Can somobody please explain to me - in detail as much as possible - how I can ... ?

Question

... use Microsoft FrontPage to design a web page that asks its visitor to pass a password check first otherwise he/she cannot enter into the next page?

I do NOT want to get into HTML language and tags. I heard that it can all be done from inside FrontPage without any HTML stuff. Right?

Answer 1

This isn't possible to do securely within frontpage. This isn't even possible with HTML tags. To have a user login form, you need a web-based programming language, such as PHP. If you trust frontpage for this, then I can guarantee you it won't be secure, frontpage alone can't do much. For instance, you could type in the URL for the page directly and completely bypass the user authentication form. And since the complete url to the page has to be in the form for it to pass on, anyone who knows the basics of HTML will be able to do this.

My suggestion is to learn HTML (it really isnt that hard...promise!), and learn a web-based programming language. Either that, or you can hire a programmer to do it for you.

Answer 2

If your server has FrontPage Extensions installed, and you are not using the IIS Web server, then you can use the FrontPage Tools, Permissions where you can assign user id's and passwords.

Steps:

Open Web in FrontPage Explorer.
Click on Tools, Permissions.
Select Unique Permissions for this web, and click apply.
Click on the users tab, and start adding users.
Make sure you select the radio button that states only registered users can browse the web.

Answer 3

"I heard that it can all be done from inside FrontPage without any HTML stuff. Right?"

Not right. You have to use HTML or DHTML to write a web page before publishing it.

Answer 4

Here is a ready made script just follow the direction and past into your html.

http://javascript.internet.com/passwords/password-pro-in.html