1. Your design should make it easy to read text and view video
2. Your membership website design should be as professional as your target audience would expect.
3. A good membership website design is going to organize and navigate information easily.

The real concept behind good design for your membership site is simplicity.

That is not as lame of a comment as it first may seem.  I have built many membership sites and with each new one, I took out more bells and whistles and focused more and more on those membership website design elements I mentioned above.

So when you are thinking about how to design your membership site, you should be thinking about how to cleanly structure and display the kind of informtion you are selling access to and not overdo things.

I highly recommend WordPress Wishlist Member because a WordPress Blog has many free membership website designs and templates that you can use.  Then you can lock down the site with WordPress Wishlist Member and integrate it with Paypal or even with 1ShoppingCart if you want to build an army of affiliates.

Now that I have the right tools and understand to keep things simple when it comes to my membership site design I can launch new membership sites in a matter of less than an hour – other than the content.

To find the kinds of designes available for wordpress, do a search on wordpress themes and you will be able to find thousands of free membership website themes – actually wordpress themes that can be used for membership sites.

This really is a great option and if you are still in the stage of experimenting and trying out different membership site software and platforms, trust me, I just saved you a lot of headaches if you take my advice.

In this post, I am going to assume you have taken our advice from other articles and your have decided to build a membership site with WordPress.

If you did, that is great.  WordPress has thousands of free themes you can use for a free membership site template.

You do need to think about the goals of your membership site before choosing a free membership site template.

For example:

1. Is the membership site template wide enough to fit your images and videos?
2. Does your membership website template  appeal to your target audience?
3. Is your membership site template professional?
4. Does your membership site template require a large amount of customization and can you do the customization yourself?

A free membership site template is great, but if you need to invest in a lot of hours to further customize it you may have either chosen the wrong website template or you have an overly complex website planned and you may want to simplify it.