Attaboy Designs Standard Edition
Portal Website

Overview

The Attaboy Designs Standard Edition Portal Web site is everything you need to have a polished, professional and functional website and content management solution.  The state-of-the-art Microsoft asp.NET Framework facilitates the many and extensive features that Microsoft and some of the worlds best programmers have built into this portal Web site.  These are features that are, in terms of costs, well beyond the means of a normal small business, yet they are available to you.  They are powerful, and as you will see, can be a potent tool for adding organization, efficiency, exposure, sales, prestige, and profits to your business or organization.

Implementation

Rapid Deployment
Because the code for the basic framework is already complete, tested, and is being used by thousands around the globe, you have the huge advantage of accessing this out-of-the-box technology without spending thousands of dollars.  As a result, the Attaboy Designs Portal installation can be set up just the way you like it in a very short period of time.  And furthermore, remember, the code has already been tested by thousands, so the nightmare of going through the alpha and beta debugging stages does not exist.

Easy Administration
Once your Web site has been set up, you will find it is so simple to change and/or add content that you won’t ever need to hire a Webmaster to administer your site again.  Our administrative consoles make it easy to add functions, content, images, documents and everything you need to have a successful online presence.  They will guide you effortlessly through even the most seemingly complex tasks. 

Total Content Control
As your company and site grows, it is inevitable that you will want to move your content around, change content, etc.  Attaboy Designs Portal makes this as easy as a mouse click.  Just click the edit icon, type, and click save…  It’s just that easy…

Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

With a 98% administration free architecture and a user editable interface to all of your content your TCO will be cut in half or greater.  No more paying webmasters hundreds of dollars every time you want to make a simple change to your site.  If you need to change it, just login and make the change, it’s that easy… You also don’t need to have your staff send update requests to administrators or webmasters (causing twice the work, once when the staff member sends it to the admin/webmaster, and once when they update the site with the change), grant them the rights to change the content that they are responsible for.  All your staff needs to do is login and make the change.  Now that is a lower cost of ownership.

Security

With Attaboy Designs Portal you will have a secure, reliable, and flexible solution.  Every object in the portal can have specific security settings applied to allow or deny users from seeing, editing, or administering the different parts of your site.  An example of this is the Discussion control.  You may only want registered users to add new posts to the Discussion, but it may be just fine for non-registered users to view the posts.  In this case you can grant read rights to non-registered users and read/edit rights to registered users.  Flexibility is one of Attaboy Designs Portal’s key features.

Features

If you are looking for a quick, inexpensive, and easy to maintain website, Attaboy Designs Portal Standard Edition is the site for you.  With its many out-of-the-box modules, configurations, administration control panel, and on-the-fly editing, it cannot be easier to deploy and maintain your new site. 

Just look at the many standard Modules in our Standard Edition:

Account Login
The Account Login module permits users to log in to your portal.   
 
Announcements
The Announcements Module produces a list of simple text announcements consisting of a title and brief description.   
 
Banner
Banner advertising is managed through the Admin > Vendors tab and the Host > Vendors tab. You can select the number of banners to display as well as the banner type.   
 
Blogs
Blogs is a module that allows visitors to feel at home by entering their personal experiences for others to see.
 
Contacts
Renders contact information for a group of people, for example a project team.   
 
Discussion
Renders a group of messages posted on a specific topic.   
 
Documents
Renders a list of documents, including links to browse or download the document.   
 
Events List/Calendar
Renders a list of upcoming events, including time and location. The events list can alternately be set to render in calendar format.

Forum
Forum is a much enhanced, full featured Discussion module where visitors can talk and learn from one another.
 
FAQs
FAQs allow you to manage a list of Frequently Asked Questions and their corresponding Answers.   
 
Feedback
Feedback allows visitors to send messages to the Administrator of the portal. If a user is already logged in, then their name will automatically populate the form.  

Gallery
This is where your photos and pictures are placed.  It really draws attention to your Web site.
 
IFrame
IFrame is an Internet Explorer browser feature which allows you to display content from another website within a frame on your site.   
 
Image
Renders an image. The module simply refers to the image by a relative or absolute URL, so the image file does not need to reside within the site.   
 
Links
This module renders a list of hyperlinks to any tab, image or file on your website; or to a file, image or web page on another website.   
 
Physical Map
The Map feature allows you to display a functional map image by leveraging a Map service.   
 
News Feed (RSS)
Renders news feeds on you site. News feeds provide your visitors with up-to-date, topical information on any range of topics.   
 
Search
Customized searches can be configured to search one or more of the common modules.   
 
Service Directory
The Service Directory exposes the list of Vendors maintained in the Admin tab. This module allows you to search for vendors based on key word criteria and company name.   
 
Survey
The Survey module allows your website users to complete online surveys. Survey results are rendered as a bar chart and include the number of individual responses.   
 
Text/HTML
Design content in a visual editor, or add html. Includes a picture gallery of all your uploaded images.   
 
User Accounts
The User Account module permits Registered Users to add, edit and update their User Account details. Membership services are also managed here.   
 
User Defined Table
The User Defined Table allows you to create a custom data table for managing tabular information. Note that clicking on a heading reorders the data A-Z or Z-A.   
 
Users Online
The Users Online Module displays one or all of three membership information: membership details, people online, and members online.   
 
XML/XSL
This module renders the result of an XML/XSL transform. The XML and XSL files are identified by their UNC paths in the xmlsrc and xslsrc properties of the module.