I think people tend to over analyze what they are expecting see. On any page, simply make a link to your secure area from a button or text. When someone clicks that link, it will prompt them to log in. My example below showed that.

However, here is a simple Website at http://hotsync.net/wamtest/ Click on the services tab at the top and log in with the information below.

user: wamtest
pass: coffeecup

This Website was made with Visual Site Designer and I simply linked one of the top menu items to a secure folder.

As Scott and others have mentioned a quick example is here
http://myofficialnewbie.com/VSD/
being just a text site click on the tutorials link.
user=coffeecup
pass=coffeecup

ok i'm slow today Scott lol

STUPENDOUS!!! That's excellent Scott and Bruzer - exactly what I was after, and now this swings my purchasing the program outright and getting to know it.

Thank you guys - hit the nail on the head.

Scott - thanks for brilliant support for your products, as ever.


Arif

Don't forget that you can actually make a Members Only button on your menu and make it seem like a normal login too, this would give the people you want to give access an easy way to find where to get to the private access only area. It's all just a link in the end

OK i tried both example sites, I never got a request for a password or userid on either, I am using Windows 7, Firefox 3.5.5 and IE 8.0. ?

The authentication for those sites was just temporary so users could see it. It was removed because we did not want to permanently lock out our sites.

ok, thanks

Hiya Lewis,

I set up a page that I'll try to keep there permanently for people to test WAM on the end user side. You can access it with the following info:

http://wolverana.com/wamtestfolder (go to this site location)

ID: ccpeople
PW: testwam (enter this ID & PW when the box pops up)

That's all there is to it, you should now have access to that site page. If it were your site you can use it to give access to whatever folder or pages or documents or files or whatever that you wanted to setup.

Hope this helps

Well this may be an unexpected flip side, but I am getting this to protect the admin area of my cms joomla site.

Why? Because all of the backend-access plugins I have looked at can backfire and interfere with the joomla cms display. I would rather use a non-joomla external software just to prevent access to the administration except for those I designate. Believe me, it is a FAR simpler solution, then using any of the 1/2 dozen plugins/mods/components that require complex setup. Not to mention, many of them have bugs, can cause your site to act weird, and end up a big big headache.

Yes, I use the joomla for member logins, but I feel using this for administration login will give me an easy extra security, as there is no way to hide the joomla administration folder, unless you use a certain cms and that one does not allow paid memberships.

I just wanted to post this to show why a cms system is not the total solution, and why even someone using a cms system would choose to protect part of it with a simple program like this: simple is the word here. Joomla solutions are anything but simple and usually involve coders overseas who give less than desired support, if at all.

Joomla cms can be great, but its complexity is also a nightmare. It can be easier to set up 70 pages for 70 members straightforward and use this little device than try to get a smooth flowing joomla setup to do what you want, because usually it involves adding on a lot of other 3rd party components, and there the headaches begin!

Amen to that Vivian, you said a mouthful and all of it true where Joomla is concerned. And at this time Joomla doesn't even support multiple user levels that I'm aware of (planned for 6.0 version last I heard unless it came out early?) so you end up having to purchase many extra addons just to make a good membership setup for your site. Quite a pain, and I think the WAM will do perfectly for what you're thinking of. Good luck with it and have a great holiday