The demands of social networking and community sites are increasing rapidly. For building a community/networking site you need to code it from scratch. But if you are not a pro coder or you don’t have a nerd team, building a social networking website is completely impossible. So as non coder to build Social networking website you can use CMS (content management system - readymade platform what helps you to build site) also known as platform software or script. With social networking CMS you will be able to-
Build a Social networking website in a short time
It can be use for personal or commercial purpose
Customizable, so you can modify any part of site as you want
Some of these CMS are open source (completely free and you can modify/upgrade the source code) and some of paid.
Let’s see what content management systems I talking about for building Social networking website.
7 best CMS/script for building Social networking website
Dolphin is the world's most advanced community CMS. It is Open source, independent, downloadable, scalable, customizable, full-featured, free software for building social networks, dating sites and web-communities. Loaded with video chat, recorder, video player, forums, groups, events, video messenger, mailbox, desktop app, video sharing, photo sharing, iPhone app and much more. Premium upgrade available.
Jcow is flexible Social Networking software written in PHP. It can help you to: Build a social network for your interests and passions, Build a member community for your existing website, Build a social networking site like Facebook, Twitter. Paid version got more customizable option.
Buddypress is a Wordpress CMS's plugin. After installing Wordpress you will be able to install this plugin and start a minimal social networking site on your Wordpress. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team, or niche community. BuddyPress lets users sign-up and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups, and much more. BuddyPress boasts an ever growing array of new features developed by an awesome plugin development community. There are more than 330 BuddyPress plugins available, and the list is growing every day, multi language supports, updates regularly.
Oxwall is unbelievably flexible and easy to use PHP/MySQL, Community CMS/platform. Oxwall is used for a wide range of projects starting from family sites and custom social networks to collaboration tools and enterprise community solutions.
Beatz is an online social networking community script that allows you to start your own favorite artist band website. Beatz is an online community script for sharing, discussing and learning about new artists and your favorites.
Elgg empowers individuals, groups and institutions to create their own fully-featured social environment. Elgg is an open source social engine which powers all kinds of social environments - from education and business to martial arts and rugby. If you are looking for a professional social intranet or want to run a site for your organization.
Etano can be used to start up a dating site, a social networking site, a classifieds site or any other type of site involving groups of people, companies and products.
CMS are the great choice to make a site specially social networking sites, what got more sensitive functions. So choose what CMS you want to use, go to their site download the script, upload and install that, configure and start your social networking site without tension. Don’t forget to mention what you’ll be use.
Email marketing is an important option for both entrepreneurBlogger and Internet marketers. For email marketing's essential tools is email sending services. Awber, Mailchimp, Madmimi, Get response are very popular. In these email sending services Mailchimp is very good choice for no matter you are beginner or pro and of course it's free and have ability to send beautiful customized newsletters. For sending newsletter you will need to have a list what can be done by sign up form. Problem is there Mailchimp Optin/email subscription/newsletter sign up forms are very simple and looks a bit of awkward with our themes/templates, Right? So reveling you from these boring-ness with sign up form here I publishing a homemade professional looking mailchimp sign up/subscription form. It's easy to configure and flat designed and it will easily match with any blogsites/websites. Let's see how it looks like and how to add it to your Blogger blog and wordpress sites and how to configure.
Professional Mailchimp Sign-up/Opt-in Form for Wordpress/Blogger
Then drag and drop 'Text' content box in widget area,
Copy following codes and paste into 'text' box,
For new dashboard click on 'Text' add it to sidebar
And paste following codes and configure
How to configure Configuring this form won't take a while, read on-
First log in to your mailchimp account,
Select 'List' from side menu,
Inside 'List' on your email subscriber list's very right part after 'stats'
Click on dropdown menu, select, 'Sign up forms' from there.
Then Select 'Embedded forms'.
When you are into 'Embedded forms'
From Classic sign up forms page's botton contains sign up forms HTMLcode,
Copy all code and paste them on any txt file/word file (notepad)
And select the following link what shown as image and replace the link with my default link (pink colored).
Save your widget/gadget and take a look at your site, How it looking on your site, how it working or any trouble please leave with comment. More cool Mailchimp subscription form will release soon stay subscribed, Happy Email marketing :)
Without backlink running a website is worthless and pointless. Building backlink/link building for your website/blogsite there are a lot of source you can use. Submit your website link to several web directories is also a good source for getting good and strong backlinks. There are a lot of web directory I have found around the web, they offer's free and paid web directory service. Going through most of them here I sharing 60 best free web directory for building backlinks. Here some directories works instantly without any condition, some of 'em requires link exchange and some will review your site first (they will track your site's popularity and content quality, than will add you site to their directory). Read on the -
Shareaholic is one of the most used all in one content sharing platform (like Addthis, Sharethis). The difference with other sharing platform of Shareaholic is;
Shareaholic has much cooler icons (Eye catchy, trendy and stylish)
Very customizable (Position, Icon size, Layout, Align, Headline)
Analytic, Fast loading, Responsive, and optional monetization option
Adding Shareaholic Sharing widgets in Blogger blog is easy, for your consideration setup process of adding Shareaholic widgets into Blogger blogs written below, read on-
Add Shareaholic Share button & bar to Blogger blog/below posts
Hit (Add Website) from Website Tools Dashboard page
Insert your BlogSpot Domain name and site name
Select platform ‘Blogger’, Content category, site Language, Hit continue
Next page you’ll see ‘Apps’ option, Turn on ‘Floating Share Buttons’, Click on ‘Setting’ icon
Now in ‘Layout’ fix Size, Counter, Align, Vertical offset, and services,
Additionally click on ‘Display rules’, Hit Save Settings
Now you’ll return to the Dashboard page, Get your mouse over ‘Location’ option
Select ‘Share Buttons’, In share button page, in Location input type ‘Below post’
Select your Theme, Headline, Position, Layout, Counter, Align and services
After all configurations complete, select ‘Save settings’,
You’ll redirect to Dashboard page, now click on ‘Get setup code’ and
Log into your Blogger blog on the other tab, select your blog
Go to ‘Template’ tab, and select ‘Edit HTML’
Search for </head> (using CTRL+F or CMD+F) into code snippet
Before </head> tag, paste ‘Get setup code’s codes
Again, Get back to Shareaholic tab, from location configuration, click on ‘</> icon’
And copy all codes from pop-up page
And from Blogger’s tab (into code snippet) search for,
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
You may find this code phrase twice, ignore first phrase, after second phrase paste those codes,
You may add these codes too, with default codes cause default codes widget will appear on homepage too, re-edit the default code with this codes, like this-
If you can’t find <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'> than search for </article>, and paste codes below </article>
Save Template finally, And check your blog out for live preview
Content sharing widgets are very necessary tool for a blogsite, so share your content with style with Shareaholic sharing efforts make your Blogger blog little bit stylish and trendy. Any problem facing with tutorial leave with comments, new tutorial will release soon stay subscribed. Chill…..
Copy paste's day is over, search engine's unique content search system finds plagiarism automatically and charge copy paster's for not to having unique content on site and also deploy duplicate content issue what is a big SEO factor now days. Plus if you use stolen text to use those on your site you also will get Dmca,Copyscape, Creative Commons and other content protecting law and policy warning and charge. Also for holding site's readers eyes and mind on your site content spinning article can be use for present a article more charming with rich vocabulary and thesaurus. And batch producing a lot of article in short time from already someone's published article, article rewriter can be a helpful easy way for you or your client. There is lot of free article rewriter/spinner online web tool and offline desktop application you can find for spinning your articles for free. After testing most of these tools, I made a final list. Now from the best article rewriter list you choose one of them and get started without hesitation. Read on :-
This article rewriter tool will scan through your content for words that can be replaced with a synonym. All words that have been replaced with an alternate option will be highlighted in bold and colorful text. You can click on that word to revert to the original, find other suggested words, or add your own. added over 500,000 new synonyms to improve the end value of this article rewriter; with the purpose of improving articles by providing better words or phrases.
2. Ant Spinner Writing effective content for your site can now be simply done through the use of this article spinner. An article spinner tool can make rewrite articles easy and fast all for free. You can simply make content full of match keyword phrases that could also raise traffic in your website.
3. Caligonia There are many articles on content spinners on the market; some of these articles are useless while others actually attempt to inform you of how powerful article rewriters are, but Caligonia is different It's a human controlled article spinner what prevents output articles to having controlled use of thesaurus and synonyms, what makes a article more human readable and useful.
4. Paraphrasing Tool Use Paraphrasing Tool to paraphrase or rewrite full length essays and articles or to find new ways to express simple phrases, sentences or single words. Whether your goal is to remix textual content for a website, term paper, business document, email or tweet, Paraphrasing Tool will do the trick.
5. Ez rewriter Free online article rewriter. Paste or type your text and rewrite words with synonyms.
6. Free article spinner Free and paid article rewriter. Be a member of site and get your rewriter screen.
8. Plagiarisma Plagiarisma is a free article spinner, online synonymizer, eassy rewriter, plagiarism and grammar checker
9. Article changer It says world's best free article spinner tool what produce mostly human readable output.
10. Spin bot Article spinning, text rewriting and creative content creation tool. Using it you'll quickly get human readership and search engine exposure
11. Content professor Content professor is a free and paid article spinner, A smart, easy and guaranteed way to rewrite articles online
12. Word flood It's a desktop app and free for use. Unique, powerful and super fast desktop app designed to help creative article marketers and professional content marketer’s
So these article rewrites are the best rewriting tools to work on for free. Use them and change your conventional article to shiny penny. Any tool you recommend or have a feedback about my list leave with comment. Happy article spinning :)
CSS3 took web design to its most wanted attractive step. Using CSS3 effects on websites elements (text, images) makes our site look gorgeous and trendy. With this site I try to publish various CSS3 effects (base Button, Image effect) what you can use on your web project and Blogger blogs easily. To continue that here another super cool effect I presenting. It will give your image Swing effect on mouse hover. Made with CSS3 transform animation and keyframes to design the swinging pattern, it also cross browser supports. Let’s see how it looks like and how to enable it on your image of Blogger.
The usefulness of using Captcha on your site is so to speak. Most important some reason stands for your website’s security. Like-
Preventing spam bots (The bots what leaves/posts spam links as a comment or message automatically)
It does brute force protection (Login, account hacks)
Preventing Harmful data collector bots (Those automated programs collecting certain types of sensitive information, like-email, password)
Cookie base bots (Bots what examine cookies for their good, like-advertise serve)
Prevents DDOS attacks (The bots what assist with massive downloading of content from multimedia websites, and make server down)
And so on.
And if you use Wordpress you can get rid of these security problems with just installing a Captcha plugin. There are a lot’s of Captcha plugin you may find in wordpress plugin depositary. But I did some check and writing here 6 best Captcha plugin for wordpress based on there popularity, styling over all worth to have performance. So read on-
Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all. In order to post comments or register, users will have to type in the code shown on the image.
Configure from Admin panel
Valid HTML
Section 508 and WAI Accessibility Validation.
Allows Trackbacks and Pingbacks.
Setting to hide the Captcha from logged in users and or admins
Setting to show the Captcha on the forms for comments, registration, lost password, login, or all.
The Captcha plugin allows you to implement a super security captcha form into web forms. It protects your website from spam by means of math logic, easily understood by human beings.
Three basic maths actions - add, subtract and multiply.
This captcha can be used for login, registration, password recovery, comments forms.
There is also a premium version of the plugin, allowing compatibility with BuddyPress (Registration form, Comments form, "Create a Group" form and Contact Form 7
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that protects your site against spam, malicious registrations and other forms of attacks where computers try to disguise themselves as a human.
reCAPTCHA comes in the form of a widget that you can easily add to your blog, forum, registration form, etc.
In addition to protecting your site, reCAPTCHA also helps us digitize old books and newspapers, transcribe street numbers and solve hard AI problems
PlusCaptcha - Forget the spam, ugly and complicated captchas. The Easiest Captcha to Setup and Execute, with Auto-Setup Feature. An evolution of the protection from bots and people without good intentions. Simple to install, simple to use, security at a click distance
Simple to setup, Automatic account generation
Size, color, difficulty personalization.
Popular All Browsers Support
Integrated Form (with shortcode), Comment form, Login form, Lost password form
Stop spam and bots with PlayThru, the fun, free CAPTCHA alternative! CAPTCHAs infuriate users, increase drop-off, and ruin your site's user experience. PlayThru is the simple game-based CAPTCHA replacement that people love. It's easy to install and completely free.
This plugin works effortlessly on comment, registration, and lost password forms, and is compatible with BuddyPress, Gravity Forms, and Contact Form 7
CAPTCHA-related dropoff is five times higher on mobile than on desktop,
The PlayThru spam blocker is optimized for touch, so it works beautifully on mobile device
Really Simple CAPTCHA does not work alone and is intended to work with other plugins.
It is originally created for Contact Form 7, however, you can use it with your own plugin.
Also it is not strongly secure.
As you already knew why Captcha using so necessary. So use a Captcha plugin from above and increase your wordpress blog's security. Don't forget to mention what you use or gonna use :)