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[This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Membership Site Design.]
A basic WordPress installation, plus some basic text-based content, should take up less than 100 MB of space on your host’s server. However, unless you know you won’t be taking up that much space, I’d recommend going with at least 250 MB of space. This gives your site room to grow, and to store lesson content. I do not recommend going with a host who offers you “unlimited space.” Remember, they’re offering that to each and every one of their other customers too, and some of them are going to take as much space as possible. More importantly, they will also take the computing power of that server, leaving you with a slow-running site. (more…)
[This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Membership Site Design.]
There are a number of questions you should ask yourself as you begin to jot your design ideas down. The very first one is: Should I be using a membership site at all? There are options for simpler systems, like putting your content in a password protected directory and giving out the one password to as many people as there are who want to access that information. I have a client who does that with the presentations from their annual conference. (more…)
[This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Membership Site Design.]
A membership site can be used for almost any reason imaginable. There are as many different types of membership sites as there are reasons for joining one. This book focuses on creating educational or learning sites; sites that consist mainly of content behind a membership “wall” that are meant to teach the members new or interesting information, concepts or knowledge.
This specialized information can be lumped together, or broken up into segments or levels (courses). Simple sites will allow the member to access all the information at once, and trusting them to work through it in order, at their own speed. A more complex site can be set up to “drip” the contents to a user at given intervals, like a given number of days apart, or when they’ve indicated that they finished one lesson and are ready to move to the next one. (more…)