Most membership organisations (like political parties, clubs, societies, governing bodies, interest groups, colleges and schools) can be set up as a Membership Sign-In Portal website.  This page outlines what's involved.  With good advice, a sound, viable and productive site can be set up with no coding.  However - before starting  - a businesslike approach and a structured identification of roles and responsibilities is required. Pricing: If you have a large organisation of several thousand registered users, the cost per user can be expressed in pence-per-anum.  The mailing savings will be enormous, and, as users look after their own Registration Profile, the administration overheads can be reduced overnight.

Getting your own domain name is vital for the success of a worthwhile website.  This defines the url (Universal Address) for your email and your web pages and business-functions.  This name remains constant allowing you to change providers without requiring to change your address.

Be aware that organisations which opt for "free" hosting on Junk community sites, are compromising themselves by becoming a front for a 3rd party organisation for which they have no control or jurisdiction.  For instance (Made-up example) yoursite.AmericanJunk.com is not yoursite.  It has become a sub-domain - actually part of AmericanJunk's domain!

 

Asperto.Net can register domains for you, or you could go to any other Domain Name Registration site like UKReg.Com.  This sets up a receiver address for all the email and website traffic that is directed at the domain name.  The DNS settings on the Domain-Name host contain the location ID of your Webserver and E-Mail Server.  Usually, organisations already have their Domain Name Registered.  However in that case, the DNS settings on it need to be changed to point at Asperto.Net's Hosting Space.  For that reason your Domain Name Registration Provider needs to offer you a comprehensive control panel that will allow the switching of the DNS (Domain Names Service) to channel all your domain's internet traffic to Asperto.Net's servers instead.

Asperto.Net configures the portal website.  The Administrative user-accounts are created, the website is configured to send admin email messages from itself to the administrators.  The look-and-feel is controlled as a completely replaceable system of skins and containers. Administrators can then sign-in and configure the content that is presented to the public and filtered content by Role.  Roles are part of the organisation and partitioning of users in the registered membership into functional groupings. Each page when created, forms a menu item and the pages can easily be moved around the menus. On the pages, a template indicates "panels" into which the page admin can drop business modules.  These appear within containers on the page.  The most commonly used business module is the Text/HTML module that is used to carry the content in a managed way.

Asperto.Net configures the portal website.  The Administrative user-accounts are created, the website is configured to send admin email messages from itself to the administrators.  The look-and-feel is controlled as a completely replaceable system of skins and containers. Administrators can then sign-in and configure the content that is presented to the public and filtered content by Role.  Roles are part of the organisation and partitioning of users in the registered membership into functional groupings. Each page when created, forms a menu item and the pages can easily be moved around the menus. On the pages, a template indicates "panels" into which the page admin can drop business modules.  These appear within containers on the page.  The most commonly used business module is the Text/HTML module that is used to carry the content in a managed way.