Civilution LLC

Oh, we got both kinds: country and western!
           -Claire, The Blues Brothers

What Civilution Has to Offer
In addition to the traditional OpenACS platform (with discussion forums, shared calendars, group news and announcements), we have developed a number of new components for our customers. Call us for source code or a demonstration.

Civ-Forms
Civ-Forms lets you create and manage a structured and searchable library of virtual documents, each with configurable fields for dates, words, names, photos and attached files. For instance, you would start an image database by configuring a new "photo" form with fields for an attached picture file (file), its description (text), the photographer's name (text), and the day it was taken (date).

I library of "employee" forms could each have a name (text), a job title (text), a resume (file), birthday and start dates (date), and links to other form types like "contracts," "performance reviews," and "awards."

Civ-Form's special strength is that it not only lets you add or remove fields on a virtual form on the fly, but it also reflects those changes on filled-forms already in the library.

You can also restrict the reading and writing of certain forms to particular groups of users.

Civ-Ratings
With Civ-Ratings, you can solicit user feedback for any type of information on your site, be they static web pages, Civ-Forms, users, announcements, etc. This user feedback can be collected on any number of axes (like "Originality", "Quality", and "Relevance"). You can use these ratings to direct your users to your best content. You will learn what they prefer.

Civ-Uploads
A serious problem currently exists on the web: How do you let users upload large files to your site, over a web interface that was never intended to handle files bigger than a megabyte? Civ-Uploads lets your users upload multi-gigabyte files without a problem. This enables you to upload files in bulk. Some current bulk-uploaded examples are digital documents and high-resolution digital pictures.

Civ-Credit
Your website can collect credit card payments via the third-party PayPal service. This quick and simple system is remarkably inexpensive to implement, and is perfect for selling "soft goods" like downloads and membership dues.

Civ-PageEdit
Civ-PageEdit lets you create and edit the static HTML files on your website through an all-web interface. It also lets you modify the presentation of the dynamic, database-backed pages as well.

Partner Sites
Your site can have a different look and feel for different groups of users. For example, Green Media Toolshed has partnered with American Rivers to create a customized and co-branded 'portal' to its data that is specifically tailored to their members. Users of these portals can have access to any subset of data defined by the site administrators, or can have their own data entirely.

Group Scoping
If you plan to have several different groups of users on your site, then you may want group scoping. This lets each group have a different set of announcements, shared calendar, bulletin board, etc.

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