WEB SOLUTIONS

E-Learning Website

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

X2 E-LEARNING is designed to provide an easy and powerful e-learning experience for any type of organisations

Promotes a social constructionist pedagogy (collaboration, activities, critical reflection, etc) and e-learning solution is suitable for 100% online classes as well as supplementing face-to-face learning.

Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, low-tech browser interface
Course listing shows descriptions for every course on the server, including accessibility to guests.
Courses can be categorised and searched - one site can support thousands of courses
Emphasis on strong security throughout. Forms are all checked, data validated, cookies encrypted etc
Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor
Site is managed by an administrator user
Site is defined during setup. Defaults can be edited during setup or globally accepted
Site can be modified by a robust Site administration block.
Please note: In the description below, we use the term of teachers and students. These terms are generic and could be replaced by whatever the e-learning centre will be targeted to. eg. HR manager for teacher or company employee for student

USER MANAGEMENT

Overview

Goals are to reduce admin involvement to a minimum, while retaining high security
Supports a range of authentication mechanisms through plug-in authentication modules, allowing easy integration with existing systems.
Standard email method: students can create their own login accounts. Email addresses are verified by confirmation.
LDAP method: account logins can be checked against an LDAP server. Admin can specify which fields to use.
IMAP, POP3, NNTP: account logins are checked against a mail or news server. SSL, certificates and TLS are supported.
Students are encouraged to build an online profile including photos, description. Email addresses can be protected from display if required.
Every user can specify their own timezone, and every date in X2 Academy is translated to that timezone (e.g. posting dates, assignment due dates etc)
Every user can choose the language used for the X2 E-LEARNING interface (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese etc),

Enrolment

Teachers can add an "enrolment key" to their courses to keep out non-students. They can give out this key face-to-face or via personal email etc
Teachers can enrol students manually if desired
Teachers can unenrol students manually if desired, otherwise they are automatically unenrolled after a certain period of inactivity (set by the admin)
External database: any database containing at least two fields can be used as an external authentication source.
Each person requires only one account for the whole server - each account can have different access
Meta courses can group together related courses so participants can interact with each other

Roles

Roles for specific participants can be defined for each course
An admin account controls the creation of courses and creates teachers by assigning users to courses
Course creators can create courses, teach in them, and assign others to teacher roles.
Teachers are a role in a specific course.
Non-editing teacher roles are available for adjuncts, and part-time tutors.

COURSE MANAGEMENT

Overview

A full teacher has full control over all settings for a course, including restricting other teachers
Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focussed social format
Course Themes. A course can have its own theme of colors and layout.
Flexible array of course activities - Forums, Quizzes, Glossaries, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops
Groups - teacher(s) and students can be placed in one or more groups
Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the course home page - helps give sense of community
Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor
All grades for Forums, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file)
Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details about each module (last access, number of times read) as well as a detailed "story" of each students involvement including postings etc on one page.
Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed in HTML or plain text.
Custom scales - teachers can define their own scales to be used for grading forums and assignments
Courses can be packaged as a single zip file using the Backup function. These can be restored on any X2 Academy server.

Assignment Module

Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.
Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server - they are date-stamped.
Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown clearly to the teacher
For each particular assignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade and comment) on one page in one form.
Teacher feedback is appended to the assignment page for each student, and notification is mailed out.
The teacher can choose to allow resubmission of assignments after grading (for regrading)
Allowing resubmissions can allow the teacher to progress monitor student projects/assignments as they evolve.
Advanced assignments can allow multiple files to be uploaded. This could keep together preplanning maps, outlines, research papers and presentations. (Not for beginners)

Chat Module

Allows smooth, synchronous text interaction
Includes profile pictures in the chat window
Supports URLs, smilies, embedded HTML, images etc
All sessions are logged for later viewing, and these can also be made available to students

Choice Module

Like a poll. Can either be used to vote on something, or to get feedback from every student (eg research consent)
Teacher sees intuitive table view of who chose what
Students can optionally be allowed to see an up-to-date graph of results

Forum Module

Different types of forums are available, such as teacher-only, course news, open-to-all, and one-thread-per-user.
All postings have the authors photo attached.
Discussions can be viewed nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first.
Individual forums can be subscribed to by each person so that copies are forwarded via email, or the teacher can force subscription for all
The teacher can choose not to allow replies (eg for an announcements-only forum)
Discussion threads can be easily moved between forums by the teacher
Attached images are shown inline
If forum ratings are being used, these can be restricted to a range of dates

Glossary Module

This is one of the modules that best illustrates the way that X2 E-LEARNING can fundamentally improve upon the experience of a traditional classroom
When students contribute to a course in a public place like the glossary, their ideas are given weight and attention and often result in a greater pride or ownership of the assignment
Allows participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary
Student entries can be previewed by instructors before publishing
Entries can be searched or browsed using alphabet, category, date, and author
A glossary of terms can be easily referenced by students
Almost any module of X2 E-LEARNING can be set to hyperlink - automatically - to any word or phrase that is stored in or added to the glossary
Glossary items can be grouped in categories
Participants can comment on glossary entries
Entries can be rated using teacher-defined scales
Glossaries can be easily exported and imported via xml
Glossaries can be fully searched
Glossaries can be viewed with different display formats

Lesson Module

A lesson is a series of pages which can be presented in a linear fashion, like a slide show, or in a non-linear, branching manner, or in a combination of the two.
Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex, logical or random
Pages can allow students choices through answers to teacher directed questions or descriptions
Each choice can be associated with jumps that link to other tables
Offers different scoring and grading potentials
Interfaces with Grade and Glossary modules
Lessons can build upon each other through conditional dependencies upon one another
Question pages include Multiple choice, Multi-answer, T/F, numeric, short answer and essay.
Pages can be imported either as questions in a variety of formats or from PowerPoints
Student attempts, time limits, minimum score and retakes can be set.
Page content is HTML compatible, with a full set of edit tools for the teacher
Students may see progress bars, running score, reinforcement to student questions
Password, start and end times, and other restrictions can be placed on students.

Quiz Module

Teachers can define a database of questions for re-use in different quizzes
Questions can be stored in categories for easy access, and these categories can be "published" to make them accessible from any course on the site.
Quizzes are automatically graded, and can be re-graded if questions are modified
Quizzes can have a limited time window outside of which they are not available
At the teacher's option, quizzes can be attempted multiple times, and can show feedback and/or correct answers
Quiz questions and quiz answers can be shuffled (randomised) to reduce cheating
Questions allow HTML and images
Questions can be imported from external text files
Quizzes can be attempted multiple times, if desired
Attempts can be cumulative, if desired, and finished over several sessions
Multiple-choice questions supporting single or multiple answers
Short Answer questions (words or phrases)
True-False questions
Matching questions
Random questions
Numerical questions (with allowable ranges)
Embedded-answer questions (cloze style) with answers within passages of text
Embedded descriptive text and graphics

Resource Module

Supports display of any electronic content, Word, Powerpoint, Flash, Video, Sounds etc. that are stored locally, or remotely
Files can be uploaded and managed (zipped, unzipped, renamed, moved, etc..) on the server
Folders can be created and managed on the server and linked to
Internal web pages (html formatted) can be created with WYSIWYG editor and linked to
Internal text pages (no formatting) can be created and linked to
External content on the web can be linked to or seamlessly included within the course interface.
External web applications can be linked to with data passed to them
Linked MP3 audio files will display with elegant flash player

Survey Module

Built-in surveys (COLLES, ATTLS) have been proven as instruments for analysing online classes
Online survey reports always available, including many graphs. Data is downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet or CSV text file.
Survey interface prevents partly-finished surveys.
Feedback is provided to the student of their results compared to the class averages

Wiki Module

Wiki is a web page that anyone can add to or edit
It enables documents to be authored collectively and supports collaborative learning
Old versions are not deleted and may be restored if required

Workshop Module

Allows peer assessement of documents, and the teacher can manage and grade the assessment.
Supports a wide range of possible grading scales
Teacher can provide sample documents for students to practice grading
Very flexible with many options.

Project Management

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Plan your projects and track their progress… a project management system lets you assign tasks to people and define what is urgent.

With our state of the art project management system you will see what your team is doing and what they need to do, discuss different what you are working on while tracking every progress and piece of information between your team and your clients.

Collaborate

Communicate with your team, clients, suppliers and everyone else you are working with in a friendly and an easy to use environment.Discuss and comment, receive email notifications, stay in touch. Everything is saved and available for future reference.

Projects

Unlimited Projects
No artificial limitations - manage an unlimited number of projects at any time.
Copy Projects and Save Time Projects can be copied so you can have "project templates" for common things you work on. This can save you a lot of time that you would waste if you had to define all milestones and tasks from scratch.
See Project Progress
Project progress shows you have many tasks are completed and how many are still left to go with a nice little graphic indicator.
Organize Projects Into Groups Projects can be sorted into project groups. Your clients will see only the groups where they have projects in; other groups will be invisible to them.
Set a Client for a Project. Project can optionally be associated with a client company. It will inherit client's logo if no specific project icon is set.
Quickly Move Between Projects. Use Jump to Project widget to quickly jump to any project at any time. You can pin projects to the top of the list for easier access.

Files

Upload Files, File Revisions and Collaborate
Use Files section to upload files, discuss them, upload and compare versions. You can upload and track versions of any file.
See Attachments from Other Project Sections
Files attached in other project sections are also listed in Files section. They are marked with a little paperclip icon so you can easily spot them.
Preview Images. System generates thumbnails and preview images for JPG, GIF and PNG files.
Categories and Milestones. Files can be sorted in categories and associated with milestones. Both relations are optional.

Tickets

Bigger Tasks, Issues, Subprojects and More
Tickets are essentially tasks, but their rich features let you use them for many different things, depending on your needs. They are great for tasks that take longer time to get completed, that evolve through time, or in situations when you need the ability to discuss a task with your team or a client.

Categories and Milestones

Tickets can be sorted in categories and associated with milestones. Both relations are optional.
When ticket is completed, it's moved to Archive for future reference.
Break Ticket Into Smaller Tasks
Use subtasks to break a ticket into smaller steps and to execute them one by one. Each subtask can have due date, priority and a list of assignees.

History

Changes made to a ticket are tracked so you can always know what, when and who made a change.

Comments

Tickets support an unlimited number of comments. Use them to discuss a ticket with your colleagues and clients.
Unlimited Number of Attachments
People can attach any number of files to a ticket. System will recognize images and create thumbnails. For other types it will use appropriate filetype icons.

Email Notifications

Users subscribed to a ticket will receive email notification when it is commented, completed or reopened.
Time Tracking
Track Time
Each project has its own time page where time can be directly tracked on a project. Optionally, the time record can be attached to a ticket or a subtask.

Billable? Billed?

Each time record can be marked as billable or not billable. Additionally, billable hours can be marked as billed. When billed, time record will be crossed over in the list and you can easily filter it out in reports.

Filter and Export Data

Filter time records by date, user and billable / billed status. The filter which you create is reusable and you can run it globally or per project. Filter results can be exported to CSV format and used in your favorite spreadsheet application (like Excel, Numbers etc), or sent to your accountant for further processing.

Permissions

System Roles
System roles let you specify which areas and functions of system users can have access to. Some of the role permissions are access to administration, ability to manage or create project, manage company user accounts and more.

Project Roles

Project roles are reusable sets of project permissions. Users can have different roles on different projects. If none of already defined project roles work for a specific user on a specific project, then you can use a custom set of permissions instead of defining a new role.

Full Control

Granular permissions let you precisely set up which sections of a project user have access to and what he or she can do there. Clients see only people they previously worked with and are not aware of anything outside of the projects they are working on.

Printing and Exporting

Print Stylesheets
All pages are optimized to print well. Print out assignments or specific task details and bring them to the team meeting with no worries - they look beautiful on paper as well.
Export Project
Project Exporter lets you export project data as static website that can be uploaded to the server, archived for future reference or for any other purpose that may be suitable for you

Modules

100% Modular
Using modules you can extend or alter system behaviour. Most of the features are already implemented as modules
Modules is a Mini Application
What makes modules so powerful is the fact that small, fully featured MVC applications operate in the environment and can interact between each other
Write, Share or Sell Modules
You are free to create modules and sell them or offer them for free to the rest of X2 Project community. We encourage our community to share their modules and you can see all of currently available modules at Download section of this website.

X2 Project API

Perfect for Integration API lets you easily integrate X2 Project with other applications. Use it not just to give access to your data to other application, but also to let them work with it, create new records and more.

Easy to Use

X2 Project API provides data in XML or JSON format over good old HTTP. All you need to do is to ping a specific URL, say which format you prefer and collect the output.
Have it Under Control.
API can be set as read and write, read only (default setting) or completely disabled. It's your call how much control you want to give to other applications

Security

Full Control
X2 Project is not a hosted service so you can run it locally, in your network, behind company firewall. System can be installed on server with SSL support so all interaction between you and the software is encrypted.

Encrypted User Passwords

User passwords are salted and encrypted with SHA1 encryption algorithm.
CAPTCHA Protection
Public forms that submit data into the system use CAPTCHA protection to prevent SPAM bots to post tickets in your system.
Interface for Mobile Devices
While you're on the Go
Mobile interface offers low bandwidth interface optimized for smaller screen resolutions. This way you can check the progress of your projects while you are out of the office or on a trip.

Works with Phones

Mobile interface works with modern phones without any additional software required. All you need is a phone with a browser that supports XHTML. We recommend iPhone, BlackBerry, Symbian S60 or any phone that can run mobile Opera.

Touch X2 Project!

X2 Project mobile interface will detect if you are using iPhone or iPod Touch and will make proper adjustments to be more usable with Touch interfaces.

Milestones

Mark Key Points in a Project
Have a bird-eye view over things that need to be done, when and who is responsible. Milestone can be a single day event or a time period determined by start and due date.
“Zoom In” When you need more details, click on a milestone's name to "zoom in" to see all related discussions, files and tasks.
iCalendar Support
Subscribe to iCalendar feed to have milestones and tasks from X2 Project synchronized with your favorite calendar application (iCal, Outlook etc).

Email Notifications

Notifications are sent to everyone subscribed to a milestone when it is completed or reopened.

Discussions

Just Like Online Forum
Discussions let you create a number of topics and discuss them with your team and clients. It's like online forums - discussions with most recent comments are listed on top and system will tell you when there are new messages in a topic.

Categories and Milestones

Discussions can be sorted in categories and associated with milestones. Both relations are optional.
Attach Files to Discussion Messages
Each discussion message supports an unlimited number of files attached. System will recognize images and create thumbnails. For other types it will use appropriate filetype icons.

Checklists

Lists of Tasks
Checklist is a list of tasks that need to be done in order to get a checklist completed. When all tasks in the checklist are completed, the checklist is completed automatically.
Priority, Due Date and Multiple Assignees
Each task in a list can have priority, due date and multiple assignees.
Email Notifications
People subscribed to a checklist will receive email notification when checklist is completed or reopened.

Pages

Collaborative Writing
Pages are great for content production. They can be organized in chapters and subchapters. Pages support version tracking so you can see how the document evolves over time.
Comments
Pages support an unlimited number of comments. Use them to discuss a page with your colleagues and clients.
Subtasks
Unlimited number of subtasks can be attached to a page. This is great for complex documents with many authors involved or for jotting down ideas you want to explore.
Calendar
Show Tasks in Calendar View
Calendar shows milestones and tasks in month view. User can "zoom in" and see more information about tasks by clicking on a particular day. Tasks can be completed directly from calendar.
Multiple Calendar
Three calendar filters are available - global calendar, project calendar and user calendar.
iCalendar Support
Subscribe to iCalendar feed to have milestones and tasks from X2 Project synchronized with your favorite calendar application (iCal, Outlook etc).
Assignments
Multiple Assignees
Tasks can have multiple assignees. One user is always set as responsible in front of the group of assignees.
Assignment Filters
Filter assignments by date, priority, assignees and project. Each filter can be re-used and shared with other users. Users can also define private filters available only to them.

Email Features

Outgoing Email
X2 Project can use PHPs mail() function or your SMTP server to send out emails. SSL and TLS encryption are supported for SMTP connections.
Mass Mailer
Use Mass Mailer to send messages to users from your X2 Project system. This tool can send messages to all users or only to a group of selected people.
Email Templates
All emails sent by the system are based on a set of customizable templates. Use them include information specific to your business, change the tone or make them more personalized.
Themes
Change Look and Feel
Use themes to change the look and feel of the application. The system offers a great foundation with layout already in place; all you need to do is to set fonts, colors and add your own graphics.
Per User Theme
Each user can select the theme he or she prefers. Default theme is set in Administration

Reminders

Remind People Regarding an Issue in 3 Clicks
Remind someone about a ticket, a discussion or a page in 3 clicks. You can notify assignees, subscribers, people who commented or a specific person.
Things that Require your Attention
Reminders are sent as email notification. They are also listed at the dashboard at Things that Require your Attention section.

Localization

Translate the Interface
X2 Project gives you tools to translate the entire interface to any language you need. It is all done from Administration Panel and no programming skills are required.
Per User Language Settings
Every user can select preferred language from their Profile page.
Translate Email Templates
All emails sent out by X2 Project can be translated into any language. Users will receive email notifications in language they selected on their profile page.
Date and Time
Date and time are properly formatted and use localized names for weekdays and months. Users can change preferred date and time format on their profile pages.

Social Networking

Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

PANDA INTERACTIVE GROUP :Social is feature-rich and is uniquely designed to support almost any social networking concept you might have. This means that you won't end up with cookie-cutter results.

Instead of throwing in as many end-user features as we could, we focused on building a stable, customizable platform upon which you can implement your own unique features and ideas. Of course, we've included what end-users have come to expect: Blogs, albums, groups, messages, and everything else you see listed below.

USER PROFILE MANAGEMENT

• Multi-part profiles
The user profile page is perhaps the most important part of your social network. Along with the user's profile data, all of the user's photos, blog entries, comments, groups, friends, statistics, and other items can be displayed here. This page is often used as a point of contact between users, so various options are available to viewers (such as "Send Message", "Add Friend", "Block User", and so forth). As the admin, you decide what goes on your users' profiles.

• Customizable profile fields
The information that your users will provide about themselves will define your social network. Thusly, you should create profile fields that make users provide information that is relavant to your social network's unique theme. For example, if you are building a social network for businesspeople, you might create fields like "Current Employer", "Position", "References", etc. Similarly, if you are creating a dating network, you might create fields like "Height", "Weight", "Eye Color", and so forth. Profile fields can be one of several types: Text fields, pull-down boxes, multi-line text areas, radio buttons, dates, etc.

• Dependent profile fields
If you create a pull-down box or radio button profile field, you can give it one or more dependent profile fields. For example, if your pull-down box profile field is named "Marital Status", it might have possible values such as "Single" and "Married". By creating a dependent field named "To" for the "Married" value, users that select "Married" can specify who they are married to.

• Regex field validation
Each profile field that you create can be given its own regular expression. If the data provided by the user does not match this expression, you can choose to display an error message of your choice. This ensures that users are inputting their profile data in the exact format you want.

• Keyword lnks
If enabled, some profile fields will be "linked, separated by commas." This means that whatever data the user provides in these fields will be separated by commas and linked to browse pages. For example, if you create a field called "My Favorite Music" and a user enters "classical, jazz, soul", each of those words will be linked on the user's profile page. Then, when a viewer clicks "jazz", they are taken to a page that lists all other users that have listed "jazz" in their "My Favorite Music" field.

• Birthday fields
Date fields on your users' profiles can be set to "birthday mode", which allows you to calculate the user's age. With some minor modifications, you could use this to notify users of upcoming birthdays.

• Personal photos (avatars)
If allowed, users can easily upload a photo of themselves, which is automatically sized down and used as their personal photo (also known as an avatar). This is displayed on their profile, in search results, when they send a message, and on many other areas of your social network.

• Profile privacy
If allowed, users can select from several privacy levels when managing their profile. This limits who can view and write comments on their profile. You, the admin, can decide what privacy options are available to your users.

• Comments
If allowed, users can post comments on each other's profiles. This is an excellent way to encourage user interaction. If an inappropriate or unwanted content is posted, the receiving user can delete it from his or her profile. Users also have the ability to choose who can post comments on their profile (if allowed by you, the admin).

• Custom CSS styles
If allowed, users can insert their own custom CSS styles to give their profiles a more personalized appearance.

NETWORK STRUCTURE AND FLEXIBILITY

• Subnetworks
Your social network has the ability to organize users into "subnetworks" based on profile information they have in common with each other. You can use this to limit access and privacy between subnetworks, display subnetwork-specific content in your templates, or to simply organize your users. For example, you might want your social network to be comprised of two subnetworks: "Males" and "Females". Or, perhaps you might want to split these up into "Males In California", "Males Outside California", "Females In California", "Females Outside California". This is particularly useful because you can show different content (or advertisements) to users based on what subnetwork they are in. This allows you to serve them information or ads that are specifically relevant to their interests or personal characteristics.

• Several friendship structures
You can select from four distinct friendship structures: 1) Nobody can invite anyone to become friends, 2) Anybody can invite anyone to become friends, 3) Only people within the same subnetwork can become friends, and 4) Users can only invite their friends' friends (second-level friends) to become their friends. With some minor customization, other structures can be implemented quite easily.

• One-way or two-way friendships
As the admin, you can decide if users have one-way or two-way friendships. Example: User A adds User B to his friend list. With a one-way friendship framework, User B is User A's friend, but User A is not User B's friend. With a two-way friendship framework, User B is User A's friend and User A is User B's friend.

• Verified or unverified friendships
As the admin, you can choose whether or not users will have to confirm friendship requests. Example: User A requests to become friends with User B. With a verified friendships framework, the two users will not become friends until User B confirms the friendship. With an unverified friendship framework, the two users will become friends immediately.

• Friendship types (titles)
As the admin, you can create a list of friendship types for users to pick when describing their relationships with their friends. Example: Your friendship type list may be something like "Co-worker", "Significant Other", "Acquaintance", "Close Friend", "Family", and so forth. Users can pick from these when they add new friends or edit the details of their relationships with their friends. If you wish, you can also allow users to enter in their own friendship type instead of picking from your list.

• Friendship explanations
As the admin, you can allow users to type in a detailed explaination of their relationships with each of their friends.

• Public/private sections
As the admin, you can easily make portions of the social network available to the public or registered users only.

• Custom privacy levels
As the admin, you can decide what privacy levels your users can choose from when they decide who can view (or post comments on) their profiles, blogs, groups, albums, and so forth.

• Signup by admin invitation
As the admin, you can choose to allow users to signup only if you have invited them. This is an effective way to build a small, exclusive social network.

• Signup by user invitation
As the admin, you can choose to allow users to signup only if they have been invited by an existing user or an admin. You can even give each user a limited number of invitations to send out. By limiting signups in this way, invitations can become "valuable," which is a known method of achieving viral growth.

• Customizable signup process
As the admin, you can decide what will take place during the new user signup process. You decide what fields they must fill out (and which are required), whether they are asked to upload a photo, whether they are prompted to invite other people, and so forth.

• Email messages
Your social network sends emails to your users when they do different things, like signup, receive friend requests, request their lost password, etc. These email messages are all customizable - you can easily replace the default messages with your own.

LOOK AND FEEL

• Template engine
Other social networking apps give you little in the way of customizing the look and feel of your social network. Conversely, every aspect of X2:Social 's visual appearance is customizble. X2:Social utilizes the popular Smarty template engine. Every single page of your social network has an HTML template that we can modify to suit your target market. Using special tags, you can display virtually any information from your database on any part of your social network.

• Global CSS styles
A single CSS stylesheet is used to set the colors, fonts, and other styles of your entire social network. This makes global changes to the look and feel of your social network easy!

• No copyright notice
There are no copyright or "powered by" notices placed on your social network. Our copyright notices are hidden in the PHP source code, so they are never viewable to your users. Other social networking apps charge you a fee to remove their "powered by" notice - we would never punish you this way! We want your social network to reflect your idea, not our product.

• Portal page example included
If you're not integrating X2:Social into your existing website, you can use the included portal page as the homepage of your social network. Like every other part of your social network, this page can be easily customized to fit your design goals.

• Multi-language support
All of the text on your social network is stored in a single language file, which makes translation simple.

• Search engine friendly URLs
As the admin, you can switch between standard (dynamic) or search engine friendly (static) URLs. This applies to the URLs of your users' profile pages, albums, blogs, groups, etc.

ANTI-SPAM FEATURES

• Email address verification
As the admin, you can choose to force users to verify their email address (by clicking a link that arrives in an email after they signup) before they can login to their account. This is an effective way of reducing fake (automated) account signups and spam on your social network.

• Random password generation
As the admin, you can choose to have a random password emailed to each user that signs up, enhancing the security of their account, verifying their email address, and increasing the probability that they are human and not an automated program.

• Automatic "CAPTCHA" images
When your users signup, you can force them to visually read the alphanumeric code from an automatically generated image and enter it into a field. This feature reduces spam and automated signups. It can be used on several areas of your social network, including signup and comments.

• Inappropriate content reports
Users can submit an inappropriate content report if they consider an image (or any other content) to be offensive or spam-related. These reports can be managed by you (or other admins if you've created multiple admin accounts) via the control panel.

• Simple user management
Your admin panel includes an easy-to-use interface for managing (and deleting) your users, albums, blog entries, groups, etc., allowing you to easily delete unwanted content.

• User banning
As the admin, you can specify usernames, email address, or IP addresses that are not allowed. This will help you block out abusive users and spammers.

• Word censors
As the admin, you can specify words that are not allowed on profiles, blogs, and albums. If a user posts any of your censored words, they are automatically replaced with asterisks (*).

• Blocklist
If allowed, users can choose to block other users. This prevents the blocked user from contacting the first user or viewing his content, and is an effective way to deter abusive behavior.

PHOTO ALBUMS

• All file types accepted
As the admin, you can choose to allow users to upload files of any type (such as mp3, zip, etc.). This can be limited by the filename extension as well as the actual MIME type. This effectively allows you to use the album feature as a file sharing feature if you wish.

• Automatic thumbnails
Thumbnails for common image file types are generated on the fly and stored on the server. Custom icons for non-image files can be specified.

• Multiple albums per user
You, the admin, can specify how many albums each user is allowed to have.

• Storage space limit per user
You, the admin, can specify how much disk space to give each user.

• File size and dimensions limit
You, the admin, can specify the maximum file size and dimensions (for images) allowed.

• Automatic image resizing
If an uploaded image's dimensions are larger than the limit you have set, the image will be automatically sized down (for most image file types). Images keep their aspect ratio after resizing.

• Custom CSS styles
If allowed, users can insert their own custom CSS styles to give their albums a more personalized look.

• Browse friends' albums
Users can browse their friends' recently updated albums. This encourages content sharing and user interactivity.

• Comments
If allowed, users can post comments on each other's photos and files. Comments can be moderated by the person that received the comment. Users can receive notifications by email when they receive new comments.

• Multiple simultaneous uploads
Users can upload several files from their desktop at once.

• Album privacy
If allowed, users can select from several privacy levels when managing their albums. This limits who can view their albums. You, the admin, can decide what privacy options are available to your users.

BLOGS

• WYSIWYG entry composer
Users compose their blog entries with ease using an embedded, rich text MS-Word styled editor. With one click, users can view the HTML source of their entry and make changes if necessary.

• Seamless image upload
Users can upload images and insert them directly into their entries, all through the embedded WYSIWYG entry composer.

• Custom CSS styles
If allowed, users can insert their own custom CSS styles to give their blogs a more personalized appearance.

• Blog entry categories
As the admin, you can create an unlimited number of blog entry categories. When writing their blog entries, your users can specify what category they belong to. This is a useful feature, particularly if you want to create a page that displays all of the blog entries on your social network that are about a common topic.

• Blog entry privacy
If allowed, users can select from several levels of privacy when deciding who can view and comment on their blog entries. As the admin, you can specify which of these privacy levels are available to your users.

• Comments
If allowed, users can post comments on each other's blog entries. This is an excellent way to encourage user interaction. If an inappropriate or unwanted content is posted, the receiving user can delete it from his or her blog entry. Users also have the ability to choose who can post comments on their blog entries (if allowed by you, the admin). Each entry can be given a different privacy level if desired.

GROUPS

• Customizable group fields
When users create a group, they are asked to provide some information about it. This information is entered into fields that you, the admin, can create in the control panel. These fields can be any of several types, including text fields, pull-down boxes, multi-line text areas, radio buttons, dates, and so forth. These fields can be made required, and special error messages can be specified.

• Group categories
You may want to allow your users to categorize their groups by subject, location, etc. Categorized groups make it easier for users to find and join groups that interest them. As the admin, you can create an unlimited number of group categories and subcategories.

• Browse groups
Users can browse groups by category or search for groups by keyword. This makes it easy for them to find and join groups that interest them.

• Group photo album
If allowed, each group is given its own photo album. Like normal albums, limits can be placed on the allowed file types and image dimensions. If allowed by the group leader, comments can be posted on these photos.

• Membership rankings
Groups can contain three levels of membership: Leaders, officers, and members. When someone creates a group, they are automatically made the leader of that group. Leadership can be transferred to another user if desired. Leaders can also appoint officers, who have limited administration abilities such as approving/rejecting new members, changing the group settings, and so forth. Members can view the group's content, but cannot alter its settings.

• Membership approval/rejection
Groups can optionally be set to "allow new members by approval only." This means that when a prospective new member requests to join the group, they must first be approved by the group leader or officers.

• Membership invitations
Group leaders and officers can send invitations to other users to become members of their group. If they so choose, members are notified by email when they receive an invitation.

• Custom CSS styles
If allowed, leaders or officers can insert their own custom CSS styles to give their groups a more personalized appearance.

• Comments
If allowed, group memebers can post comments on their group. This is an effective way to allow group members to communicate in an open way.

• Group Discussion Board
Each group includes a built-in discussion board, allowing group members to post threaded discussion topics.

CLASSIFIEDS

• Privacy Settings
As the admin, you can decide whether or not to allow public viewers (visitors that are not logged in) to view the classified listings on your social network.

• Customizable Categories and Fields
As the admin, you can categorize the classified listings for your users. For example, you can create categories such as "For Sale" and "Wanted" each with subcategories such as "Furniture" and "Electronics."

• New Classifieds Email Notification
As the admin, you can customize the email that is sent to the user when a new comment is posted on one of their classified listings.

• Classifieds Listings
As the admin, you can see all the classified listings posted by your users. You can monitor and search these classifieds to delete offensive material if necessary. As the user, you can view your own listings, upload photos, as well as browse the marketplace.

• Listing Settings
The user can choose to be notified by email when someone posts a comment on any of their listings.

• Comments
The user can comment on other classified listings or send a private message to the seller.

• Classified Listing Photos
Users can upload a photos and post them alongside their classified listings.

EVENTS

• Event Calendar
Users can manage events on their own full-size event calendar. A mini-calendar is also shown on their profiles, allowing them to share their events with others.

• Invitations and RSVPs
Users can create events and invite others to join. When another user receives an invitation, they can RSVP as "attending", "maybe attending" or "not attending".

• Event Photos
Users can upload photos to the events they have attended.

• Privacy Settings
As the admin, you can decide whether or not to allow public viewers (visitors that are not logged in) to view event listings on your social network. When creating a new event, the user can decide who views the event, who can join, and if comments are allowed.

• Customizable Event Categories
As the admin, you can allow your users to categorize their events by subject, location, etc. Categorized events make it easier for users to find and attend events that interest them.

• Event Email Notifications
As the admin, you can edit the emails sent out to the user when an invitation is made, a new comment is posted about the event, or when a new comment is posted on one of the files/photos of the event.

• Event Listings
As the admin, you can see all the event listings posted by your users. You can monitor and search these classifieds to delete offensive material if necessary. As the user, you can view your own events, upload photos, as well as browse the marketplace.

• Event Browser
Users can browse events by searching or simply browsing by category.

CHAT

• Effecient AJAX Chat System
Our chatroom utilizes an effecient AJAX backend to avoid annoying page-refreshing and heavy server loads.

• Smilies, Sounds, and Timestamps
Users can post chat messages with smilies and stylized fonts. They can also enable or disable sound notifications and timestamps.

• Privacy Settings
As the admin, you can allow users to chat, kick users out of a current chatroom, and decide whether or not the user’s photo is shown next to their username. You can also ban specific users from logging into the chat.

• Update Frequency
As the admin, you can change the frequency with which the server gets new data. A shorter amount of time will make the chat slightly faster but will also consume more server resources.

• Who's Online
Users can view who else is currently chatting in the chatroom. As the admin, you choose if the who's online list should appear as a series of user photos or a simple list of usernames.

PRIVATE MESSAGES

• Message inbox/outbox
Users are given a familiar email-style message manager where they can view both incoming and outgoing private messages.

• Message limits
As the admin, you can decide how many messages each user is able to store in their inbox/outbox. You can also decide who your users can send messages to - nobody, all registered users, or just their friends.

• Conversation history
When two users send multiple messages back and forth, the conversation history is displayed below the messages. This allows users to keep track of the conversation and reply accordingly.

• New message notifications
Users can choose to receive email notifications each time they receive a private message. This encourages interactivity and return visits to your social network.

BROWSE AND SEARCH

• Separate MySQL database
The integrated search engine stores its data in a separate database. If your social networks grows to be very large, we can move this database to another server to save resources and reduce server load.

• Immediate indexing
Every time a user updates their profile, uploads something to their album, writes a blog entry, etc., the search engine's cache of the page they modified is updated. This means that pages indexed by the search engine will be searchable on a "near realtime" basis.

OTHER TOOLS

• Email announcements
Through the admin panel, you can compose and send an email to every user on your system. This is an effective way to encourage inactive users to return to your social network.

• News announcements
Through the admin panel, you can post news announcements which users can read from the portal page, their welcome page (where they go after being logged in), or any other part of your social network. This keeps your users appraised about what is going on in the social network, and will encourage them that your service is active and lively.

• Comprehensive statistics
The admin panel includes a social network statistics area. This area features automatically-generated graphs that show you the levels of activity on your social network over various time periods. X2:Social also keeps track of the most common referring URLs to your social network, which illustrates where most of your traffic is coming from.

• Access log
The admin panel includes a list of the last 300 login attempts to your social network. This gives you an effective way of identifying and banning abusive users.

PAYMENT SYSTEM

Cool feature 1 - Enable / Disable viewing profiles - an excellent recipe for dating-alike sites!
Cool feature 2 - Require mandatory subscription per level
Flexible Subscription plans, daily, weekly, monthly with recurring payments or manual payments, set trial periods
Don't loose your money! - Pro-rate when upgrading plan - most of the subscription solutions on the web don't allow you to change subscription in the middle, because of the subscription limitations of paypal and thus you are left with a dilemma - your members want immediate access to what they pay, but you can't do that, unless you loose the upgrade cost - no more!
Admin or Users can cancel & upgrade subscriptions without leaving website and getting lost in paypal jungle
Automatic subscriptions renewal / expiration
Choosing subscription plan during signup
Integrated payment gateways
Uses Advanced Paypal API for better plan management
Subscriptions associated with levels in SocialEngine
Automatic downgrade to predefined level after subscription expiration
Admin - Dashboard / Overview - quick glance on your website cash performance
Flexible subscription plans management interface
Income reports - Watch how successfully you monetize your site and track income records
Email Notifications on new subscriptions, expiring, expired, cancelled and renewed plans
Easy current subscription management interface for admin & user
Cancel / Renew / Upgrade subscriptions without leaving the website
Integrated shopping cart

Dealership Website

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Our state of the art Technology and creative designs will empower any vehicle dealership looking to build their online brand

This product was originally developed for prestigious brands such as Maserati and Ferrari Dealers, then extended to high end wholesalers and dealers of cars, bikes and boat.

Any Dealership or Vehicle broker will greatly enhance their market share by providing their existing and potential clients visibility of their database within a very stylish environment. Look and feel will be customized to fit your brand and target market.

STANDARD FEATURES

The Dealership Website management system is an online software solution driven through your web browser and used to manage and control dynamic collection of vehicle data. You are able to have as many vehicle as you wish. With a simple to follow online form anyone that you have approved can add vehicle inside the database and if approved can be instantly published on the web.

Get your Dealership online and start building your online brand.

The Dealership Website facilitates document control, auditing, editing, and timeline management. X2-Dealership™ gives large and small organisations the power to distribute the management of their web content to the people who create it, saving time and freeing up specialist IT resources.

The Dealership Website Feature List

Umlimited # of vehicles
Automatic Photo resizing
Powerful customised search engine
Customized look and feel to suit your business
Flexible User Management & Security
Add multiple, secure members’ areas to your website
Provide online registration for new users
Assign a user to any members’ areas (channels)
Multi level security (roles) in each channel.
Add & manage files/documents for downloads
Files are saved in any specified location on the server; no database space required for file storage
Files from secure member’s areas cannot be downloaded without user authorisation
Check in/out, versioning & rollback support
Create & manage calendar-based listings
Create news, journals, blogs, or any calendar-based postings
Customize listing layout and style using templates
Team collaboration & workflow support (check in/out, versioning, rollback & approval)
Embed latest postings on any page
Create & manage articles, knowledge-base, file list, photo galleries, or any general purpose listings
Create rich content entries with file downloads, photos, and online video/audio presentation (mp3)
Easy-to-navigate paged listing with configurable ordering
Manage few or large number of listing entries with option to include/exclude entries from site menu
Content locking (check in/out in easy or advanced mode)
Quick "Save & Publish" or approval-based publishing (workflow) scenarios
Automated versioning and rollback support (facility to restore previous revision)
All essential site navigation elements
Vertical menu, horizontal menu, dropdown menu, top & bottom menus, breadcrumbs, sub menu, and quick links.

Additional Features

Easy to use
The simple user interface and logical approach make the vehicle and site content management accessible to businesses without dedicated IT staff. After 10 minutes of training you will know exactly how to use it. it's that simple

Robust and secure
Don’t let its simplicity fool you. With features you’d expect to find only in high-end CMS packages, and the flexibility of channel-based permissions system. The Dealership Website can meet the content management needs of large, multi-department organisations.

Versatile and secure document management
Because content is more than just web pages, X2Dealership™ offers secure document management of MS Office documents, PDF files, graphics… whatever files you need to distribution.

Advanced Team Collaboration features
The Dealership Website makes it easy for multiple team members to work together on your web content. Automatic page locking ensures that changes can’t be accidentally over-written. A comprehensive Version History feature enables you to track changes and restore previous versions of any page. And a flexible approval workflow lets you specify the most appropriate approval process for each section of your website.

Listings
Maximum Flexibility in Layout & Content Presentation. Additionally, the Custom Listing feature enables you to create listings from any content in your CMS and re-use it anywhere on your website. For example, you could create a list of featured products and place it in a specified position (left or right column, top or bottom of body) on your homepage.

Videos
You can create a collection of videos (FLV) which can be viewed on your site with the provided player – it’s like your company’s own private YouTube.

Downloadable product sales
You can offer digital products by secure download for your, while providing public access to evaluation versions.

MP3 playlists
You can create a playlist of your audio files and let your users play them using the built-in MP3 player.

Image galleries
You can have a gallery containing a few photos of team members can be ordered manually, while at the same time providing a large collection of product photos that your visitors can sort by date, popularity (most hits or most downloads), etc.

Document downloads lists
You can create a list of files/documents for download, with a different access level on each document so your users/groups will only see documents relevant to them.
Listings offer advanced users the following:

Advantages of check-in/check-out for collaborative authoring
Versioning so that you can rollback your content to a previous revision
Flexible approval workflow

All essential Site elements
Search, Printer-friendly page rendering, site map, publishing info, comment posting, content rating, etc.

Complete navigation control
Show/hide pages from site navigation specify display links and specify their ordering within the site navigation menu

Scheduled publishing
Publish web content immediately or on a scheduled basis

Polls
Create polls that can easily be added to any page

Forum
Setup forum with ease and let users communicate with each other, discuss issues or share ideas

Form Builder
Create custom form for general purpose data collection

Multi-language Sites
The Dealership Website allows you to create multi-language sites, allows visitors to view site text and captions in their own language, and automatically rendering date and number format according to the visitor's preferences. Language selection is provided, configurable and can be placed anywhere on the site.

Use Templates to separate content from design
We will design your templates to suit different sections of your business.

Powerful Editing Capabilities
The Dealership Website provides an easy-to-use, fast-loading WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor for quick updates to your content.

User-friendly URLs
Content stored in the database can be accessed through friendly URLs. Use custom or auto generated URLs.