabeth
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When you say “membership” I’m curious as to what exactly that means for your site.
Is it simply a matter of creating an “member area” on the server, or do you want your members to manage their own accounts? Do you want to manage the broader site content as well as your members from a single app (CMS) or do you just want to bolt on a 3rd Party “members” app onto a static site?
My point is a “membership site” is a vague term that can encompass a whole lot, or very little. Without knowing the specifics of what you want it’s difficult to offer an informed suggestion.
Todd
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A few years ago I built http://plasticvilleusa.org/ and it is a membership site. I built the site in FreeWay. On the server side I required a password for everything inside this folder: http://plasticvilleusa.org/membersonly/login.html
I’ve considered exploring sitelok to provide members ability to reset passwords and a few other things, but this is a small membership site so what we have works for us. The member payment is handled via PayPal. I have two FreeWay docs, one for the “free” site and another for the “membership” site. It takes some careful planning and linking the pages together between the two FreeWay documents, but it is certainly do-able.
I hope this helps.
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Thanks Doty,
I had to rebuild this site and because at the time Freeway was not continuing, I did so in Adobe Muse, which I love working in and with which I have created several client sites. The only thing is with Muse is that it’s a little tricky setting up memberships and selling downloadables, however, thanks to the wonderful Adrian at Linklok it can be done. He is a great help, so I’m sticking with this now.
Appreciate your input.
Elizabeth
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A few years ago I built http://plasticvilleusa.org/ and it is a membership site. I built the site in FreeWay. On the server side I required a password for everything inside this folder: http://plasticvilleusa.org/membersonly/login.html
I’ve considered exploring sitelok to provide members ability to reset passwords and a few other things, but this is a small membership site so what we have works for us. The member payment is handled via PayPal. I have two FreeWay docs, one for the “free” site and another for the “membership” site. It takes some careful planning and linking the pages together between the two FreeWay documents, but it is certainly do-able.
I hope this helps.
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