Social Networking Portal Web Design

As per the recent reports, the maximum number of searches being made on the internet nowadays is nothing but "Social Networking". This is a new of being in touch with old friends, make new friends and make new business contacts. In fact, social networking website portal are the ones which are getting the most number of visitors and repeat visitors everyday.

It all started with Orkut, wherein as the story goes, a guy wanted to find his lost love and he created a website wherein people could update if they had seen her lost love. One thing led to another and it spiralled into a full fledged social networking website. It became so famous that the search engine giant Google took interest in it and bought Orkut. There are many other social networking websites around like myspace.com, hi5.com, linkedin.com, in.com, pratyax.com and many more to name.

Each social networking site has been pretty succesful till date. If you want to imitate their success and deploy a social networking portal web design and earn by displaying advertisements on it, than we can help. Web Design Temple, a leading web development company offers you a complete turnkey Social Networking Portal Web Design which has the following features;

Tags [NEW!]
* tag clouds appear on all pages for blogs, music and video modules
* modules settings:
enable/disable module
minimum and maximum amount of tags to show
minimum string length of a tag
minimum and maximum font sizes
cache lifetime

Social Bookmarking [NEW!]
* social bookmarking buttons appear on blogs, music and video view pages
* admin can enabled/disable module and setup engines
* default engines:
Favorites (browser favorites)
Del.icio.us
Digg
Furl
Magnolia
StumbleUpon
Google
Yahoo
Technorati
BlinkList

Recording
* members can send voice or video messages to each other
* members can post audio or video testimonials for other members
* audio/video blogging
* audio/video comments for blog posts, music entries and video uploads
* admin is able to setup a limit of disk space allocated for each user's multimedia content

Video Chat
* members can invite each other to a video chat
* ability to ignore user
* admin is able to setup daily user usage time for video chat

Music
* members can upload music media files (sound or video)
* members can input external embed tags (such as YouTube, Yahoo! Videos)
* other members can listen/view medias, vote for them and leave comments
* ability to search music by artist or title name
* ability to browse music files
* unique MP3 player is used to play MP3 files (view screenshot)

Videos
* members can upload their fun/home videos and put them to various categories
* members can input external embed tags (such as YouTube, Yahoo! Videos)
* other members can view videos, vote for them and leave comments
* ability to search for video files
* ability to browse videos by categories
* all videos are converted into the FLV format during upload
* screenshots are created on the fly
* unique FLV player is used to play video files (view screenshot)

Flash Chat and Instant Messenger
* members can chat in public rooms or in club-private rooms
* members can send each other instant messages
* IM supports smileys
* members can add their friends to IM contacts lists and get instant notifications if any of them comes online

Profiles
* full control over profile questions and sections
* members can choose a preset template for their profile or create their own using HTML and CSS tags, just like they do it on myspace.com
* members can easily add sound or video to their profile, which will be automatically embedded into their profile page
* profile page includes a brief list of member's recent blogs, classifieds, events, clubs and a preview of member's photo album
* profiles can be bookmarked

Hot or Not
* members can upload their photos and allow other members to vote for them and leave comments
* top lists: any gender, male and female separate top lists

Blogs
* members are not limited to just one blog and can start a blog for each topic they want to share their throughts for
* other members can post comments for each blog post
* ability to attach images to the post
* ability to personalize blog by choosing a template, modify colors, use custom CSS tags
* blogs can be bookmarked

Classifieds
* members can post their classified ads and put them in a particular category/subcategory
* other members can send replies for classified ads
* ability to upload an image for the ad
* ability to personalize classified ad by choosing a template, modify colors, use custom CSS tags
* classifieds can be bookmarked

Events
* members can announce date/time/location based events
* other members can attend events and see who's already in an attendees list
* ability to personalize event by choosing a template, modify colors, use custom CSS tags
* events can be bookmarked

Clubs
* members can create clubs with different access level: public (anyone can join), moderated (moderator approves/declines join requests from other members), private (invitation only)
* each club includes club classifieds, club events, club discussion board, club photos
* moderator of the club has an ability to manage members (delete existing members or invite new ones)
* ability to personalize club by choosing a template, modify colors, use custom CSS tags
* clubs can be bookmarked

eCards
* members can send eCards to other members of your site or to their "external" friends
* ability to send eCards immediately or on date
* senders get notifications when their eCard has been picked up by each recipient
* ability to personalize eCard by choosing a template, modify colors, use custom CSS tags
* eCards are being stored in "My Sent eCards" and "My Received eCards" special folders

GetPaid
* create multiple membership packages
* setup prices and payment periods for each package
* setup per-page or per-module access levels for each package
* offer members the ability to pay for making their blogs, classifieds, events or clubs to appear in "Featured" lists
* create advertisement campaigns
* upload banners or use external ad tags (such as Google AdSence or Overture)
* setup targeting for campaign ads: per-page targeting, geo targeting, categories targeting
* track sales history
* ability to approve pending orders manually

Forum
* admin can create and manage forums
* members can post topics (HTML tags support, smileys)
* members can post replies to other topics

Polls
* users can create their own polls with a question and a number of answers
* other members can vote for their preferred answers and see statistics on how others have voted
* admin can approve / disapprove every new poll

ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Bulletins
Members are able to send a message to all of their friends at the same moment. These messages will appear in a special "Bulletins Space" section.

Photo Albums
Members can upload photos and put them to their photo albums. They can also limit access to each album for various groups of members.

Instant Notifications
Members will see instant notifications at the right-bottom of their screen when their friend comes online, when there's a new visitor on their profile, when new message arrives and when there's a calendar reminder set for the current moment.

Geo-Positioning System
Social Networking Portal Web Design comes with a complete DB of world countries, states and cities, from which members can choose their location. Script then uses this data to calculate distance between members or return search results within specified distance.

Unique "Colorize Template" feature
Your members can personalize their profile, blog, classified ad, event or club by changing colors of the chosen template. It's not just CSS style modifications - it's ACTUALLY colorizing images, used in a template.

WYSIWYG HTML Editor
Well-known multiplatform HTML editor TinyMCE (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com) is integrated into all modules. It will help your members to create HTML-enhanced content for their profile, blog post, classified ad or event description without making them learn HTML.

Badwords Filter
If your site is supposed to be open for kids or you just want your members to be polite you can enable Badwords filter and all forbidden words will be stripped from users input. Admin has an ability to remove or modify existing badwords list or create your own.

Multilingual Support
Social Networking Portal Web Design has been written with a full support of international languages. You can configure the global encoding of the script - and all HTML output, DB entries, emails, etc. will be converted to the specified encoding.

Translate Tool
Ability to translate the whole script in few steps from admin console.

"Viewed me" section
Members are able to see who have viewed their profile.

"Bookmarked me" section
Members are able to see who have bookmarked their profile.

Saved Searches
Members can save their search and be notified by email when there's a new match to their search criteria.

Forum Integration
Social Networking Portal Web Design includes a preset integration into most popular forums: phpBB, vBulletin, Invision Power Board.

Address Book Import
Members can import their contacts from Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, MSN and MySpace and invite them to join your site.

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