Nat Sakimura joins the XOOPS Developement Team
We are very happy to announce that Nat Sakimura, is officially joining the XOOPS Development Team.
Nat Sakimura is the author for XOOPS OpenID module, and he will be implementing OpenID into XOOPS core for XOOPS 2.3* or 2.4, perhaps with another XOOPS core developer, while DJ will be working with him to implement OpenID into XOOPS 3.0
You can download the OpenID module from here...
Please extend a warm "welcome back" to Nat Sakimura.
With this we would like to officially extend an invitation to all past, non-active XOOPS developers to come back and join us on the journey of making XOOPS the best CMS in the world. We are sure that while you were away, you've learned a lot of new things and programming tricks, from which XOOPS could benefit. We've had couple of rough years, but we believe that we are now on track to something really awesome, and we would like you to be part of it.
There will be more exciting news coming....
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Nat Sakimura is the author for XOOPS OpenID module, and he will be implementing OpenID into XOOPS core for XOOPS 2.3* or 2.4, perhaps with another XOOPS core developer, while DJ will be working with him to implement OpenID into XOOPS 3.0
You can download the OpenID module from here...
Please extend a warm "welcome back" to Nat Sakimura.
With this we would like to officially extend an invitation to all past, non-active XOOPS developers to come back and join us on the journey of making XOOPS the best CMS in the world. We are sure that while you were away, you've learned a lot of new things and programming tricks, from which XOOPS could benefit. We've had couple of rough years, but we believe that we are now on track to something really awesome, and we would like you to be part of it.
There will be more exciting news coming....
Fisconelmondo.it and AlessandroBonelli.it with XOOPS!
Fisconelmondo.it (May 2005) and Alessandrobonelli.it (August 2007) are two Italian websites published with a relatively long time difference from each other, but they share a common denominator, the Xoops platform!
Both sites have been developed by me in a short time, thanks to the famous qualities and implementation possibilities shared by Xoops, that are well known salient characteristics of this platform.
http://www.Fisconelmondo.it, an open window on international economics, is an institutional webzine realized for the agency I work for as an IT specialist (you won't need much time to understand which one it is if you take a look at the site).
The original idea was created by the communications’ director that considered the IT panorama as mature enough for an editorial product focused on international economics. The webzine offers to the reader analysis and comments on tributary European and extra-European legislation, indications on latest developments in terms of normative and laws of UE and extra-European countries, lessons on international economic laws and a glossary of most common terms in the commercial field. Moreover, it grants access to the useful Country charts: these charts allow the reader to gather information on institutional, economical and tributary laws and rules of many countries in the world, mostly European ones, in an easy and swift way (just by clicking on the country map). Last, on the site, the reader is also able to obtain many updated documents regarding rules on VAT and double impositions tax matter useful to understand actual laws and economical treatment on different European countries and other of UEM (monetary and economic Union). Before it all started to exist, there was a similar by contents product, published and distributed on paper, that was subsequently developed as a .pdf file (the MemoEntrate). This next step represents a more compliant product, in terms of quality and usefulness in accessing different contents.
The site grew constantly and linearly in time, reaching 1500 visits per day, with peaks of 1800. For being such a “specialized” site, for the kind of arguments reported, the results are more than appreciable and the site, right now, represents a well known tool in the panorama of Italian sites regarding economics.
The second site is my own personal one, that I developed for playing a bit and for sharing what I like with friends and colleagues. Number of visits doesn’t concern me much, as it is 100 times smaller than the numbers obtained by http://www.Fisconelmondo.it. Before I created this site, I also spent some time developing another personal site, that I developed by HTML (old times, old times…) using the always excellent Dreamweaver. Slowness in updating pages and connected technical difficulties were obviously too hard to keep it that way, so a step in the direction of a content manager was necessary in order to make the website ddynamic.
The construction of the site followed a well defined path: first of all the research of nice and easily modifiable templates (with style sheets well developed and with little/without tables), the customization of modules completing the core, the customization of a professional hosting (fitting for real necessities of security and performance). More than this predominantly technical requisites, the concept part of creation was the one to require more time than the other ones and more resources (as it was supposed to be). http://www.Fisconelmondo.it had to possess a long series of services like articles, RSS, a fast research motor for inside the site, a newsletter, all with a simple and efficient style, so that reader’s attention could be focused on contents instead on the creating the the contents. On the contrary, in my site, I’ve been able to play on multimedial contents, adding then, i.e., videos, dictionaries, images from Meteosat.
Sites have recently been updated with last version of Xoops (2.0.18.1). Among installed modules:
* C-Jay Content e Edito (static contents)
* News e SmartSection (dynamic contents)
* Liaise (contact modules)
* Wordbook e Lexicon (glossary/dictionaries)
* MultiMenu (dynamic menu)
* Protector (security management)
* xhld (external rss management)
* MyAlbum-P (images managing)
* SmartPartner (external link management)
* WebShow (video management)
For the ones already translated in Italian, customization working was relatively easy; for the other ones, I had to work hard in order to translate user interface (for the backoffice, English worked good).
Sites were developed using Windows with Wamp and Notepad++/Ultraedit. Using Firebug extension in Firefox, in order to clean the code and reach the so much desired XHTML validation 1.0 and CSS, was of great aid. The passage to Unix/Linux for the chosen hosting was not difficult, except for settling all permissions on files/directories in the correct way.
Among problems encountered and “learned lessons”, I could mention:
- The importance of continuously making a backup of the site and database (for this last one, take care of codification in the export phase, as if it’s incorrectly made, it causes the lost of characters, typical of non-English languages);
- The importance of writing easy to understand manuals for articles’ writers,(this for Fisconelmondo.it only) as it is essential in order to get rid of a necessary cooperation, that can be real hard if lasts for long times, without being able to release what has been created for the final user;
- The optimization of the site by an accurate managing of caching mechanisms can make delivery of contents much more effeccive
- Many problems were encountered for the XHTML validation, especially with MultiMenu module, that needed a substantial restyling.
Alessandro Bonelli
Gianluca Di Muro (Chief editorial staff for Fisconelmondo.it)
Comments?
Both sites have been developed by me in a short time, thanks to the famous qualities and implementation possibilities shared by Xoops, that are well known salient characteristics of this platform.
http://www.Fisconelmondo.it, an open window on international economics, is an institutional webzine realized for the agency I work for as an IT specialist (you won't need much time to understand which one it is if you take a look at the site).
The original idea was created by the communications’ director that considered the IT panorama as mature enough for an editorial product focused on international economics. The webzine offers to the reader analysis and comments on tributary European and extra-European legislation, indications on latest developments in terms of normative and laws of UE and extra-European countries, lessons on international economic laws and a glossary of most common terms in the commercial field. Moreover, it grants access to the useful Country charts: these charts allow the reader to gather information on institutional, economical and tributary laws and rules of many countries in the world, mostly European ones, in an easy and swift way (just by clicking on the country map). Last, on the site, the reader is also able to obtain many updated documents regarding rules on VAT and double impositions tax matter useful to understand actual laws and economical treatment on different European countries and other of UEM (monetary and economic Union). Before it all started to exist, there was a similar by contents product, published and distributed on paper, that was subsequently developed as a .pdf file (the MemoEntrate). This next step represents a more compliant product, in terms of quality and usefulness in accessing different contents.
The site grew constantly and linearly in time, reaching 1500 visits per day, with peaks of 1800. For being such a “specialized” site, for the kind of arguments reported, the results are more than appreciable and the site, right now, represents a well known tool in the panorama of Italian sites regarding economics.
The second site is my own personal one, that I developed for playing a bit and for sharing what I like with friends and colleagues. Number of visits doesn’t concern me much, as it is 100 times smaller than the numbers obtained by http://www.Fisconelmondo.it. Before I created this site, I also spent some time developing another personal site, that I developed by HTML (old times, old times…) using the always excellent Dreamweaver. Slowness in updating pages and connected technical difficulties were obviously too hard to keep it that way, so a step in the direction of a content manager was necessary in order to make the website ddynamic.
The construction of the site followed a well defined path: first of all the research of nice and easily modifiable templates (with style sheets well developed and with little/without tables), the customization of modules completing the core, the customization of a professional hosting (fitting for real necessities of security and performance). More than this predominantly technical requisites, the concept part of creation was the one to require more time than the other ones and more resources (as it was supposed to be). http://www.Fisconelmondo.it had to possess a long series of services like articles, RSS, a fast research motor for inside the site, a newsletter, all with a simple and efficient style, so that reader’s attention could be focused on contents instead on the creating the the contents. On the contrary, in my site, I’ve been able to play on multimedial contents, adding then, i.e., videos, dictionaries, images from Meteosat.
Sites have recently been updated with last version of Xoops (2.0.18.1). Among installed modules:
* C-Jay Content e Edito (static contents)
* News e SmartSection (dynamic contents)
* Liaise (contact modules)
* Wordbook e Lexicon (glossary/dictionaries)
* MultiMenu (dynamic menu)
* Protector (security management)
* xhld (external rss management)
* MyAlbum-P (images managing)
* SmartPartner (external link management)
* WebShow (video management)
For the ones already translated in Italian, customization working was relatively easy; for the other ones, I had to work hard in order to translate user interface (for the backoffice, English worked good).
Sites were developed using Windows with Wamp and Notepad++/Ultraedit. Using Firebug extension in Firefox, in order to clean the code and reach the so much desired XHTML validation 1.0 and CSS, was of great aid. The passage to Unix/Linux for the chosen hosting was not difficult, except for settling all permissions on files/directories in the correct way.
Among problems encountered and “learned lessons”, I could mention:
- The importance of continuously making a backup of the site and database (for this last one, take care of codification in the export phase, as if it’s incorrectly made, it causes the lost of characters, typical of non-English languages);
- The importance of writing easy to understand manuals for articles’ writers,(this for Fisconelmondo.it only) as it is essential in order to get rid of a necessary cooperation, that can be real hard if lasts for long times, without being able to release what has been created for the final user;
- The optimization of the site by an accurate managing of caching mechanisms can make delivery of contents much more effeccive
- Many problems were encountered for the XHTML validation, especially with MultiMenu module, that needed a substantial restyling.
Alessandro Bonelli
Gianluca Di Muro (Chief editorial staff for Fisconelmondo.it)
SEO Paths & .htaccess
Well as you may have noticed I have been doing some examples in the wiki for .htaccess this is for primarily SEO Clean Paths for xoops, the modules I have chosen for the example in sharing this code is code for CBB (1.5, 2.2, 3.x), News 1.4+ (May work on earlier), myalbum-P, SmartSection 2.2, CatAds & the userinfo.php page.
What I have been doing over the last few weeks is testing various SEO paths to see what brings ultimate traffic, remember in changing your websites URL you may get sandboxed for a few months as the search engine detects a sitewide change.
Search Engine Optimization is an important step in making friendly paths for both Search Engines and the End Users, you normal for example use a dash (-) not an underscore (_) to SEO as this is detected and more compatible with a search engine algoritms, it is also helpful for natural language query.
You may also find various other SEO improvements you can make to stop keyword stuffing (Example Titles to Keywords) and so on my wiki profile page (these are deep in the forums).
Some example of some friendly SEO paths I have generated are as so:
Content 1.x: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/content/Introduction-to-ETE/1
News 1.4: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/news/This-Website/SEO-Paths/14
MyAlbum-P 1.5: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/gallery/Ancient-History/3,0,10,0,1,titleA
wflinks: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/weblinks/Alien-Information/2,0,0,0,dateA
CBB 3.08: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/forums/ETE-General-Topic/New-Toliet-for-the-Space-Station/8,46,65,0,0,0,0
userinfo.php http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/user/wishcraft/1
Remember these SEO paths will increase traffic and delievery into your search engines, you must use a 301 Permanently Moved Redirection as this will remove the old link from the search engine and replace it with the new one.
The general rule for an SEO path is to contain something to do with the title, area of the site and category, remember to include at least the item identification number if possible for legal reasons.
SEO is a big step in improving the cleanliness of your site, as well as your image, we will be doing this here at xoops.org in the not to distant future.
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What I have been doing over the last few weeks is testing various SEO paths to see what brings ultimate traffic, remember in changing your websites URL you may get sandboxed for a few months as the search engine detects a sitewide change.
Search Engine Optimization is an important step in making friendly paths for both Search Engines and the End Users, you normal for example use a dash (-) not an underscore (_) to SEO as this is detected and more compatible with a search engine algoritms, it is also helpful for natural language query.
You may also find various other SEO improvements you can make to stop keyword stuffing (Example Titles to Keywords) and so on my wiki profile page (these are deep in the forums).
Some example of some friendly SEO paths I have generated are as so:
Content 1.x: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/content/Introduction-to-ETE/1
News 1.4: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/news/This-Website/SEO-Paths/14
MyAlbum-P 1.5: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/gallery/Ancient-History/3,0,10,0,1,titleA
wflinks: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/weblinks/Alien-Information/2,0,0,0,dateA
CBB 3.08: http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/forums/ETE-General-Topic/New-Toliet-for-the-Space-Station/8,46,65,0,0,0,0
userinfo.php http://www.extraterrestrialembassy.com/user/wishcraft/1
Remember these SEO paths will increase traffic and delievery into your search engines, you must use a 301 Permanently Moved Redirection as this will remove the old link from the search engine and replace it with the new one.
The general rule for an SEO path is to contain something to do with the title, area of the site and category, remember to include at least the item identification number if possible for legal reasons.
SEO is a big step in improving the cleanliness of your site, as well as your image, we will be doing this here at xoops.org in the not to distant future.
My Tabs 1.0
What is mytabs Module (v1.0) ?
======================
With this Xoops module, your can create blocks with several tabs an blocks inside.
The module can :
. Create any blocks you want (just clone the original)
. Create any pages (holders for tabs) you want so you can choose in the block what page to show
. Create any tabs you want per page
. Create any blocks you want per tabs
. Set group view permissons per block/page, tab and block
. Set time based tabs and blocks (auto-expiring)
. Choose from 5 diferent page/block layouts
. Use how many blocks you want in the same page or not (just clone and set them)
. Many other goodies like cache, position, scroll, width, etc
Demo here:
http://www.xuups.com
Download here:
http://code.google.com/p/xuups/downloads/list
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With this Xoops module, your can create blocks with several tabs an blocks inside.
The module can :
. Create any blocks you want (just clone the original)
. Create any pages (holders for tabs) you want so you can choose in the block what page to show
. Create any tabs you want per page
. Create any blocks you want per tabs
. Set group view permissons per block/page, tab and block
. Set time based tabs and blocks (auto-expiring)
. Choose from 5 diferent page/block layouts
. Use how many blocks you want in the same page or not (just clone and set them)
. Many other goodies like cache, position, scroll, width, etc
Demo here:
http://www.xuups.com
Download here:
http://code.google.com/p/xuups/downloads/list
Roussin Academy Reunion
Our new "Roussin Academy Reunion" website is a good exemple of what an "alumni get together" site should look like.
We used many different modules such as: mx-directory, yogurt, extcal, mastop publish, liaise and smartpartner.
http://www.roussinacademy.com
Dagpacollege - a different new website is born
Dagpa Company is proud to announce the development of new website: a community of university students in Lebanon.
The website is created to help Lebanese students to find a part time job, to buy and sell a useful products for their university (pc loan, rent a room..., etc.), also they can broadcast themselves with a special way: via small video talking about their education and what kind of job they're looking for, they can also share their university projects, take quizzes, psychological tests, survey and quizzes. They can share their university events: arts, culture. etc.
We have used xoops 2.0.18.1 with more than 3o modules, some of these modules are changed and merged with other modules to keep make the idea better.
Below some of modules used:
- weblog (transformed to be compatible with php 5)
- xcgal
- pical
- excal
- catads
- jobs (a cloned version of catads with some important changes)
- smart profile
- yogurt ( with some changes)
- newbb forum with useful changes to be an open Q & A and not a forum
- my links
- resources (a hacked version of my links 1.1.)
- tests (a hacked version of my quiz 3)
- my quiz
- survey and polls
- xm memberstat (it totally transformed to another module)
- book lists
- my album
- recipes
- xoops tube
and much more of modules and hacked modules (150 mb only for modules)
The website is the idea of Mr. David Matta, designed and developed by : Mowaffak Ali (arab xoops), Marcello Brandao (yogurt creator), and Mariane Antoun, and translated ino arabic (soon) by Wa3ed Tannoura and Mariane Antoun.
It's a large community of university students, easy to use, easy to load. It deserves your visit and waiting your precious comments:
http://www.dagpacollege.com
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The website is created to help Lebanese students to find a part time job, to buy and sell a useful products for their university (pc loan, rent a room..., etc.), also they can broadcast themselves with a special way: via small video talking about their education and what kind of job they're looking for, they can also share their university projects, take quizzes, psychological tests, survey and quizzes. They can share their university events: arts, culture. etc.
We have used xoops 2.0.18.1 with more than 3o modules, some of these modules are changed and merged with other modules to keep make the idea better.
Below some of modules used:
- weblog (transformed to be compatible with php 5)
- xcgal
- pical
- excal
- catads
- jobs (a cloned version of catads with some important changes)
- smart profile
- yogurt ( with some changes)
- newbb forum with useful changes to be an open Q & A and not a forum
- my links
- resources (a hacked version of my links 1.1.)
- tests (a hacked version of my quiz 3)
- my quiz
- survey and polls
- xm memberstat (it totally transformed to another module)
- book lists
- my album
- recipes
- xoops tube
and much more of modules and hacked modules (150 mb only for modules)
The website is the idea of Mr. David Matta, designed and developed by : Mowaffak Ali (arab xoops), Marcello Brandao (yogurt creator), and Mariane Antoun, and translated ino arabic (soon) by Wa3ed Tannoura and Mariane Antoun.
It's a large community of university students, easy to use, easy to load. It deserves your visit and waiting your precious comments:
http://www.dagpacollege.com
Video Tube v1.5 Now With YouTube Search
One of the most requested features is now available in Video Tube. We have added the ability to search YouTube without visitors having to leave your site. Along with the search function we also provide a video preview as well as video submission form auto-fill. We know everyone has been looking for additional XOOPS type features such as categories, comments and notifications but this feature is so cool we didn't want to make everyone wait for the next major release.
Currently the video search feature is part of the Submit A Video available to visitors. We will be changing the Admin - Add A Video to utilize the same interface. We are also going to be doing some fine tuning of the feature so we look forward to your feedback as we forge ahead towards the next major release - Video Tube v2.0.
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Currently the video search feature is part of the Submit A Video available to visitors. We will be changing the Admin - Add A Video to utilize the same interface. We are also going to be doing some fine tuning of the feature so we look forward to your feedback as we forge ahead towards the next major release - Video Tube v2.0.
XOOPS Vietnamese Support Site Opens
We are happy to announce that we have now a new XOOPS Support Site in Vietnam:
http://www.xoopsviet.com/
It is definitely very exciting to see that XOOPS is growing and winning new friends and supporters all over the world!!! So please welcome our new XOOPS friends in Vietnam and wish them Happy XOOPSing!!!
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http://www.xoopsviet.com/
It is definitely very exciting to see that XOOPS is growing and winning new friends and supporters all over the world!!! So please welcome our new XOOPS friends in Vietnam and wish them Happy XOOPSing!!!
Xintervice, an other new theme for Xoops
Xintervice, is a transcription of a XHTML/CSS template, created by Solucija.
Specifications :
- 3 columns
- Content margin limite to 980px
- Banner display
- Userbar in the header
The Xintervice theme is delivered with system_redirect.html template of system module.
Download
You can download this theme via this link !
Demonstration
To see Xintervice in action, click here
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Specifications :
- 3 columns
- Content margin limite to 980px
- Banner display
- Userbar in the header
The Xintervice theme is delivered with system_redirect.html template of system module.
Download
You can download this theme via this link !
Demonstration
To see Xintervice in action, click here
XooFoo Community for Xoopsers
XooFoo.org opens a http://Community.XooFoo.org">new site with Community ambition and multilanguage.
It is based on the following modules :
- Yogurt (Social Network),
- XoopsLifeType (Multiblogs),
- Bookmark (Social Bokkmarks),
- Multiples Planet Clone (Rss News),
- XoopsMembers (Member),
- Polls (XoopsPoll and Umfrage),
- Cbb for forum,
- Inthetube (video search and show on youtube),
- and MPmanager for private messages,
- and of others to come well ...
Concerning the multilanguage (French, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese Brazilian currently), that functions for all the modules except for XoopsLifeType (MultiBlogs), the tags to be used are [fr ]Mon texte en français[/ fr][en ]My text in english[/ en][es]el texto en spanish[/es][it]italian[/it][pt-br]y portuguese[/pt-br].
The aim of this site is to gather a community and to discuss subjects which we cannot make on our official sites of supports.
You also can, to hold your blog on the subjects which you wish by complying with however certain rules (respect of the private life, of the religions and sex of the people...
With you to make live this site, while taking an active part and by creating your groups of friends by the means of tribes.
Why not open a blog to make share your discovery of Xoops, swap your links, your problems, your tips, your images, your musics and videos preferred, etc… as I will do it !
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