How to make registration required?

[dotgarden]

I'm considering making the whole board registration required, like facebook. I want to make registration super easy, of course. I'd like to have a sweet home page that leads every peron to visit to register.

Ideas?

I am allowing/encouraging facebook logins.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Admin CP -> Users -> List User Groups -> [click Unregistered / Unconfirmed]

Set the View permission to Default:



Now guests can't view anything on the forum until they register.

You can link directly to the registration form with this link:

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/index.php?register/