Free Drupal Hosting Promo

Submitted by alaa on Fri, 13/05/2005 - 05:51.

So while the free drupal hosting service we are running on manalaa was not a spectacular success we got 5 subscribers ya3ni the service is useful.

thought I'd tell you about the features in drupal (sad attempt at PR ya3ni).

you can test all these features at the demo site.

At Manalaa (TM) You have the power to

CREATE

  • Blogs
  • Image galleries
  • Discussion forums
  • Polls
  • Surveys
  • Event calendar and send invitations
  • Create your own content types and forms (book or movie reviews)
  • Books with hierarchical organization

CONTROL

  • Categorize your content (unlimited categories and hierarchies)
  • Selective unpublishing of contents (no need to permanently delete content)
  • Schedule automatic publishing or unpublishing of content
  • Advanced logging and statistics of traffic and visitors
  • Extend the features by third party modules

SHARE

  • Invite your friends to blog with you (multiuser blogs)
  • Collaborative editing and authoring
  • Create different roles for your blogging partners
  • Upload files (bas mat7efesh wenabi)

Engage your visitors

  • Comments
  • Threaded comments
  • Advanced comment control
  • Chatbox (shoutbox)
  • Send mail to subscribers
  • Automatic highlight of difficult words and abbreviations
  • Contact and feedback forms
  • Syndicate your content with RSS
  • Track new content and changes easily

Become popular

  • Appears quickly in search engines (pings directory services automatically)
  • FOAF support
  • Can sustain high loads (caching and throttling)

Drupal

Is easy and convenient to use

  • Easy interface for visitors
  • Easy administration interface
  • Publish content using desktop blogging software
  • Easily create navigation menus
  • Easily compose posts, no need to learn html (wiki syntax or rich editors)
  • Get notified (you and your members) of new posts and comments
  • Detailed documentation and help system

Looks good

  • Smilies and avatars (user pictures)
  • Choose from several themes and edit them
  • Customized sidebars
  • Friendly urls that are easy to remember
  • Printer friendly format for books

Speaks your Language

  • automatically switches line direction according to language
  • choose from lots of interface languages including Arabic

Is

  • Open Source
  • PHP based
  • mySQL Powered
  • Written in a very flexible and modular way

The good bawabin at Manalaa will be taking regular automated backups, dah tab3an apart from the normal polishing, cleaning and buying the bread.

apply today, send an email و ان خلص الفول أنا مش مسؤل

( categories: FOSS | technology | Web )
Submitted by R (not verified) on Fri, 13/05/2005 - 20:41.

Ok.. I have many questions but the first of them.

Does it work well with Mac OS X?

Submitted by alaa on Sat, 14/05/2005 - 00:16.

its all standard xhtml, with only two extra features relying on javascript, ya3ni the whole thing is standard web technologies and runs from any browser.

Submitted by alaa on Fri, 13/05/2005 - 20:38.

its very modest, this is a small thing, if it works out I'll seek funding and move or figure another way of getting better infrastucture.

at the moment it runs on a User Mode Linux based Virtual Private Server from RoseHosting.

Submitted by MohamedfromCairo (not verified) on Fri, 13/05/2005 - 13:53.

This is great. Could you guys provide more info as to your infrastructure, network and processing/memory capacity?

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