I have a website but....?

[princess]

How do i make it so only paying members can see the members site? I have paypal set up and can have members only pages but want people to be able to click the paypal button and join before they can see the members pages! Hope that makes sense!

[Claudia]

I wouldn't give you a dime to join your site if I could not see what your site is about and what you have. How about making it so they can have a trial for a few days and then if they don't buy a membership they get locked out. How to do it, I don't know but Ive been to plenty of sites that have that feature.

[Mandingo]

Agree with Claudia

[J]

there are numerous ways to implement what you are trying to achieve. it depends mostly on your site's coding. by that is it hard coded or a CMS platform.

eg: a CMS platform like WordPress gives you the ability to have a totally free and interactive front end that can get you traffic, setup social accounts, as well as sell products. to this you could add list building software. then on the backend you could have more free and premium content that requires either registration and or payments.

the biggest problem on a premium content area is SECURITY. that is followed by quality coding. unfortunately, to achieve these eliminates the 'pretty' look.

if you want to see some of this go to this link for the front end components, the backend starts at a 'landing page' - to see that click on 'free tools'

http://poormansseo.com/

if you want to see the backend beyond the landing page, you must become a member- even free members can see and use it

btw.. to implement this you need a good hosting company that does not oversell their servers such as

http://bypasshost.com

[Mainak]

You can start your site on WordPress and there are many WordPress plugins for creating membership sites that allow people to download content only after paying via PayPal.