Membership website

• Project ID:

  5703

• Project Type:

  Fixed

• Budget:

  $100-$500 USD
  

Project Description:

Clone of visiongateportal.com - Also look at Rotary.org for another example of membership site with the follwoing features:
Content Management & File Protection
NEW WYSIWYG Page Publisher/Editor – Update and manage content without knowing a lick of HTML.

Quickly add new pages, update text and images, and publish content to your site as easily as typing a letter.

An easy graphic interface allows you to rapidly develop pages, manage your online images with the built-in image manager and set permissions and viewer preferences.


News Publisher – An excellent tool to share announcements of new features and content on your site with guests and members. News items include headline and published date. News can be automatically streamed into dynamic news ticker. This content can be easily integrated into your newsletter as well!


Site News Ticker – Automatically stream news content into a news ticker with automatic linking to the content page. Completely control the look and other settings from the control panel.


Article Publishing – Create a searchable, categorized listing of your articles for fast access and syndication. Feature your Newest Articles, the Most Popular Articles and allow your members to "Rate this Article". Articles can also include relevant links to additional resources. .


Discussion Forums (threaded and non-threaded) – Forums are probably the best tool you need to build your community. Use Forums to provide personal coaching, communication and information like FAQ's. Key features include creating unlimited public, private and read-only forums, fast search and sort functions, email replies and member messaging.

Integrated phpBB Forums
Manage Multiple Polls/Surveys – Gather helpful marketing and development information by using this feature. Easily create and maintain multiple polls and surveys while preventing anyone from voting twice. Accurate Results are also displayed in a graphical bar chart for quick viewing.


File, Software and ebooks Downloads (fee-based or free) – Digital files downloads can be used to generate additional profit by providing downloadable ebooks, forms, reports or software with embedded affiliate codes. It is also great for providing free bonuses as a subscription or membership incentive.

Rapid Content Development with Custom Site & Content Templates – Take publishing into your own hands with this set of flexible templates that are easily modified for your own needs. Built-in Style Sheets allow you to change the entire page look with one click.

Change your logo, section names, colors, link and text styles with the built-in template Style Editor – You can change the colors with your moods and make a completely customized website that matches perfectly from one page to the next without having to match pages slogging through tedious code.


Save time and streamline your web-content maintenance process – Manage content from any web browser with a internet connection. Allow others to have limited access to contribute or edit content.


Control Access Levels for Everything – Allows guests (unregistered members) to see some of the site and then prompt them to subscribe to get inside the member's only areas. You decide what your visitors get to see for free and what they have to pay for.


Member Management / Subscription Sales
Paid or Free Trial Subscriptions – Now you can have a trial period that automatically converts trial memberships to fully paid memberships. Allows you to offer a free subscription or a reduced fee trial membership.


PayPal, PaySystems (Revecom), and 2Checkout Integration – These payment options eliminate the need for a merchant account and charge anywhere from 2.95% to 4.95% of your recurring subscription sale with little or no monthly fees. The easiest way to enable real-time credit card sales without the risk and hassle.

3 Access Levels: Guest (unregistered), User (registered), Member (trial or paid) – You're in complete control of what your visitors can see. Create certain areas that are only for members while allowing guests or registered users limited access to certain areas. This allows you to tease your guest or registered user with premium content and entice them to become a paid subscriber.


Personalized Member Homepage – Allows members to become more involved with their membership by personalizing their homepage preferences, adding targeted news feeds and maintaining their personal profile.


Self-admin for Member Preferences and Profile – Customizable features that gives value to members and keeps them returning

Messaging between Members – A community feature that allows members to communicate with each other. Studies show that features of this type increase retention rates by adding value.


Hide or Show Member Profiles – Members can choose this option to share more information about themselves with other members.


List, edit, suspend and delete members easily – Makes it possible for you to quickly search and delete or edit members saving you time.


Registration & Password Automation
Automated Subscriber Registration – One of the most important features of a dedicated membership system is the ability to completely automate the process of member registration.


Authentication of Member's Email before First Access – Completely eliminate bogus email addresses with built-in authentication feature. Create a clean list of subscribers for further email communications and marketing.


Automated Password Retrieval – Automatically handles the #1 customer support issue for you and gives you more free time.

Password Abuse Monitoring – Assures you that thieves aren't handing out or even worse, reselling passwords to your site so you get paid for everyone that accesses your site. Suspicious Activity reports let you know exactly where the problem is.

"Remember Me" function allows users and members to return without logging in every time (1 week cookie) – Users will return more and find more value to your site when you make it easy for them to access the member's area with this function.


Flexible Site Design Control
Rapid Site Development with Customizable Template System – Take publishing into your own hands with this set of flexible templates that are easily modified for your own needs. Built-in Style Sheets allow you to change the whole page look with one click.


Customize your site look based on access level – change your navigation, advertising and look for each access level.


Change your logo, section names, colors, link and text styles with the built-in template Style Editor – You can change the colors with your moods and make a completely customized website that matches perfectly from one page to the next without having to match pages slogging through tedious code.

RSS Content Syndication & Aggregation
Website Content Syndication – Integrated one-click content syndication makes it simple for you to broadcast your content to other sites and readers to increase your site traffic, brand, public relations and sales.

Syndicated Content Publishing – A quick and easy way to add relevant content to your site. Find blogs, news feeds and other content to not only increase your site value, but also provide more content for your search engine optimization efforts.

2-Tier Affiliate Sales Manager
Two-Tier Affiliate System – Turn your community into sales evangelists by rewarding them for referring sales to your site.


Affiliate Ad-Tracking – Give your affiliates up to 255 ad-tracking codes so they can track their advertising efforts.

Categorized Resource Link Directory
Structured Categories –
Cloaked Affiliate Links –
Links are also sorted by newest and most popular

Member Suggest A Link – Get others to help build your link directory with "suggest a link" feature.

HTML / Text Newsletter Publisher
Quickly Create an Opt-in "Digest" Newsletter of Your Most Popular & Recent Content –
Automatically Publish Your Content Through Newsletters – Send a weekly or monthly opt-in update newsletter to members with a digest of your recent news and other content.
Customize Your Newsletters WithYour Own Messages – Add your own additional content (ads, message, etc) and email with a single click.

Customer Support Ticket System
Your visitors / members can create tickets via your site and reply back to the responses received from staff members.
Each ticket is assigned a unique ticket id and tracking number.
Create unlimited departments with unique email notifications.
Easy administrator monitoring.
Numbered support tickets means easy tracking via phone or web.
Ticket originator and admins can change ticket status and view reply threads
Sort / filter support tickets by department and current status.
Visual alert improves identification of tickets needing attention.
Contents of the support ticket can now be read in the notification email. Even works with most email-enabled mobile phones!

Flash or Static Banner Ad Management
Sell or manage your own web site ad campaigns.


Ads can be static gif/jpg, animated gif or Flash.


Set ads to track click-thru.

Sales Page Editor & Split Testing
Manage multiple visitors sales pages.


Edit your sales pages using the built-in WYSIWYG Editor.


Built-in Split Testing allows you to test multiple sales pages to see which one converts better.

Java Chat Option
Add Java Chat Room
Automated Digital Download Sales
File, Software and ebooks Downloads (fee-based or free) – Digital files downloads can be used to generate additional profit by providing downloadable ebooks, forms, reports or software with embedded affiliate codes.


Full-featured Forums + phpBB option
Discussion Forums (threaded and non-threaded) –

Forum Features – Key features include creating unlimited public, private and read-only forums, fast search and sort functions, email replies and member messaging.


phpBB Integration – phpBB is considered by many to be the most advanced forum software available. an option to switch from forums to phpBB forums. Members login to your site one time. They won't have to login again to access the forum like with other sites.


Sequential Autoresponders
Sequential Autoresponder Account Included – Members get a seperate autoresponder system, i-mailman, .

Image Gallery
Create Categorized Directory of images


Auto-thumbnailing and rating system built-in

Polls / Surveys
Create Polls and Surveys to find out what your members want.


See easy to understand bar-graph charts of your poll results.


Website Maintenance & Reporting
Detailed statistics show member's activity in website – Lets you see in an instant where your members go, indicating popular areas that you can expand.


3 Administration Levels (Partner, Admin & System Admin) – Allows you to be in complete control, or allows you to give certain limited control to assistants, content partners or your webmaster.


Easy to read graphical web-based display – Makes reading your stats easy without a complicated user manual or interpretation guide.


Private message posting in Admin Area – Allows ALL administrators to keep in touch and allows admin members to see important information after logging in.


Export Members Database in CSV Format – And easily upload your list to other databases.

Membership Driven Navigation
Assign a different template for each membership level.
Each membership level can have it's own navigation path.

Event Calendar
The built-in calendar allows you to remind your members about important events.

Deliverables:
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):
a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.
b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request.
3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (

Skills required:

PHP, Website Design