~terry
Sat, Jul 3, 2004 (11:51)
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Starting now, the Spring has a community area for visitors and residents of our site. You can use it to personalize your experience on the Spring. You can create your blog, create your own webpage, build networks of friends, post articles, participate in forums, have your own calendar and share in a community calendar and much more.
http://spring.net/community is the address.
I encourage you to register or sign up and participate. I think you'll find many surprise features there and many new ways to interact with others visiting our website.
~terry
Sat, Jul 3, 2004 (16:09)
#1
The Wiki is a collaboration environment where the users can edit the pages they read. Links to wikipages are created automatically using capitalized words smashed together (e.g., WikiPage). A special editing syntax is used to provide features such as bold text, images, external links, etc. A history is kept for each page so admins can view diffs and rollback a page to a previous version if a user breaks a page. Wikis can be used for documentation, support, intranets, and many other uses. The Tiki Wiki system has all the normal features Wikis have plus a lot more.
~terry
Sat, Jul 3, 2004 (16:09)
#2
Image galleries are collections of images. Users can create galleries and upload images to private or public galleries. You can select the number of thumbnails to appear in gallery rows/files as well as the thumbnail's size. Thumbnails are automatically created by Tiki; you don t have to upload them. Galleries can be used for albums, stories, showrooms, and many other applications.
~terry
Sat, Jul 3, 2004 (16:09)
#3
Articles and submissions
The articles & submissions system allows editors to publish articles in a Content Management System (CMS).
Articles can belong to a topic and topics can be administered.
The articles can use an image or the topic image.
You can set the publishing date of any article--allowing you to program articles for the future.
The article content can use the Wiki syntax or regular HTML.
Links and images in articles are automatically cached to prevent content that resides in other pages from disappearing.
The CMS system also accepts submissions.
Users can send proposed articles and the editors can edit, remove, or approve submissions as articles.
There is an articles home page where the last n articles are shown. You can configure how many articles are shown.
~terry
Sat, Jul 3, 2004 (16:10)
#4
Blogs
Blogs are great and they are very popular today. A weblog is a collection of posts ordered by date. It's like a journal on the web. A post can be a comment about something the user did, a review, a thought, anything. The Tiki Blogs system is quite powerful. Users can create blogs and, of course, post entries into private or public blogs. If you want, you can choose a Blog and make it appear as the home page of the site. Tiki also implements the Blogger XMLRPC interface, allowing you to use applications such as wBloggar or Blogbuddy to manage and edit weblogs.
~terry
Sat, Jul 3, 2004 (16:10)
#5
Forums
Forums are a must-have feature for a community site. A forum is a collection of topics containing user messages. Using Tiki you can configure as many forums as you want and establish permissions to determine who can create forums, admin forums, create topics, post messages, vote on messages, etc. Individual permissions can be set for forums so you can have private forums only visible to some user groups. The forums section in Tiki has many advanced features such as auto-prunning to prevent the base of messages growing too big, flood-preventing, sticky topics, locked topics, etc.
~terry
Sat, Jul 3, 2004 (16:10)
#6
ChatRooms
Admins can create chat channels that users can join. Once in a channel, users post messages that are broadcast to all the users in the same chatroom. Chatroom messages are updated at a given interval that can be configured for each chat channel (you may want one channel to refresh faster than others).
~terry
Sat, Jul 3, 2004 (16:11)
#7
Polls
Polls are a common feature in user-community sites. Using Tiki you can create as many polls as you want and display from zero to n polls in the Tiki pages. You can also have a set of several active polls and display only one poll in a page. In that case, Tiki will rotate through the set of polls. Users with the right permission can see poll results, examine old polls and vote in any poll that is not closed.
~terry
Sat, Jul 3, 2004 (16:14)
#8
Many times the shout box feature is qualified as the best feature of a site, other times users say it's just junk. Be your judge, test it do whatever you want with it, here it is: the Tiki shout box.
What is the shout box?
Basically the shout box is a mixture between a graffitti wall and a chatroom, is like a chatroom where messages are refreshed only reloading the page. Basically users can send messages to the shout box and the last "n" messages are displayed. That's all, pretty simple.
In Tiki you have a two-way shout box, you can use the shout box screen and you can also use the shout box module.
Users can send messages, see the last "n" messages ("n" is here the number of rows for the shout box module) and if you have the permission you can remove messages or edit existing messages (will take you to the shout box screen).
~dot
Mon, Feb 14, 2005 (11:33)
#9
That shout box is cool.