Quick Preview of XOOPS.

Nov.06, 2008 in General, Hosting Support, Linux Hosting, Linux VPS, Linux web hosting, Micfo Web Hosting, PHP and ASP.net, Web Design, Web Development, Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting

XOOPS is a abbreviation for eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Creating dynamic websites and with grand content and multiple useful features can be achieved through XOOPS. XOOPS is basically a program for administrators. Administrators make good use of XOOPS for developing dynamic community websites, no matter if the website is small or big. XOOPS is also useful for making weblogs, intra company portals, corporate portals etc. With the use of a pHp capable web server such as Apache and a database such as MySQL. XOOPS can be installed on the Internet host.

XOOPS is free to use or modify. It can also be re-distributed following the distribution terms of GPL. XOOPS is a release under GNU General Public License (GPL).

XOOPS was started as a portal system, but now it has transformed into a strong Content Management System. It is useful for small, medium or large websites framework.

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Standard XOOPS can be installed by anyone who owns personal blogs or journals. But for medium websites one needs to use modules such as News, Web Links, Forum etc. which forms a community to interact with visitors. But for larger websites a special module needs to be developed, then using XOOPS’s uniform user management system the modules can be integrated with the whole system.

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Major Features of XOOPS

1. Theme Based Skinnable Interface : It has a powerful theme system. Users and administrators are enabled to change the look of the complete website. More than 60 themes are available for download.

2. Completely Modularized : With the use of XOOPS module administration system, modules can be activated, deactivated, installed of uninstalled.

3. User Management : It is the ability to search for users using many different criteria’s send private messages and e-mails using a template based messaging system.

4. Database Driven : XOOPS is currently using MySQL as a relational database for the purpose of storage of data which is essential to run a web-based content management system.

5. Multipurpose Group Permission System : It is equipped with strong and user friendly permission system enabling administrators to set permissions by group.

6. Personalization : Registered users have various rights such as editing their profile, selecting themes etc.

7. Worldwide Support : Volunteers from all around the globe have created XOOPS, hence it has many official support websites around the world hence it can provide support for non-English users too.

Many web hosting service providers provide XOOPS hosting support on many of their packages. XOOPS is supported on Windows web hosting as well as Linux web hosting packages. It is an open source CMS (Content Management System).

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