How to Create a Sign-in Page for a Website

A dynamic web page is a web page that changes each time a person visits the page (or at least changes often, without the user being aware of the changes). One of the easiest ways to make a web page dynamic is to have users who log into the web site. Then the site can build a customized web page and web site that shows only information that the user needs and desires. Setting up a sign-in page for a web site takes a bit of time and effort, however.

Things You'll Need

• Basic knowledge of building web pages and HTML.
• A web-enabled database such as mySQL or Microsoft Access.
• A knowledge of a pre-processing languages such as php or ASP to access the database

Instructions

1. Design the web page that will be used for sign-in. Make sure you include an area for the user login name and password.

2. Build the sign-in page. To do this, include a form tag at the start of your sign-in section. The form tag will need to include the page that will be submitted to and the method to submit. A typical form tag might look like this: <form method="post" action="index.php">

3. Add the two text boxes for your user's name and password after the form tag. An example of these tags are:
   <input type=text name=username>
   <input type=password name=userpassword>
   You can format these and place them wherever you need. You might place them inside a table, for example. Be sure to include text before each one so the user knows that goes in each box.

4. Include a submit button so the user can submit the form once they have filled in the fields. For example:
   <input type=submit value="Login">

5. End the form with another tag: </form>. Now when the user presses the button, the information she entered in the two boxes will be sent to the page described in Step 2.

6. Add processing code in the destination page to check the values that were entered against the database entries.