Hi Guys, I want to just share with you a small mac application that i’ve been working on. It makes password protecting your blocs pages simple and easy.
Why hide the url as a bit.ly address and send us to mediafire for the PDF download? After downloading the PDF I was immediately forwarded to a suspect page that told me my version of flash was out of date, which automatically downloaded the installer. Why not just house the PDF on your own server or Google drive for example without the security risk to Blocs users?
Ok, so say you have a page that you would only like certain visitors to be able to access, for example a members area where you have to know the password to enter. You would fire up the app and choose your password. You would then click export and save the file. The file that is produced is a javascript file. This can then be attached to the members area page in blocs so when the site is exported from blocs and ran in a web browser whenever a user tries to access that page they’re created with a popup box which makes then enter a password before being able to see the page. If they get it wrong they’re then taken back to the homepage of the site.
Very Cool!
Is it one password per page? What if you have different user and you want a separate password for each user? Can the be used on different pages? Example: One on Services… One on Products?
Interesting password solution. Securing a web site page with a password is a surprisingly common requirement.
Charging £4 is too low and you should be charging a lot more because you will get a lot of support questions from this type of solution. As an example a somewhat similar solution - Page Safe Stack for RapidWeaver sells for $40 for Rapidweaver. By charging more you could add a custom login animation and make it the coolest solution out there (before someone else does). See Signup and Password Field Reaction for Yeti Mascot on Login Form – CodeMyUI
Also if this solution works well then you could market it to other web creation apps - i.e. swap the Blocs branding for those other apps - wink wink.