My Account / Login (Password protected login area)

This page can be used either with your eCommerce store as a “My Account” section where people can login and manage their orders, or it can be used to password protect certain, or all, pages on your site.

This would allow you, for instance, to offer a page of articles and a page of downloads only to people who have registered on your site. You can explain on the login page that they need to register and then log in to access some of your site's content. It's a way to force people to supply you with legitimate content information.

You can also use the login page to protect some of your content from anyone you do not assign a password. So you could use this to give your vendors or customers private access to information on your site that you don't want the general public to access (whether they register or not). You can even sell access to parts of your site from your shopping cart.

You could also protect your entire site using the login page -- such that, when people first come to the site, they are forced to log in before accessing anything at all. If you don't provide them a password, they can't reach anything. (Or perhaps, they can only reach the home page.) This is a way for you to provide access to a specific group of people, such as your employees or your family. (It's a great way to develop a company extranet or a site where you display photos of your kids without anyone but your relatives gaining access.)

The login feature is available as a standard option with any Zip site. An example of how the Login page will look and function can be seen here: http://www.bulaworks.com/example/myaccount.asp