Hello I want to create a membership site which includes various units/learning modules for the students to buy. currently I use www.1shoppingcart.com payment processor for my DVD products. The site I want to create will have flash videos and quizzes etc made using software from articulate. My question is do I need additional software to upload the content of the course made using the articulate software onto the membership site and is it possible once the people have bought one unit for them to see on their log in page from your membership site other units that they are available to buy. I want to be able to constantly add more units for the students to purchase as I develop my products so that when they log into their page they see that different units are available to buy. also it is possible for the membership site to have the same logo/banners as my normal website sorry for the long ramble but I wanted to make sure it does exactly what I want before I buy it...or if someone could give me suggestions on the best way around it. for your reference my site is www.learnsignlanguage.co.uk where we sell british sign language dvd's and I want to create these dvd's into an online learning course. I also want to develop different countries sign language online learning and so may want to charge various units in alternative currency? hope you can help thanks Sonia
These files are flash and you would upload them to your site just like any other file. The most popular technique would be to use a FTP program. Since these are fairly large files you will need a web hosting account with a fairly large bandwidth limit. An option would be to load the media files to a content delivery network (CDN) like Amazon S3 and link to them from your membership pages. If you use this approach, you will need to lock down access to these files. There are several ways to do this. You would not typically have a person redirected to the products page every time they login. I would make posts about new products on the home page that link to the products page. You will have to "theme" the aMember pages to match your site's theme by editing the aMember header file, footer file, and stylesheet file. When this is done well, when you go from the site to an aMember page, it is a seamless transition. For an example, take a look at the website in my signature. When you click on the "Sign Up" link in the login box, you will be going from a WordPress page to an aMember page. There are tutorials available on how to make this integration (Membership Academy is a source) and coders that will do this for a modest fee.