Registration form/ Sign in page

Hmm! Why does this feel more like a link drop than a serious question?

What's the PR got to do with anything ?

If (this is legit) { need more info. Signup form for what mailing list mebership ect. What language eg php asp } else { don't spam in our forum};

Hello,
It's not a link drop or spam . This forum was recommended to me by a good friend who told me that I will find specialists' advice here. I need advice on that registration form which is a simple membership sign in form.I really need your help. Can you give me a link on how to create an attractive sign in form. Thank you.

Just to clarify what you want, you want just advise on how to make it look visually pleasing to to visitor, not asking how to make it work, what to ask for, what to do with the information when they submit it, etc?

From your original post:

"What are the obsticles?" Well this depends on your abilities. To many people, being able to program the server side as to what to do with the information, this would be an obsticle, to me, it is fun. You need to give more inforation, what experiance do you have, what do you think you can do.

"how can I know when I will design my registration form I will have the best solution?" You can know this by having a list of all your concerns about what the registration should do clearly stated before anything is done, especially if you are going to have someone else do it. Give lots of examples. (Preferable ones that do not take forever to load as yourexample did).

Judging from your example you gave, and how general your questions are, I am guess you are someone with limited design experience, and very limited, if any at all, programming experience.

To create the signup system to be perfect functionly and visually, you need:

1. Know the different browsers out there (and different versions) and how they handle things such as CSS to make the form fields look. This may limit you on how the form will finally look.
2. Know everything you will want to collect from the user up front to decide what to put in the form.
3. Be able to visally design the look of the page, either yourself or get someone to come up with a look for you, including graphics, layout, color schemes. (this is the part I really suck at)
4. Take that visual design and code it into a valid proper web page that will produce the look you want in many different browsers. Different browsers display things differently.
5. Decide upon a language and database to use to handle all of the information you collect. (I prefer PHP and mySQL)
6. Program the scripts to validate all the information (check for required info, check for duplicate sign ups, look for invalid data). Then save it out to database, and e-mail you and the user with a welcome.
7. Write a login program that will accept their log in information and check it with the information stored in the database. Also pages to handle if they forgot their login info.
8. Provide the main content for the site.
9. Promote the site, get lots of visitors

As you can see, it is not a simple case of "how do i make a registration form that will be complete".

If this is for a real site, I would suggest finding someone to either work on it for you (may have to pay them). If this is just a learning experience, then take my list above and start working on each section, ask here in the appropriate areas for help on the different parts. This will help stay focused on the current task and get more poeple to help you becasue they know the specific part you are asking about.

Welcome to the forums, I hope you will find them very helpful in learning to make websites.

-Greg

Thanks a lot Greg for your programming advice, it means a lot. I need also from the consumer behavior point of view (when somebody wants to complete the registration form) what are the main obstacles in completing one. What are the DOs and DO NOTs in a registration form? And how can I find that my final "registration form" is the best solution?

I would suggest, if you aren't very experienced with coding, to use something from http://hotscripts.com.