Creating online forms with profiles

Until this point, most of our attention has been spent understanding CiviCRM's administrative interface and customizing/configuring the system to meet your organization's needs. However, the power of CiviCRM isn't fully realized until you begin to collect and expose data to your website.

It's not uncommon for organizations to have very disjointed systems collecting and maintaining their constituent data. Perhaps you have a central database, such as MS Access, that is used by staff to track your members or donors and is stored on your office network. Several staff people may be maintaining spreadsheets with information relevant to their job functions and which they need access to while traveling (when they are unable to connect to the office network). Perhaps your current website has a database where user login access accounts are stored and a list of members is periodically updated in order to have an online directory.

CiviCRM provides an opportunity to...