Cost Effective Solutions
There's
a big to-do lately about the effect that Microsoft's
IE Java Patch has had on imbedded Java/ActiveX on
your web page. In fact, at least two marketers have
come out with very costly solutions (one
is almost $100!) for the problem.
http://www.happinessu.org/
will show you how to fix the problem yourself OR
if you don't want to, don't know how to, or just
don't have time, you can follow the link at the
top of his page, cut 'n paste your page into his
form, and it will fix it automatically for you....
There are a ton of other solutions available, which
you can find if you run a search on - EOLAS - in
Google.
Blogs
b2evolution
- http://b2evolution.net/
- FREE
A
blog script featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories,
skins, search function, multiple languages, search
engines friendly URLs and a user forum.
Nucleus
- http://nucleuscms.org/
- FREE
A
powerful blog script featuring multiple blogs, multiple
authors, drafts and future posts, bookmarklets and
a user forum.
WordPress
- http://wordpress.org/
- FREE
WordPress
is a personal publishing tool with focus on aesthetics
and featuring cross-blog tool, password protected
posts, importing, typographical niceties, multiple
authors, bookmarklets and a user forum.
Customer
Support
Crafty
Syntax Live Help - http://www.craftysyntax.com/
- FREE
A
Live Help chat system featuring monitor your visitors,
proactively open a chat session, multiple chat sessions,
referer tracking, page view tracking, multiple operators,
canned responses/images/URLs, multiple departments
each with different icons, leave a message. Offers
a user supportforum
Help
Center Live - http://www.helpcenterlive.com/
- FREE
Very
powerful all-in-one help center including Live Help,
Support Tickets and FAQ. Features include unlimited
operators/departments, monitor visitors, initiate
chat, collect visitor's information, track visitor's
footprint, autosave chat transcripts, canned messages,
leave a message, auto-assign tickets to operators,
unlimited FAQ topics and a user forum.
osTicket
- http://www.osticket.com/server/
- FREE
A
Support Tickets system featuring email piping, pop3
login, unlimited email addresses, admin/staff/user
panels, avoid autoresponder loops, limit maximun
tickets user can have opened, accept attachments
and limit size, pager alerts for admin and a user
forum.
Forums/Bulletin
Boards
phpBB2
- http://www.phpbb.com/
- FREE
A
widely-popular open-source bulletin-board package,
works well, simple user interface and admin panel,
clean look, scales well, and can be customized.
Support forum.
SMF
- http://www.simplemachines.org/
- FREE
Elegant.
Effective. Powerful. Free. SMF is all of the above.
SMF is a next-generation community software package
and is jam-packed with features, while at the same
time having a minimal impact on resources.
Shopping
Carts
OS
Commerce - http://oscommerce.com/
- FREE
A
power-user shopping cart with a big variety of modules
and support of almost every payment gateway. A big
developers community is ready to offer custom solutions
depending on your needs. User forum.
Zen
Cart - http://www.zen-cart.com/
- FREE
Zen
Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly,
open source shopping cart system. The software is
being developed by group of like-minded shop owners,
programmers, designers, and consultants that think
e-commerce could be and should be done differently.
User forum.
Surveys
PHPSurveyor
- http://www.phpsurveyor.org/
- FREE
Develop,
publish and collect responses to surveys. Display
surveys as single questions, group by group or all
in one page or use a dataentry system for administration
of paper-based versions of the survey. PHP Surveyor
can produce 'branching' surveys (set conditions
on whether individual questions will display), can
vary the look and feel of your survey through a
templating system, and can provide basic statistical
analysis of your survey results. User Forum.
Advanced
Poll - http://www.proxy2.de/scripts.php
- FREE
A
highly windows-inspired poll script. Advanced Poll
is a polling system with powerful administration
tool. It features: multiple polls, templates, unlimited
options, multi-language support, IP-Logging, IP-Locking,
cookie support, comment feature, vote expire feature,
random poll support and more. Supports textfile
and mySQL database. Lots of other cool/useful scripts
on their site too! User forum.
Miscellaneous
Mega
List Builder- http://NetActivated.com/mml.htm
- FREE
This
FREE List Builder will ELIMINATE all of the problems
created by so called safelists, junk co-reg leads
and more. Now you can SAFELY email people that actually
WANT to read your emails, and never have
to be worried about being accused of spamming. Easy
to sign up, easy to use.
Moodle
- http://moodle.org/
- FREE
A
course management system designed to help educators
create quality online courses. Available in 34 languages
and features a WYSIWYG HTML editor. The teacher
has full control over all settings for a course.
There is a flexible array of course activities (Forums,
Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys,
Assignments, Chats, Workshops), user logging and
tracking, mail integration, a user forum and much
more.
FAQMasterFlex
- http://www.technetguru.net/design/faqmasterflex.php
- FREE
Unlimited
categories/questions/answers, web-based administration
and a user forum.
PHPlist
- http://www.tincan.co.uk/
- FREE
A
powerful mailing list featuring multiple mailing
lists, attachments and a user forum.
phpFormGenerator
- http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/
- FREE
A
form generator featuring up to 100 form fields,
all kind of input fields incl. file upload, customizable
fields attributes, send submitted data to an email
address or store them in a database, admin panel,
user forum.
More
on the way as I have time to hunt them down &
add them