Other Software Package Introduction


Blog - WordPress

WordPress is a semantic personal web publishing platform or Blogging system. It is written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database and developed with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is used to manage frequently-updated Web content, especially Weblogs.


Client Billing System for Web Owner

This package is a php/mysql driven set of scripts that was originally developed to provide webhosting companies a method of performing the following basic tasks, but has been genaralized to support any type of business: [read more...]

  • Provide a means for a site owner to present a defined product or service, collect required client information, and direct them to the appropriate third party billing vendor by means of popular “pay links”.
  • Provide a means for the site owner to send billing invoices to the client.
  • Provide a means for the site owner to generate account activation email to forward to the client to convey pertinent setup information.
  • Provide a means for the site owner to track client information, orders history, billing history (invoices), and support request history (helpdesk).
  • Provide a means for the site owner to contact clients (all or individual) via email.
  • Provide a consistent interface for all components implemented.
  • Provide additional modules to permit the site admin to present additional information to the potential / existing client.
  • Provide secure admin / client login to access information.
  • Provide a means for the client to track information regarding orders history, billing history (invoices), and support request history (helpdesk).
  • Provide theme support for customization through basic function editing and CSS modifications.
  • Provide support for language files to be implemented.

The general label of “billing manager” or “client manager” may not really describe the package as it does perform various other tasks not found in these common packages. It provides additional functions such as articles, contact forms, FAQ, helpdesk, content pages, site search, admin defined side menu columns (customized down to the individual link for access by all, client, or admin), and much more. [hide more...]


Content Management System - TikiWiki

Tiki CMS/Groupware (aka TikiWiki) is a powerful open-source Content Management System (CMS) and Groupware that can be used to create all sorts of Web applications, Sites, Portals, Intranets and Extranets. TikiWiki also works great as a Web-based collaboration tool. TikiWiki is a multi-purpose package with a lot of native options and sections that you can enable/disable as you need them. It is designed to be international, clean and extensible. [read more...]

TikiWiki incorporates all the features present in several excellent wiki systems available today plus a lot of new features and options, allowing your wiki application to be whatever you want it to be--from a simple wiki to a complex site for a whole user community with many intermediate steps. You can use TikiWiki as a forums site, a chatroom, for poll taking, and much more! The possibilities are endless.

To understand TikiWiki, compare it to a high-end single-lens reflex (SLR) camera with lots of expensive lenses. In a well-thought-out SLR camera system, each of the lenses gives you the ability to look at the world in a unique way. You can choose just the right lens for the job. Similarly, Tiki gives you lots of different ways to look at the data with which a group of people are concerned. Use Articles (and make articles your Tiki home page) so that you and your users can post important, fast-breaking news that everyone should read. Use Wiki pages to enable you and your users to upload reams of content without having to learn HTML or hassle with proprietary file formats. Use Forums to launch topic-oriented discussions. Use Blogs to give each user the ability to create chronologically oriented journals. Make vital resources available with File and Image Galleries.

TikiWiki's major features include: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey, quiz, FAQ, chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, and more. [hide more...]


Course Management System - Moodle

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - an Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.


Help Center Live [see features...]

Features:

  • Unlimited Operators
  • Unlimited Departments
  • Unlimited Users

  • Real-Time Chat Sessions
  • Real-Time Visitor Monitor
  • Unlimited Chat Sessions
  • Initiate Chat Sessions
  • Assign Operators to Mutiple Departments
  • View User's Information
  • Operator to Operator Chat
  • Per Department Status Icons
  • Request Polling
  • Collect Visitor's Information
  • Track Visitor's Footprints
  • Track Visitor's Referrer
  • Typing Notification
  • Display Operators Picture in Chat Windows
  • Autosave Chat Transcripts
  • E-mail Transcripts
  • Print Transcripts
  • Hot Pages
  • Transfer Files
  • Transfer Chat Session
  • Canned Messages
  • Canned Commands
  • Push Web Pages
  • Leave a message
  • Toggle sounds on/off
  • Toggle status online/offline
  • Implementation to your Website [hide features...]

Portal Site - Mambo

Mambo Open Source is one of the finest open source Web Content Management Systems
available today. Mambo Open Source makes communicating and publishing via the Web
easy. Have you wanted to design and publish your own site, with the ease of just point
and click, but never understood how to achieve this? Well Mambo Open Source is just
the ticket for you!
[read more...]

With Mambo Open Source, there is no need for HTML, XML or DHTML skills, just
enter your content, add a picture, and then, through the easy to use easy-to-use advanced
Administrator web-interface, ...click Publish!

Simple... Quick... And easy!

What is Mambo Open Source Content Management System?

Mambo Open Source Content Management System is the friendliest and most superior
open source CMS software available. Anyone can easily manage his or her own web site.
It is simple enough for small websites, yet powerful enough for large-scale commercial
web sites. These are some of the attractions to using Mambo Open Source, to manage
content on personal and commercial web sites.

Mambo Open Source CMS:

  • is easy to set up and use
  • has a simple and unique Administration interface to manage web site content
  • is easy, and flexible enough to create custom designs, using the template system
  • makes it easy to add content and images
  • is designed with simplicity and flexibility for everyone. From the non-tech
    Webmaster, to an advanced programmer, it is designed to make it simple to add
    custom applications.

What can I use Mambo Open Source for?
Mambo Open Source CMS, can be used for many different types of Web sites, such as:

  • Portals
  • Commercial web sites
  • Intranet web sites
  • Non-Profit web sites
  • Personal web sites
  • Integrated flash sites

The key feature is the ability to manage your content directly on the web, by any
authorized Administrator or user of the site. The person(s) that manage(s) the content
does not need to know any programming language such as HTML to update the site
because an online editor (WYSIWYG editor) is included for formatting the text and
inserting images. Also, there is no need to upload your documents with hard-tounderstand
FTP programs. Just click on the save and publish buttons and your page is
online for your visitors to see!

Some of the different applications that MOS (Mambo Open Source) can be used for are:

  • updating home and news pages, with news or articles and images
  • easily creating your own content menus like Products > Hardware > DVD Recorders, Products > Hardware > CD Recorders
  • uploading MS Word, MS Excel and Acrobat PDF documents for viewing.
  • managing Banners (advertisement etc.)
  • creating Polls
  • managing Web links
  • managing FAQ (frequently asked questions)
  • managing News flashes
  • managing multi media flash, .jpg, gif, bmp and .png images,
  • managing News feeds, from different news source web sites
  • managing contact and email form pages
  • managing Users, with special access levels
  • managing Archive pages
  • managing 3rd party developer’s Components, Modules and Templates. For example: E-commerce, forums, image galleries, calendar & agenda components, Help Desk etc…
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Portal Site - phpNuke

PHP-Nuke is a News Automated System designed to be used in Intranets and Internet. [read more...]

The Administrator has total control of his web site and registered users. There is a powerful assembly of tools are available to maintain or update an active and interactive web site using databases.

Key Features:

  • Customizable and flexible
  • Easy and pleasant to use
  • Designed for webmasters who pass hours administrating his web site
  • Offers a very high number of features
  • Multi-languages supported
  • Fully secure and scalable [hide more...]

Project Manager - DotProject

DotProject is an Open Source Project Management tool. [read more...]

It is a volunteer supported Project Management application. There is no "company" behind this project, it is managed, maintained, developed and supported by a volunteer group and by the users themselves.


Web-Board Software Scripts

Web-Board is an Internet based bulletin or forum system. [read more...]

An Internet forum system is a web application which provides for discussion, often in conjunction with online communities. Older forums date back to around 1996 as the text based system, then following the newsgroups and bulletin board systems which were widespread in the 1980s and 1990s. Popular discussion topics include technology, computer games, and politics, but forums are available for any number of different topics.

It can be used for many different purpose. OpenChapter demonstrates 5 different ways: Forum, Guestbook, Image Gallary, Questions and Answers (Q&A), and Vote. [hide more...]