Trying to make a html forum make an account and send an activation email

Question

I own a website and it is completely made out of html and other file extensions.
But I got asked to make a login/signup, I don't know how to make the login form store the data and send a confirmation email to the people before they can access their account?

Answer 1

In order to do this you will need to have some programming running on the server. If you don't want to learn to do that yourself, then there are a number of free systems available that will help you. Wordpress is a good example. You can add plugins to it to get it to work in the way that you need. You can find out more, and download it, at: http://www.wordpress.org/

There is a directory of plugins at: http://wordpress.org/plugins/