About myArtCafe.org

myArtCafe.org is a new generation art portal related to digital graphics. It is a social learning site for creatives, designed to help you discover the most interesting articles of the day, as voted and suggested by your fellow users. With over 2000+ tutorials, separated in 10 categories, it is the best place to increase your knowledge in the field of graphic design. The statistics will help you find the most useful information. You will spend your leisure time in the best possible way. There is a community where you can find new cool people and make friendships, moreover, can help each other about art related questions. You can share your opinion for different tasks. Furthermore, in myArtCafe.org each member can create blogs for expressing himself and writing about topics he is interested in. One of the most beautiful things in the site is the art gallery where everybody can spend a great time with the tones of impressive photos. And this is not all! You need to bookmark something or to leave a note? Or just find some fun? The Ajax StartPage is deisgned to be your guide in the world of digital art.
Features:
1.Home page
a)Header (Logo, topmenu and a search box) Links:
- Community
- Live
- Blog
- Gallery
- StartPage
b)Sidebar
- Site news (Shows the latest news about the site)
- Welcome! (Quick intro about the site and a link to this page)
- Top Stories (The most voted stories)
- Login (The community login)
- Community (This table show the latest content in the community)
- Top 10 Tags
- Quick Stats (Site statistics)
- RSS Feeds
c)Preview (Categories and a flash slideshow)
- Site categories
- Slideshow with featured topics
d)Body (Shows the tutorials)
2.Community (myArtCafe network consists of 1 friends (people a member knows), 2 friends (friends of the member's friends), and 3 friends (people who know friends of the member's friends). A member's personal network on myArtCafe will connect with people as far as 4 away. The larger the personal network becomes, the more useful and fun it will be and members will have access to more listings, messages, Groups and events.)
a)General Member Features
- Members can create their unique username during registration for their personal profile URL (eg, yoursite.com/friends?username)
- Ability to edit personal profile, upload photos to the photo albums, change account settings and many more!
- NEW Security image code during registration to prevent automated signups
- Display site statistics including total members in the social networking site and number of members who are online
- Ability to upgrade membership plans using paypal payments
- Recurring billing for paid membership plans and member can view transactions by date range and next billing period
- Members can see who has view their profiles
- Member voting system
- 5 most recently updated member profiles will be listed on main page
- Members can edit and customize their profile layout [Demo]
- Members can upload multimedia content in their profile which can be broadcast through online windows streaming
- Allow members to cancel their account
- NEW Members can upload multiple photos to their account
- Members can create a member ignore list
- Ability to bookmark a Group, listing or a member
- Write a testimonial for a friend
- Email notification which will send an email to the member when there is a new action to be taken (i.e invitations, new friend request, new testimonial and more)
- NEW Members can now view who rated them
- View History - Members are able to view the history of member profiles or groups they have visited.
b)Messages
- Compose new messages just like any ordinary emails and send them to the member's network of friends
- View inbox/sent/saved messages
- Bulletin Board: Bulletin board messages created by a member will be broadcast to al friends
c)Search
- Search for new friends and increase the member's network of friends
- Basic Search: search by first name, last name, email, distance and degrees
- Advance Search: enhance search functions where members can search for friends by age, schools, gender, occupation, interest, company and many more! Members have the ability to display only friends with photos and sort search results.
d)Listings
- Members can create listings which will be posting in the Listings Directory
- Members can select the category where their listings will be posted and have the ability to upload photos, select the period of the listing (up to 30 days), make the listing anonymous. Members also have the ability to publish a listing to their groups (which only group members can view) or selected network of friends
- Ability to search listings by keywords, category and subcategory, distance and degrees
- Members can notify friends through email about their new listings
e)Groups
- Groups draw together individuals who share a common interest. These groups can be focused on any subject, affiliation, or activity. Book clubs, soccer teams, and alumni groups can form their own Groups, as well as family members, hobbyists, or professionals
- Members can create groups which will be listed in Groups Directory
- Group Events - Members can create a group event
- Discussion Board - Enable members to post messages in a group
- File sharing system
- Manage Group - This feature allows a member to manage the group type (public, moderated or private) and change other settings such as group URL, title, description and category
- View the most popular and newest groups in the directory
- Ability to search for groups by keywords
f)Invite
- Member can invite friends to join their network
- Support for multiple invitation
- Members can view the invitations they have sent to their friends and its status (whether their friends have signed up)
- Member can now use tags to display either normal invite or affiliate URL
g)Blog
- Members can start their own online blog with a unique blog URL
- Blog search function
- Ability to create blog categories
- Ability to edit/delete blog entires
- Allows customization of blog layout such as custom header/css, background settings including music/image, blog font, color, time format
- Built-in HTML editor for blog entries
- RSS 2.0 support
h)NEW Articles
- Members can post articles for fellow members to read
- Built-in WYSIWYG editor for article posting and members can upload an image for each article
- Members can leave a comment on each article
- Ability to search for articles by keywords and date published
i)Forums
- Members can view all topics and forum stats (number of post/ topics and last post)
- Member can search for forum posts
- Members can now be set as forum moderators by admin and have additional privileges to edit/delete existing postings
- Ability to create new forum topics and post replies
j)Events
- Ability to browse event categories
- Members can search for an event by keywords, category, dates degrees and distance.
- Ability to create new public/private events
- Event creator can specify the max number of guests each member can bring and allow comments by members
- Built-in RSVP for each event: participating members can reply with yes/no/maybe and specify number of guest they are bringing
- Event creator can invite friends in existing network or enter the email addresses for non-members to join event
- Members can now add events to their calendar
- NEW Event creator can export guest list in excel. The details include name, username, number of guest attending, status, ticket ID
- Option for generating a unique ticket ID for attendees
- NEW Event creator can have the option to charge members a fee for attending their event. The profits will be credited to the member's account
- NEW Event creator can also have option to allow attendees to print ticket after payment [view screenshot]
- NEW Event creator can set the event created as "Featured" and admin can set the amount for the featured listing fee
- NEW Unique event URL (i.e yoursite.com/friends/events/?username)
- NEW Members now have the option to view events posted by them as well as events they are attending
k)Chat
- Ability to chat with other members
- Members can select chat rooms to talk to other members
- Members can send private message or chat invitation to selected members
- Ability to configure chat rooms (set display layout and sound controls)
l)Calendar
- Members can have their own personal online calendar
- Ability to view/add new events
m)Instant Messenger
- Members can send/reply IM to friends and view who is online
- NEW Members can block friends
- NEW Ability to view recent chats
- NEW Configure advance IM settings such as auto-accept IM request, set time zone and select language preference
n)HotorNot
- Image rating system where images of members are randomly displayed
- Show top 25 men and women
- Show most rated men and women
- Show men and women by age
o)Affiliate Program
- Unique affiliate link for each member
- Support for Tier 1 and tier 2
- Support for recurring commissions
- Displays affiliate account stats overview
- Shows affiliate commission details including amount earn and date
- Members can withdraw affiliate earnings via paypal
3.Blog (This is where all the news about the site are published)
4.Live (Here you can view at real time all story actions)
5.Gallery (A flash gallery with beautiful pictures)
6.StartPage (StartPage Enterprise is a multi-lingual Ajax-based personalized start page. It is organized into tabs, with each tab containing user-defined widgets including RSS reader, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, bookmarks, email reader and more!)
a)User Features
- Drag and drop interface
- Option to change the number of columns
- Ability to create/edit/delete page tabs
- User have the ability to customize their personal desktop startpage by selecting themes
- Set background image
- Ability to modify member profile
- Retrieve password during login
- Ability to select language
- Set custom title for member's desktop page
- Ability to create multi-pages by creating new tabs
- Custom Widgets
b)What users can do ?
- Read POP/Yahoo/Gmail/AOL emails all at once without having to login into 4 different accounts. StartPage Enterprise will auto-save your email login information. All its takes is one common login to your StartPage Enterprise account
- Take down important notes and retrieve it from anywhere with a web browser
- All your daily dose of news feeds can now be displayed via our online RSS reader widget in one page
- Our weather forecast widget instantly shows the weather information of your preferred location
- Select your search engine and enter the search phrase to retrieve search results
- And many more...