I am looking for professional advice here.

I am currently on a Network Marketing team that is developing a website. This website will be used as a training community for both those interested in the business opportunity or the products, or have already joined the team.

I am looking for platform help. Here are some specific ideas that our team has for our web presence. We are working on the layout and such but those details are not quite as important as the back end programming we are looking for.

When someone becomes a member of the team, we want to be able to supply this person with a face page.

We are not yet sure if we want the user to be able to add HTML code to his profile/face page or if they will only be able to supply information and have all the pages appear the same. I realize that differences here are drastic to the overall programming of the site, so I wanted to share both with all of you with hopes that I may be guided to both options so that we can decide later.

We are not going to charge money for this specific face page. Once the member joins, it will be a sort of online business card that he can get his potential prospects to take a look at whenever they want to. On this page, the prospect should be able to fill out a form requesting that they would like to join the members downline in business venture. We are also hoping for a button that will enable anyone to contact this member from the face page. We would like the member to be able to sign in, and perhaps supply other tools that are available on the website as links from his own face page.

I realize that this sort of site will have to be programmed and the web master will have to be tutored on the back end administration of the site. This is my first attempt for guidance. I am willing to listen to and respond to any suggestions for this sort of online presence. I know that I have come to the right place.

Ideally, the best option for us would be to purchase an already designed script that has these capabilities. There are other bells and whistles that we would consider as well.

Thanks for your time and I look forward to the discussions this will bring about.

Guy Maltais

I would use a standard page and maybe allow members to upload something like a logo to differentiate their page. Sooner or later, you'll want to add a new field or a differnet type of search query. A standard tmplate will make updating for enhanced data management much easier.

Additionally, if you're site incorporates some sort of member rating/ranking feature, You probably want to drive newly interested participants to the pages of members that perform the best rather than have them swayed by members who hired the best page designer.