Hi, I have been designing a website with Frontpage 2002. As I have no knowledge of ASP.NET and other authentification processes I thought Id ask in here. Apologies if this is a dumb post but im going round in circles on google! Basically, ive created a website (unhosted yet) but on the index page there is a form for members to login. (page was taken from a template disk) In the HTML code this form relates to a .CSV file. Where I persume I can create a list of usernames/passwords. But I dont know how to do this! (i have excel!..) I have researched Javascript but this appears to be unsecure. All i want it is either a program or when I can obtain a source code so that I can update a list of user names and password for the LogIn form to verify against each time a user logs in, gaining them access to the members area of my site. The registration process will consist of where a user selects at user/pass and I update the list accordingly. I will be publishing the site so would want the password list protected from the parent directory. I hope this makes sense and you get an idea what I want. If anyone has the time and patience to guide me through (in laymans terms!) of how I would go about this, i would be very grateful.

You need to do this with a server side scripting language. So, the language you choose will depend upon the type that your hosting company supports (if any). The most common would be PHP (PHP Script) or ASP (VBScript or JavaScript). Note that serverside javascript is not inherently insecure as client side javascript is. The next question is how many members will you have. If it is too many then you will need to use a database instead of a csv file. You say you have a template that utilizes a csv file, but that you only have Excel. Excel has the option to save to a csv (comma separated values) file. Michael J