[concreteweb]

Hi Chuck,

Surprisingly, we are finding that people are getting confused about registering and then getting logged in. (Makes me think I'm dealing with AOL'ers of the mid-90's.)

Anyway, to be fair, we are attracting fairly new (inexperienced) users to our sites. To make this as short as possible - here are bullet points:

1. They register. They see this: Thanks for registering. Please check your email for instructions on activating your new account.

2. They get the email. They click on link. They see this: Thanks for confirming your account. It is now active!! Return to the front page of xxx.

Now, they browse around and get frustrated and leave because they cannot post an ad. Why? Because they need to "login in again". To the untrained user, everything looks like they should be ready to post - but we've had complaints from several new users that they can't find the button to post! Reason is...they don't know that they need to log in again.

Is there a way to push a cookie when you register...validate...and when you end up back on the classifieds site, you are recognized and logged in already?

(I changed the language string to basically say...Don't forget to login! But people just don't grok it.)

Thanks for your thoughts! It's a super minor issue - but we are finding that it is a 4 foot speed bump for newbies.