how to secure an admin backend?

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thanks for your response

i downloaded FreakAuth and have managed to get that up & running! i've had to tweak a bit of the config to make it work exactly as i need:

i created a superadmin, for myself, and then created a standard 'user' for the person updating the site's content to use. i then disabled new registrations, removed a few extraneous links from the FreakAuth login screen, and then disabled the FreakAuth admin controllers to stop the user account accidentally getting into it (i can easily enable the controller again via ftp if needs be)

it seems to be working a treat so far, so thanks for all your help