Query: How do I design an ENTER page?

[John]

Hi all,

Can anyone advise me on how to create an ENTER page, by which I mean
the home page that the visitor first comes to, but then must press an
ENTER button or similar after reading an agreement, for them to enter
the rest of the site.
And obviously, it would need some form of protection against anyone
bookmarking the other pages.

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA.

 

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The enter page will be your home page (index.htm, index.html, default.htm or default.html whatever your host server permits - it will be one of these).

Then your enter button will take you to whatever you want to call your next page.

Not sure I understand the second question about bookmarking.

hth.


| Hi all,
|
| Can anyone advise me on how to create an ENTER page, by which I mean
| the home page that the visitor first comes to, but then must press an
| ENTER button or similar after reading an agreement, for them to enter
| the rest of the site.
| And obviously, it would need some form of protection against anyone
| bookmarking the other pages.
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
|
| TIA.
|

 

[Guest]

You could create a cookie that gets set when the user clicks the Agreement button (or whatever you choose to use) You probably can't really prevent someone from bookmarking a page inside that sight but you could run script (either asp or javascript) to see it the cookie exists and what it's value is, then if they don't have the cookie, redirect them back to the main page

Make Sense

Rhonda

 

[Jesse Hand]

Could he use frames so that the only url visible would be www.hisdomain.com?

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You could create a cookie that gets set when the user clicks the Agreement

button (or whatever you choose to use) You probably can't really prevent
someone from bookmarking a page inside that sight but you could run script
(either asp or javascript) to see it the cookie exists and what it's value
is, then if they don't have the cookie, redirect them back to the main page.

 

[Mike Mueller]

On your "Enter' page, have the agreement on there and place
a form on there with the I Accept or Do Not Accept options.
For the form handler, send it to a custom ASP page and code
it to create a session variable reflecting their response.
After that variable is set, redirect them to the pages you
want depending on their response. On the pages you want
protected, save those as ASP pages also and add code to the
top of each page to check for the session variable. If that
variable does not have your desired value in it, redirect
them back to the 'Enter' page. Even if they bookmark it,
without the session variable they cannot proceed and would
get kicked back to the enter page.

Mike


John wrote:
: Hi all,
:
: Can anyone advise me on how to create an ENTER page, by
: which I mean the home page that the visitor first comes
: to, but then must press an ENTER button or similar after
: reading an agreement, for them to enter the rest of the
: site.
: And obviously, it would need some form of protection
: against anyone bookmarking the other pages.
:
: Any help would be appreciated.
:
: TIA.

 

[John]

Ok, many thanks for the advice.

 

[Andrew Murray]

open a new page.....design it how you like, and stick a link that says "ENTER" on
it to your 'main' page.

you can use an image/button or text link - some 'splash pages' have Flash intros
and so on you can be as boring or elaborate as you like but remember if you have
a flash intro remember the 'skip intro' link!

 

[Andrew Murray]

You can't prevent people book marking any page (if you mean for the purpose of
bypassing your enter page unless you need people to log on to the site for
example, in which case you'd need a function to check that a person has loged on
e.g. check for a cookie or whatever).

but otherwise it may turn people off to force them to see your 'enter page'
first.


The enter page will be your home page (index.htm, index.html, default.htm or
default.html whatever your host server permits - it will be one of these).

Then your enter button will take you to whatever you want to call your next
page.

Not sure I understand the second question about bookmarking.

hth.


| Hi all,
|
| Can anyone advise me on how to create an ENTER page, by which I mean
| the home page that the visitor first comes to, but then must press an
| ENTER button or similar after reading an agreement, for them to enter
| the rest of the site.
| And obviously, it would need some form of protection against anyone
| bookmarking the other pages.
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
|
| TIA.
|

 

[Mike Mueller]

It is true they would need to 'Enter' each time, but it will
reduce the effectiveness of any bookmars, which was also
desired.

Mike


message
: You wouldn't want to use a session Variable unless you
really want to force a user to go back the main page and
accept the agreement everytime they come to the site. If
you want to allow users to come back tomorrow and not have
to accept the agreement again, Session Variables would not
be the answer. You could an Application Variable or a
cookie.