I’m currently in the process of rewriting mmsnko.net in a more, user accessible fashion. The old mmsnko.net was only really used by the people that knew me, and that I could explain to them how to use it. This isn’t really … usable.
To market a website successfully, it needs to either explain itself, or be easily understandable, so I’ve taken steps to work all that jazz out.
The other thing I’ve needed to do, which mmsnko.net couldn’t, is user registrations.
Previously, if a user wanted to register an account, they’d need to contact myself and I’d need to look at the database to figure out how I added users, as I’d forgotted since last I’d created one. Then I’d need to figure out how the user connects with the file system to store images, and the whole thing was generally a great big shemozzle.
So, as said, I’ve needed to whip together a user registration system, where the user can simply and easily hop onto a page, fill in a couple of text fields, hit submit and they’ve got an account, all setup and ready to go. Alot of this was simplified by the database design of the system, but I guess I can cover that in another article. Continue reading