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How to Achieve Painless Registration
- NathanKP 17y agoTo improve my signup rate I took the leap of faith of making the sign form have four fields: name, email, and two password fields. I don't even require an image verification. After signup the user is directed to their account panel on which they can fill out any extra details that they may want to provide.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoDont require password confirmation if you have an email.. they can always use the lost/forgot password feature.
- NathanKP 17y agoVery true. I could probably remove the second password field without any loss.
- blasdel 17y agoThe second password field is necessary to avoid confusing your users. It's the only element that can cleanly disambiguate between a normal 'sign in' and a clean 'sign up'.
- derefr 17y agoOr, even more spartan, don't ask for a password: the sign up box would just be an email address field with a button labeled "Sign Up" next to it. You could autogenerate the password and let them change it later, or just ask for it once you click the emailed link. As well, you could reformat the address recipient part into a valid username and default to that, but offer then the option of changing it any time in the first 48 hours, as a preference.
- yannis 17y agoTwo fields is adequate. Image verification can be staged. With Javascript you can check that someone is actually clicking and not show a captcha. However, if JavaScript is switched off you can show a captcha so that you can stop bots trying to register.
- covercash 17y agoWhat fields did you have before your leap of faith?
- NathanKP 17y agoBefore I had image verification, and all the details required at sign up. Now users can fill in their extra details later.
- tdoggette 17y agoI really wish that he blogged every week.