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I am in the process of making a website. I have five navigational buttons on the home page. I want to have an overlay with an image appear that states to the affect " must buy product to get access to website". When visitor clicks on any of the navigational buttons initially. Only after visitor pays for the product I am offering, will the overlay go away to give access to navigational buttons to navigate on the website. What programing language do I need to know to be able to set this procedure up? Can you suggest a book I can read to learn How to do this?
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  • For the UI aspect, you will need JavaScript and CSS. jQuery would be an easy way to implement an overlay.

    You will need to protect the content server-side as well. What platform is the content served on? Is it PHP or straight HTML? Are you using a content management system?
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    • I might be getting in over my head. But that don't stop me from learning what I need to know to get the job done. I don't know what you mean about the content server or content management system. Please explain in not to technical terms if possible, or recommend a book on this subject about content management system. I was told I can keep a data base of my customers using PHP.
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  • Another option, and I don't know if this would be possible in your situation. Have a fake menu, just an image of a menu, when any one clicks (that is not logged in as a member), it pops a pop-up saying they have to be a member to access the content.

    This can be done pretty easy with wordpress and a good membership plugin. The membership plugins I've used have tags that can show certain content to non-members, content that doesn't show to members logged in. And of course it will show other content to members that are logged.

    Sounds like you want a membership anyways, so you'll need a system for that anyways.

    Does that help? Or am I not understanding what your asking?
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    • Yes Ron, that is exactly what I am attempting to do with my website. But I don't want to use Wordpress. I plan on coding the complete website with html5, CSS3, Javascript and Jquery.
  • If you change your mind on Wordpress, OptimizePress will let you do this pretty easily.
  • The other thing, WHY spending all that time and frustration creating something from scratch (that might not even get finished) when you can use something that is ready to go? And even free!

    Sorry doesn't make sense. Unless you have tons of free time and you need a hobby?

    Years back I made the huge mistake of trying to learn PHP. I spent SO much time, wasted so much time, when I could have done more important things like marketing, promotion and making more money.
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    Overlay

    I am in the process of making a website. I have five navigational buttons on the home page. I want to have an overlay with an image appear that states to the affect " must buy product to get access to website". When visitor clicks on any of the navigational buttons initially. Only after visitor pays for the product I am offering, will the overlay go away to give access to navigational buttons to navigate on the website. What programing language do I need to know to be able to set this procedure up? Can you suggest a book I can read to learn How to do this?