what's the best technology for creating a web site which manages users accounts?

Question

I'm going to create a web site which should manage users accounts. A user opens an account and gets relevant data for his needs.

What technology should I be using to create this site? Are there any templates I could use?

I don't have the time to take care of the web site's desgin, Are there any places where I can buy some graphics?

Thanks

Answer 1

Well, if you are going for rapid application development, i suggest using a framework or a CMS as suggested by @Glycerine.

But I am not understanding what you mean by technology? I am not sure that there is anything called "technology" in php.

Apache is a server technology I am familiar with.

Answer 2

You might also consider Google AppEngine, as by using Google Accounts you avoid having to do a lot of the tricky bits related to account management as it's handled for you (and a good number of people will already have accounts, so it's one less step they have to go through to start using your site).

Answer 3

Your question is too general to answer properly. Can you be a bit more specific?

There's a whole stack of technologies you might want to look at. Radius, LDAP, openID OATH, PAM, NTLM, SSL....and that's just for authentication substrate.

Are there any templates I could use?

Eh? The term templates is usually applied to manipulation at the presentation layer - at least 95% of the code to implement such a system has nothing to do with presentation.

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