Simplest Registration Process

[Batch]

Hi

Need advice.

I want to reduce the steps in the registration process of my site. How do I do that.

Or which field I will made mandatory for all members. My basic motto is to consume less amount of my visitors.

Please help.

[scottdizzle]

Do you need help coding a registration form or do you just want to know what are the minimum necessary fields to gather from users?

If I wanted it simple, I'd just gather:

username:
password:
password: (repeat)

and perhaps email for lost password retrieval or verification

[bogs]

or maybe try to use captcha.. to avoid some spammers..

[Dan Williamson]

Originally Posted by scottdizzle

Do you need help coding a registration form or do you just want to know what are the minimum necessary fields to gather from users?

If I wanted it simple, I'd just gather:

username:
password:
password: (repeat)

and perhaps email for lost password retrieval or verification

Always have a human-verification slot like on V7N registration and Hotmail etc where you have to enter the ID in the image. It stops spammers and bots.

[scottdizzle]

I've found it useful to mirror their registration info (not password cause I feel that's crappy to be able to see peoples passwords so even though I COULD, I won't) into my email so I'm notified of every new sign-up so if I do get spammers and bots I can remove them quickly as soon as they do it.

You can usually tell by the email they register with.

[Dan Williamson]

Originally Posted by scottdizzle

I've found it useful to mirror their registration info (not password cause I feel that's crappy to be able to see peoples passwords so even though I COULD, I won't) into my email so I'm notified of every new sign-up so if I do get spammers and bots I can remove them quickly as soon as they do it.

You can usually tell by the email they register with.

Not to appear argumentative, but why let them? It takes less work not to let the majority of the crappy ones spam you, just the good ones, much less work

[scottdizzle]

Oh I agree 100% captcha is great.. but nothing is fool-proof and I can't stand leaving loose-ends up on my site.. so I just like little notifications to make sure stuff isn't getting ruined.. I guess I'm just over particular?

[Batch]

Thank you guys.

Few more suggesstions required. How do I protect my sites from false registration. Like I have got few of the registration where wrong email ids have been used as a email confirmation is not there for those sites. Is there any strategy which I can follow so that more and more genuine member we can achieve.

[stewart]

You could just make confirming/verifying email optional, to an extent. give some sort of reward for them confirming email.. ;D

Thats, to me at least, the most annoying part of any registration process, having to have a valid email and go check it and verify the email address...

[scottdizzle]

Thats, to me at least, the most annoying part of any registration process, having to have a valid email and go check it and verify the email address...

That's why they do it it ensures you must really want to be a member if you'll go through all that work and effort! So, I appreciate that and follow the rules.

As far as incorrect emails.. what about having a double email field for verification?

[Selif]

Originally Posted by scottdizzle

Do you need help coding a registration form or do you just want to know what are the minimum necessary fields to gather from users?

If I wanted it simple, I'd just gather:

username:
password:
password: (repeat)

and perhaps email for lost password retrieval or verification

I'd go with that and use a captcha (though I'd want to be sure the images didn't cause major eyestrain trying to read them. IMO *MOST* captchas are nearly unreadable to me and the "hear it" options never work.