How the Leicester Wave website works

A lot of people have been wondering how this website works, how to register, login, leave a comment, contribute content etc.

Well, with this website we took a totally different approach by integrating it with Facebook’s API and allowing young people to setup accounts by simply clicking the blue “Connect with Facebook” button on the sidebar which pops up a window where users can enter their Facebook login details and click on the blue connect button.

For first time users, this will setup a profile for them here on Leicester Wave which will download their name, link to their Facebook profile and their Facebook id, that is it.
We don’t download anyone’s login details or Facebook picture, they are all loaded from Facebook. So if someone changed their picture, Leicester Wave would load the new one as it is not saved here and same with the login details, if someone changed their password on Facebook, they will have to login with the new password here on Leicester Wave since it too is not stored here.

From here on, users will be able to login to their accounts at any given time and contribute content to the website, read their messages, comment on blog posts, chat to their Facebook friends, invite their friends, browse around and more.

This website is safe and presents no security risk, big websites such as Digg.com, CNN, Vimeo and others are all using the same technique and allowing their users to register/login with their Facebook accounts. More and more websites will have this feature and Facebook will soon be used as an underlying user-base for a lot of upcoming websites and web applications.