When I was building the signup process for Fore Score Golf Stats I was very concerned with making registration as simple as possible for the user. That’s why the site requires a very small amount of information from a new user. An email address is required for verification purposes but, otherwise, the only piece of required information for account registration is a password.

Another site that takes this same simple approach is Twitter. The Twitter signup page is pictured to the right. Twitter’s only real extra step is a CAPTCHA to make sure you’re a real breathing human being and not some lame robot signing up for a spam account.

A simple registration process for new accounts is critical for getting a visitor turned into a user. If your signup is quick and painless you have a much better chance of your new user jumping right into the system and using your site.