There's a post in nopCommerce forums that asks about how can one have a log in box at the home page. Through a series of replies, I've successfully helped the poster solve her problem with some easy customizations. But it seems like some other forumers are still not clear about how to achieve this, so I am writing this blog post to detail the exact steps in achieving this. After this, you'll be able to place the login box in just about any pages while still keeping the same box in the login page. Here's a screenshot of the box added to the home page.
Ready to go? Fire up your Visual Studio and start following! (Note: I am using nopCommerce 2.80 as an example, but it should be generally applicable to other 2.XX versions of nopCommerce)