Advice on website Urgently Please

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I really need some advice. Urgently.

I am currently processing photos from 2 nursery shoots i did recently. My website was not set up when i started but I promised both parents and nurserys that afterwards parents would be able to view their childrens photos through a secure internet link via my website and would be given a Unique password to do this. ( My partner is in IT and was adamant this was possible).

However I have now hit a huge problem. My partner has delayed starting the site. Straight forward he said! Last night he started putting he childrens names on etc and created passwords for each. BUT when he tried to do this it didnt work and the only option now is to have each nursery and kids names under one section with same one password. Which basically means parents can go on and look at all kids photos as everyone will have same password.

He is using Yola with my domain which i purchased last year. Also Yola puts pics on flicker and Im not sure who can view these.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I am going to have to tell people that there is a link but everyone has one password which in this day and age will not go down well. The only other way i can think to do it is to give them cd's with watermarked images on them but this is going to be time consuming and also I was trying to set paypal option up for payment but this will not be an option if parents start freaking out.

HELP!!!! :(:(:(:(:(:(
 
I run a site for my partners girl guide unit, and have secure area for their photos etc.

I use Coppermine gallery, its free to download and pretty easy to install. It uses a mysql db and users can signup on the site or you can set usernames and passwords for your users yourself. You can individually permission folders within... It fully customisable.

Can be downloaded from here... http://coppermine-gallery.net/tutorial/
 
Hi Geminip,

You haven't said what format you are using for your pages??

e.g ASP, Java Html, CSS. etc, but if it is html, I just found this which is supposed to be free.... I haven't used it but it looks like something you could use... In fact I am gonna keep that link myself it could come in handy

If I wasn't so busy today I would have given it a test. I think simplicity is all that is needed I would imagine most of the parents aren't I.T Whizzkids. If this does the job, then you've cracked it

My advice would be this:-

http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/tools/secure-html.shtml

1. To put each page as the childs name e.g johnsmith.html
2. Obviously, each page has ONLY that childs pics on
3. Make yourself a unique Excel table with all the passwords given - Job done :clap:

As for the Paypal part of things that could get very complex, you would need to read on the Paypal site how to do this. - I'll be honest if you are a first timer I wouldn't say it is easy.... but once you've cracked it, it's O.K.

There is some other software here, the top one "HTML Password Pro Three..." I think is free, but you could have a look at the others.

http://html.software.informer.com/download-html-encrypt-and-password-protect/

Hope this helps

Best of luck :thumbs:
 
Hi Geminip,

Ideally you would look to use a tool already available as mentioned above, or use the security provided by your website provider.

Ideally you need an MySQL (or similar) database to store the usersnames and passwords in, however it will depend if your provider offers this.

If you after a quick fix, and this is not the most secure method but would get you out of a hole, you could greate a single PHP page for each kid and use some PHP code to request and check the password before showing the photos.

THIS IS NOT IDEAL - but would get you out of a hole whilst you finish your site.

p.s should have mentioned that your provider would need PHP installed for your use.

Hope this helps.
 
Thanks for advice and website details :)

Any other ideas regrading payment? I could just say cash payment but i have offered option of canvas etc so if they cant use credit card etc it may limit ££££££.
 
D.S. said:
I run a site for my partners girl guide unit, and have secure area for their photos etc.

I use Coppermine gallery, its free to download and pretty easy to install. It uses a mysql db and users can signup on the site or you can set usernames and passwords for your users yourself. You can individually permission folders within... It fully customisable.

Can be downloaded from here... http://coppermine-gallery.net/tutorial/
Click to expand...

I used Coppermine but it was hacked easily, and looking into it many people had teh same problem.
 
If you set up a business account with Paypal, they provide instructions about linking to your website. Probably easiest method - everyone trusts Paypal
 
I got my domain from fasthosts. Should i pay them to host website????

Dont know how it works but 50% off at min and if they can resolve problems im happy.
 
Just to confirm you purchased your domain from fasthosts - who are you using to host the site?

ClickPic offer the paypal side of things - but not sure about secure pages.
 
Im using Yola to host site.

Thanks for advice on paypal.
 
If your hosting is a Linux server you can use .htaccess for password protection amongst other things, here is a guide read specifically the password protection section http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

Is quite techy but if your partner is in IT shouldn't be a problem

HTH
 
I had a quick look at Yola website and cannot see if they offer MySQL or PHP, but their search returned no hits.

It may be worth you looking at other hosting options, that provide the secure area and paypal services you offer.

How far along is your website? does your partner know if Yola offers PHP? if so then a quick bit of coding might get you sorted until you find an alternative solution
 
with a decent webhost, yuo can either, set security with .htaccess, or setup folders for each person & password protect that folder.
Looking at yola.. I dontthink you`ll be able to do much in the way of configuration to suit yourself.
 
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