Thanks for your continued presence on our blog, please note that we are continously calling for articles from members to hep us build a solid online presence that will serve all.

Now getting straight to business as usual, we would like to introduce you to some good virtuemart modules that would help enhance your shop. Please note that there are so many open source ecommerce platforms out there but if you are somebody that uses joomla virtuemart, please take a look at these two modules.

1. VIRTUEMART PRODUCT SLIDESHOW: This module helps give your product display that bright and animated touch that would attract a visitors attention. It can be customised and postioned anywhere. Putting it at the top is always the best. This is non-commercial.

2. MAGIC ZOOM VIRTUEMART COMPONENT: This component helps visitors and customers to zoom out a product image as a clear bigger image  by placing the mouse on the image itself . This would help to enhance the look of your products. This is commercial.

It is advisable tp present product images in white backgrounds. Please contact MDS if you would like to set up a store online.

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Hello all, sorry i haven’t really blogged on scripts for a long time , please accept my apology and let’s start again by me introducing you to PHPMOTION video script, this is a completely free open source video blogging script, not only that it can take images, audios etc . The only problem with this script is just the fact that it requires a little bit more money to pay for the hosting because of the server requirements , it is best run on a VPS or  dedicated server anyway.

Recently i tested it for a client for the first time and i am really impressed and as usual over the coming weeks, a lot would be written up on phpmotion free video script on this blog.

Please read an extract from the site below.

“PHPmotion Media Sharing CMS – PHPmotion is a free video sharing software that also has support for other types of media such as audio/mp3 sharing. The Content Managent System or (media cms application) will allow you to create and run your very own Video Sharing website, Music Sharing Site, Picture Sharing Site. With very little knowledge required you can now have a website just like youtube.com , dailymotion.com, veoh, hi5 and best of all, its 100% free to download and use.”

Free Video Script

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I have just installed Hesk helpdesk software on our support center to help support our clients. This is a very good script and the support is great. It has both rapid admin and forum support. Read from Hesk website below.

HESK is free PHP Help Desk Software that runs with MySQL, allowing you to quickly and easily set up a Web—based ticket support system for your Web site.

Install HESK for your Web site, so your customers can quickly and easily submit support tickets. This will also let your staff benefit from an easy-to-use Web interface to help you better manage customer support requests.

You’ll love HESK—users say they like this script because it is so easy to use, simple, secure and a FREE alternative to commercial (read $200+) Help Desk Software. Use HESK’s simple-to-install script that takes care of your database setup and lets you get your help desk up and running quickly and with very little effort.

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This is one of the best free membership scripts on the net, it gives you the room to customize it yourself as you would need to have some degree of knowledge on how to edit files.

Phpautomembersarea comes with an easy installer that does the job automatically for you,  you would be surprised at how easy this can go.

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Hello All,

Sorry for not updating this blog since december 2009 but i would like to use this opportunity to thank you all for the support and wishing you all a happy new year. Also recently we had a broken link problem with our blog but we are now back and this year you would enjoy this blog.

Now recently i have been trying to use up some membership scripts  and i have come across a few good free ones and would be blogging them for now. If you own a website that you would like to extend into site membership for your users, there are couple of them that would do the job but my advice is to try them out one by one.

Locked Area is one of the most popular that runs on perl and has options of mysql. To be frank i installed this and ran into some problems but i’m sure it was my lack of concentration on the installation process as the script is a proven script but try and see if you can use it yourself and we will be happy to read your comments here.

Locked Area Membership script

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For no particular reason , i have intentionally ignored exploring Drupal, But recently i have taken a look at it and found that this is one of the best content management system on the internet, and well extended also. I believe over the coming days and weeks, a lot would be written on Drupal in this blog but for the meantime please find time to visit Drupal and explore it. If you love wordpress and Joomla, you would love Drupal.

DRUPAL

Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform.

Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.

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The Civicrm is dedicated to people who would like to put their non governmental orgainizations online, This script is so powerful that you cannot imagine the features it has to offer. This script had been developed as a standalone, or as compnents to be integrated into Drupal or Joomla.

Infact right now i’m currently integrating it with joomla for a client putting his NGO online.

Please read the extract from civicrm below.

CIVICRM

The Open Source Solution for the Civic Sector

CiviCRM is an open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, open source, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. Integration with both Drupal and Joomla! content management systems gives you the tools to connect, communicate and activate your supporters and constituents.

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IP.Board is one of the best places to turn to when looking for commercial community scripts. Please read from the site below.

IP.Board has been helping site owners foster engaging discussion for years, so we’ve taken the proven core of our community platform, and tweaked, extended, improved and polished it to bring you version 3.

Drive user interaction with new features like Reputation and Personal Conversations, and streamline dealing with troublemakers with features like the Report Center. IP.Board 3 helps you create awareness, positive discussion and empowered users, and can help reduce staffing costs by enabling user-to-user support interactions.

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