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I had been following the jambor-ee.com “Building an EE Site in 24 Days” and was intrigued how they were going to implement the member login form (and other member forms) into the design of the site. From most other EE websites I’ve seen, when the user interacts with a member template, they are taken out of the custom designed templates and taken into EE’s member templates, that while functional they are not pretty.

Are bits and pieces of these member templates (like the login form) available to implement into a site? Isn’t the CSS controlled in the /system/member PHP ? It seems that every other aspect of EE is extremely easy for me to customize and I love EE. But I seem to be scared of diving into the member templates.

Can anyone share some insight/wisdom/tips into using the member templates? I’m going to be developing a very large (several hundred users) and I really want to use EE, but I afraid if the member templates are difficult to work with, it may not be a good option.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ben

Hey, Ben—

You could always use the User module from solspace.com.  I tend to go in and modify the member templates and once you get used to it, it’s really not that hard.  I just redid mine a week or so ago starting from the Minimalist theme - was very easy to work with.

If you’re not comfortable with modifying the PHP files, I’d recommend going via Admin -> Members & Groups -> Membership Templates.  That’ll insulate you from the PHP while still letting you perform your modifications.

You might also have a look at the Member Template Guide; the author never finished it, but it’ll give you a basic idea of how things work.