Until back a few years ago, creating you own social network with a small budget was virtually impossible. This market was available only for large players like Facebook and MySpace, and that because the development of a social networking platform implies a vast amount of knowledge and resources.
All that changed when Boonex released Dolphin. Dolphin was an open source social networking that worked right “out of the box”. You just needed to install and configure it and that was it … you had a social network.
In recent years the mobile market experienced a boom initiated by the release of the iPhone, iOS and the “app-driven mobile experience” and that meant a new world opened for developers and entrepreneurs. The mobile social networking apps market is still its early days and that is why Boonex released Boonex mobile, a mobile social networking software.
BoonEx is the only company in the industry to offer open-source applications for both iPhone and Android that you can rebrand, customize and submit to app stores as your own. BoonEx Mobile Apps are closely integrated with Dolphin and offer a unique platform for expanding your social network reach to the mobile devices of your site’s members.
The iOS and Android apps are nearly identical in terms of looks and functionality. A great thing about both apps is that, being open-source, you can modify them, add functionality, change the design and UI, add extra modules and more.
Some of the features available in both apps are :
On the usability and reliability side, in our experience with the apps these have proven to be very strong and easy to use. The speed was good even on the 3GS model, and both performed great on the latest versions of the iOS and Android operating systems.
Website : Boonex mobile website.
These days Mozilla Firefox is emerging as one of the most popular consumer browsers but it is also become a developer’s best friend. Firefox add-ons and plugins make Firefox a powerful development tool instead of just a consumer web browser. For web designers/developers efficiency is paramount and any time saved by using these add-ons is gold. One of the best things about many of the Firefox add-ons is their ease of use.
Below we’ve rounded up 25 time-saving Mozilla add-ons for web designers and developers.
2652 language combinations offered by ImTranslator gather a large multilingual audience around the world.
Brand Thunder gives businesses and users the ability to completely customize the web browsing experience. It makes it simple and easy for brands to reach their target audiences through a medium that they use for hours each and every day. It also makes browsing and using the Internet simpler and easier for the users who use the custom themes.
These custom themes are available for all of the major platforms, including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Looking into examples of themes on each platform will help you to better understand what these themes can do and what they can accomplish for both the creator and the user.
One of the prime examples of a strong browser theme for Firefox comes in the form of the Miami Heat browser. At first, the browser seems like a simple fan page. It uses the Miami heat logo and the colors of the team for everything from the buttons to the tabs.
When you start to dive further into the theme, you start to see the true power of theme creation. Users will find quick access to important Miami Heat links, including the team page and team twitter page, integrated into the browser. They will also find links that give them simple and easy access to the ticket purchasing website and fan forums. The theme creates an immersive experience that is perfect for Heat fans. This is beneficial for fans in the sense that it makes it easier to interact with their team and their passion, and is beneficial for businesses in the sense that it immerses their fans in the brand.
This article will cover different roles and user management in WordPress and some useful plugins to help maintain and Control Roles which every WordPress designer/maintainer should know.
Though most of the blogs have one author many times blogs might require having multiple contributors. These contributors / guest authors might contribute with different articles to the blog. If a blog has multiple contributors then user management becomes necessary. User management helps to control the privileges each user might have in the blog.
A multi – user blog also becomes very vital if there are different people at different geographical locations contributing to the blog. WordPress as a blogging platform has got good user management capabilities. Also there are plugins which help us to enhance the user management capabilities of our wordpress blogs.
When WordPress is first installed, preferably on a VPS hosting for increased speed, a user with the admin role is created automatically. New users can be added to your WordPress blog in two ways, covered below.
One can log in to the WordPress admin and the administrator can add new users to the WordPress blog.
From you admin sections in the side menu use the Users section .Under the Users section you will see a link as Add new. When that link is clicked the following screen will appear.
Enter the details for the new user like the username, his email and password and click Add User to add a new to your WordPress blog. The role which you assign to the user will depend on what privileges you want to provide to the new user. Below in the article we will see what are the different user roles and there privileges.
Once Add User is clicked a new user will be created.
In WordPress you have and you can activate the option so users can register themselves. This option can be turned on from the General Settings page in your admin section. You can also set the default role of any new user that registers (the admin can later change this role for that particular user).
Once this option is on, there would be a register link as shown below.
Using this link new users can register on your blog.
WordPress is one of the most popular open source blogging engine. BBPress is also an open source forum system by the creators of WordPress.
BBPress is a very elegant and powerful forum system which is written in PHP and mySQL.
BBPress has a very good integration with WordPress which helps us to get the full power and functionality of both these systems.
You can download the latest version of BBPress from http://bbpress.org/download/
Once it is downloaded it unzip it and upload it on your web server. Then point your browser to your BBPress directory, so you will see the following screen.
On that screen press go to step 1
In step 1 you will provide the information about mysql database. Here you will have to enter the Database name , Database user, Database password , Database host , table prefix etc.
Here preferably enter the same database which you used for your WordPress installation.
Once all the details are filled click on ‘Save Data’
Kentico CMS offers a full featured solution on ASP.NET platform that can be used for creating corporate websites, online stores, web communities and intranets.
Some of the key features Kentico includes are : easy to use, advanced security, international support, open API extensibility, SEO friendly, full text search, web analytics, reports, content rating, Taxonomy (Tags and Categories), Media Library, blogs, forums, e-commerce, events calendar, booking system, newsletter, friends section, polls, wiki, geomapping, message boards, private messaging, groups and much more.
The main advantages of using Kentico, besides competitors are :
Kentico is available in a free, unlimited edition, available for download. This version has no limitations, doesn’t expire and can be used for commercial purposes.
Evaluate Kentico
You can evaluate Kentico in 3 ways :
Recently the 5.0 version of Kentico has been released. Details about this version can be found here.
