PostNuke Web Hosting

PostNuke Web Hosting

PostNuke is a free, open source CMS (Content Management System) and is released under the GNU General Public License. It offers a flexible and powerful structure required for an interactive and editable website. This highly dependable, robust and reliable system offers everything to its users to manage their internet and intranet needs efficiently and effectively.

Minimal HTML knowledge is needed and users are able to create dynamic websites; with effective and easy to use administration tools. Easy installation of modules, themes and blocks enhances the functionality of the system. These could include additions like forums, galleries or contact forms etc; the possibilities are endless. The process is fairly simple and free from any complexities. With the user friendly administration panel, users or administrators can easily create and maintain their websites. The system caters to diverse requirements ranging from traditional blog websites; personal websites for friends and families to community members’ only websites.

PostNuke is constantly evolving and growing with new features being added at frequent intervals. Currently, additional features are being constantly added, the core code is stabilizing and documentation and support is being enhanced with the forthcoming release of the 1.0 version. The download process is quite simple and once installed; the websites can be up and running within a matter of minutes. For the system to run smoothly; following requirements are mentioned below:
PHP – version 4.1.0 or above. (PostNuke is PHP5 Compatible and can be run with safe_mode on).
MySQL – version 4.1 or above.
Recommendation: “Free Apache Webserver”; although this is not a requirement, it would help users to take advantage of the PostNuke ShortURLs technology; in order to make their website URLs more readable.
The system comes with robust and utilizable features; making it highly flexible and reliable for users. Some of its key features include:

• Easy, step-by-step graphical installer
• Web-based administration panel, eliminating the need for FTP access for day to day site management
• User registration and permissions system, giving webmasters the ability to manage user access to content and features
• It is completely extensible through additional modules
• Strong user community providing many third party modules/themes to further extend the core features
• Support for fully HTML templated modules, offering further flexibility to webmasters to modify or change content display through simple HTML and this does not necessarily require the modification of the application code.
• With the user-friendly and flexible theme-system, webmasters can choose and control the look and feel of their websites. All the website content can be created and arranged by simply changing the HTML code.
• Built in caching increases the speed of the web site
• It is completely HTML compliant to W3C guidelines, and Bobby accessibility enables a consistent display of the websites across systems, facilitating disabled users to get most of the user’s website. It also provides for the standards of the future in all output sent to user’s browsers.
• It offers the “short URL support technology” which means a shortened version of the URL is created for output to a visitor’s browser making it easy and convenient as well as aids in enhancing the search engine rankings.
• Upgrades are fairly simple and require just a few clicks; so users can get the most from the latest releases that come with enhanced features.
• Multilingual support is offered through an official project and various translations are also made available from the NOC.
• The Permissions control system; webmasters can easily customize the user experience. With this system, webmasters can allow certain members access to add downloads or create a subscriber based website that gives added functionality to subscribers.
• Mail Configuration module, meaning PostNuke sites can use external SMTP servers for sending mail.
• WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get Editor) is available for download as a core module, and the others can be integrated seamlessly into PostNuke as modules.
• With just a few clicks, a statistics report can be easily generated of all related data.
• AvantGo gives users the ability to read site news on the Personal Digital Assistants (works with the news module)
• Autolinks automatically link keywords to a predefined URL.
• Any offending terms are replaced by censor asterisks (*).
• Credits automatically list the credits for the functionality that are installed.
• Downloads a download repository, with ability for users to submit downloads.
• The FAQ section offers a valuable information base of Frequently Asked Questions about the website.
• The legal generic legal documents are adaptable to the user’ situation.
• The Members list contains all the registered members on the website.
• The Private messages offer an internal messaging system between users.
• News ability to publish News articles, users can also submit articles for approval.
• Administration Messages displays messages to specific groups on the web master’s website.
• The Banners module; allows banners to display with impression and click counts, and logins for clients.
• Comments add comments functionality to news articles.
• Ephemerids ‘This day in history…’ module.
• The Poll survey feature is also available for website users.
• Quotes display famous quotes, or testimonials from users.
• “Ratings” feature enables ratings on anything related to the website.
• He “Recommend Us” feature allows users to recommend the website to other website visitors.
• With the Reviews feature, users can review anything by submitting their reviews.
• Built in search provides users with the ability to search the website for a specified word or phrase.
• “Sections”displays static HTML content on the website.
• Top List/What’s Hot provides a listing of the most popular content on the website
• The Calendar which is integrated into PostNuke allows a display of upcoming events.
• Web Links is a Yahoo style directory where users can submit and rate useful links.

The third party community is an essential and vital key strength of the project as it ensures the download and access to a variety of professional modules; which could include forums, galleries etc. Interesting and high quality themes are also integrated into the system; further enhancing its functionality and utilization. All of PostNuke’s extensions are available in the extensions database at http://community.postnuke.com.