Hello friends.

I want to integrate customers for my public view and for that, I have to create members in umbraco so that can login in front panel. But what is difference between users and members.

I searched in forum and I got following answers.

"A User is someone who can log into the Umbraco back office (Umbraco itself) where as Members are people who can log into secure section of the front office (the published site).
To put it in a very high level view:
Users are content editors
Members are the public"

If both are different feature then why I have one parameter for user in Member.MakeNew method?

Member.MakeNew(string Name,MemberType mbt, umbraco.BusinessLogic.User u);

Which method should I use to login member in the website?

And How to know that user is login or not?

Thanks

Imran khan