Soholaunch Web Hosting

Soholaunch Web Hosting

The Soholaunch Pro Edition is an all inclusive software product that offers the essential tools required to easily create and efficiently manage their websites. People of all experience levels can easily use this tool and it does not require any high levels of technical expertise. The software can get the website up and running in minutes and helps the user in every step to grow his/her website; from a few basic content pages to web blogs, event calendars, email newsletters, member logins, online shopping and much more. It features advanced features and flexible tools all in one neatly designed package – bunch independantly-powerful website tools designed together to work together and is extremely user friendly.

The Soholaunch Pro Edition can be used by the small business owners, web developers as well as by web hosts. There are two ways to get Soholaunch Pro Edition installed on the website:
1. Auto-install via the control panel: These control panels include a built-in auto-installer for Soholaunch Pro Edition.:

• Fantastico (cPanel)
• Installatron (cPanel, Plesk)
• 4psa (Plesk)
• CP Skins (cPanel)
• Helm – The Webhosting Control System

2. Download the free auto-installer: The auto-installer will install the latest version of Soholaunch Pro Edition on the user’s website. For a period of 15 days; the full-version features will be turned on. After the full version trail period expires; the user gets to use the ProBase features for free or they have the option to purchase a full version license and continue to access the complete advanced features.

The software’s key features include:

• A QuickStart wizard.
• Templates: Over 100 template designs; filter by 20 different categories (Art, Business, Neutral etc.)
• Page Editing and File Management: Choose from pre-installed templates, Copy and paste text and formatting from Microsoft Word documents, Create tables for layouts and charts with borders and background colors, Create multi-level lists with auto-numbering, bullet points, and indentions, Control alignment of text, images, tables, and other objects, Link text and images to pages, files, email addresses, and other websites, visually separate sections of content with horizontal dividers, Wrap paragraphs and text around images and tables and Change font types, colors, sizes, and styles.

Drag-and-drop advanced features onto the pages:

• Linked images
• Text content
• Online Forms
• Documents and PDF files
• MOV, .MPG, and .AVI video files
• Automatic date stamps
• Printable page view links
• Hit Counters
• Maps and directions
• WAV and .MP3 audio files
• PlugIn links with icons
• Shopping Cart promotions
• Photo albums with links
• PopUp Windows

Website Navigation Menus:

1. Easy management of menu items
2. Show menu items as buttons or text-only links
3. Easily add pages to the menu either as regular main page links or as sub-page links below a main page
4. Add, reorder, or remove a menu item with a single click.
5. Turn on/off a small text-only version of your site’s menu system that appears at the bottom (footer) of your website.
6. Edit the color scheme for your menu buttons
7. Keep pages off the menu while you’re working on them
8. Web designers/developers: create exactly the menu layout you desire and allow the customers to manage it.

Web Form Builder:

1. Forms manager: Create a new form, edit one of your saved forms, delete one of your saved forms and preview your saved forms.

Add/Edit Fields:

• Add, modify, remove, and reorder the fields whenever you want
• All the standard field types like text boxes, drop-down menus, radio/checkbox option groups, and comment boxes are available.
• Add File Upload so visitors can send files.
• Special behavior options for each field type (whether a field should be required, which check box in a set should be checked by default etc.)
• Control styles for each individual field (whether label should be displayed next to or above field, whether to list radio options vertically or horizontally etc).

Form Styles:

• Form Body styles – Set width, border, padding, margin, and background color of the form itself.
• Field Label styles- Control the font, style, position, and alignment of your field labels.
• Submit Button styles- Choose how exactly should the submit button look like.

Drag-and-drop the forms onto site pages:

• Email the visitor’s data to one or more email address
• Store the visitor’s info in a data table that you can download and import as a spreadsheet
• Redirect site visitor to a “Thank You page” of your choosing after they submit the form.
• Send visitors a response right away with a custom auto-reply message
• Generic ‘contact us’ and ‘newsletter signup’ forms also come pre-installed to get the user started.

Site Characters: SitePal is a web-based subscription service that allows small business owners to easily create animated speaking characters for their websites:

• Option of designing and customizing the chosen characters including hair, color, clothing and accessories.
• options of recording voice: by phone, microphone, text to speech or upload an audio file. · Option to drag and drop SitePal character into the Soholaunch powered website.

Photo Album features:

• Allows easy creation and management of slide-show type photo albums with captions.
• Create an unlimited number of separate Photo Albums
• Place up to 20 pictures in each album
• Easily make changes to existing albums
• Annotate each image with captions
• Link each image to other sites or full-size images
• Drag-and-drop albums onto site pages

Web Blogs:

• Create unlimited Web Blogs to cover a infinite range of topics
• Create unlimited Web Blogs to cover a infinite range of topics
• Enhance your Blog with links, images, tables, bullet lists, and text formatting
• Enhance your Blog with links, images, tables, bullet lists, and text formatting
• All entries filed in Blog Archives automatically
• Drag-and-drop Web Blogs onto site pages.

eMail Newsletters: Select your desired newsletter by building it in the page editor and send to specified customers or users:

• Choose from pre-installed templates
• Create, send, and manage unlimited text and html campaigns
• Design dynamic eNewsletters in the Page Editor
• Populate send-to list with any data table
• Create personalized greetings for thousands of subscribers automatically
• Send eNewsletters to Shopping Cart customers
• Include site pages, Shopping Cart items, Event Calendars, and Web Blogs eNewsletter campaigns
• Unsubscribe email addresses manually or automatically

Event Calendars: This module makes it easy to create and manage interactive event calendars for your website:

• Create unlimited searchable event calendars, organized into categories
• Allow site visitors to submit events to calendars they have access to
• Allow registered Secure Users to create and maintain private event calendars
• Describe events with titles, short descriptions, and detail pages
• Create individual and recurring events
• Include site pages, Shopping Cart items, Event Calendars, and Web Blogs eNewsletter campaigns
• Unsubscribe email addresses manually or automatically

Shopping Cart: Used to develop and manage all kinds of online stores ranging from small to big scale as well as more complex ones:

• Configure product categories, shipping methods, tax rates, payment options, exchange policies, and much more without typing out any codes whatsoever.
• Add an unlimited number of items to your eCommerce store
• Define keywords for product searches
• Assign thumbnail and full size product images
• Specify price variations for different product-specific options
• Create descriptions and detail pages
• Require form data when item is purchased
• Promote with related items and accessories at checkout

Plugins to enhance feature functionality: Only available in the full version of Pro Edition.
Member log-ins (Secure Users Feature Overview):

• Restrict access to virtually anything: Site Templates, Shopping Cart products and categories, Event Calendars, and all features therein
• Organize users into groups with different “clearance levels”
• Create an unlimited number of secure users and groups
• Batch authenticate thousands of users at once with Database Table Manager
• Give users access to multiple clearance levels on an individual basis
• Issue members and clients a “VIP pass” to your website
• Grant Secure Users access to special areas of your site
• Billing and shipping data can be automatically “remembered” when Secure Users make Shopping Cart purchases
• Allow Secure Users to manage their own information through your website
• Create custom searches for rosters, member directories, etc, that allow users to edit their personal data when viewing their own record in the search results
• Provide secure users with personal Events Calendar that they can maintain

DB tables: (Database Table Manager): Easily create robust, database-driven features for websites:

• Create and delete user database tables
• Add, delete, and modify individual records
• Rename, delete, and add fields to your data tables
• Batch authenticate thousands of secures users in only a few clicks
• Create custom searches for rosters, member directories, etc, that allow secure users to edit their personal data when viewing their own record.
• Download data tables in .csv format and modify them as spreadsheets
• Import .csv data from spreadsheets (i.e. Excel) into shopping cart, secure user, and other system data tables
• Add and update thousands of Shopping Cart products in less than one minute.

Backup/Restore

• Preserve your website at different stages of development
• Fully restore your website to a previous state in seconds.
• Add a title and notes to each backup for easy identification later
• Download site backups to your local computer
• Upload and import backup files in a single click

Site Traffic Statistics:

• Views by hour: Shows total hits per hour over an entire month, When to expect sales (high-traffic time) and when to make changes (low-traffic time).
• Unique Visitor Trends: Total page views, visit frequency, average pages per visit, compare traffic to previous months.
• Top 25 pages: List of all site pages ranked by hit count,
• Rank, page name, and number of hits displayed for each page
• Examine which pages need attention.
• Views by day: Bar graphs for each month, total page views for month, height of bar represents number of hits, gauge response to special announcements, marketing campaigns, etc.
• Referrer sites: Find out who’s linking you, list of sites that have referred visitors to your site, sites listed by month, ranked by number of visitors sent to your website.

Browser:

• Percentage of visitors browsing your website with Internet Explorer
• Percentage of visitors using a different browser like FireFox/Mozilla
• Percentage of visitors running a PC powered by MS Windows
• Percentage of visitors running something other than an IBM-compatible PC with Windows (i.e. Mac with OS).

Search Engines:

• Give the website a site-wide title, description, and keywords
• List of all site pages ranked by hit count
• Rank, page name, and number of hits displayed for each pages
• Capture more targeted visitors by giving each page a unique title, description, and keywords with a more narrow focus than your site-wide title, description, and keywords.