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Features
On the iPad
Okay, we've spent the last several months exploring and developing things on the iPad tablet platform. While we don't want to sound like an Apple commercial, and we don't want to add needless volume to the noisy hype surrounding this new technology, and we don't want to sound like we've totally gone off our rocker, we do want to express our opinion...
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izotz!prototype : Prototyping Large Websites
Very often the things that take the longest in any website project are creating pages, filling them with content, and organizing (then reorganizing over and over) the website architecture. Prototype is a tool designed to make that part of the process much quicker and easier, and enable non technical users to work together.
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izotz!click - Building Online Marketing Campaigns
Online tools to help you build landing pages and marketing websites, split-test page performance, and create powerful online marketing campaigns.
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Building Flash Websites
The Flash Website Builder module lets you create an instant flash website out of the static webpages in your izotz universe.
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Wizard Module - Create Multi-step Pages to Display Info or Collect Data
Wizards have long been a powerful tool in guiding viewers through pages of information. If you are collecting info, a wizard can break a long form into user friendly steps. The Wizard Module lets you do all this.
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Web Tracker Tools - Get More Out of Your Websites
Let your users tell you how you need to make your website better. The Web Tracker tool gives you real time feedback on how your visitors are using your websites. Use this information to fine tune your pages.
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Want To Earn Commissions Selling Websites?
If you want to provide website building services from within your website, add this module and enable people to sign up with izotz, and collect a commission for every sign up.
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Making Landing Pages
An important part of having your website work harder for you is making stand alone webpages that support your online marketing efforts. The Stand Alone Static Webpage Module can really help you do this.
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Integrating Other Web Stuff Into Your izotz Universe
Most people have some kind of web presence. Some already have online stores, photo galleries, or other online things. It's not hard to integrate other websites into your izotz universe.
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Why Would You Need More Than One Website?
It's hard enough to build and maintain one website, who in there right mind wants two? Or three? Or a dozen? If you really want to make the web work hard for you...
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Are You Looking For the Competitive Edge in Your Business
The izotz tools are powered by a backend technology called the izotz!IMS Internet Management System. This powerful system can drive a lot of different business models, with the izotz web building tools being just one.
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Are You Into Online Games?
There are lots and lots of people out there publishing online games, many of them in the Flash format. This module lets you create pages for those games, and allows you to build your own gaming website.
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Make Your Own Online Email Forms
Email forms are a staple of nearly all websites. The Email Forms module lets you easily create custom email forms, collect information from users or send information out to people, and store that information in data files.
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Using the Mailing List Module
Combine the Mailing List module with the Broadcast Email tool and you have a very easy way to communicate with people who sign up for one of your mailing lists.
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The ISP Webmaster Module
This module will allow you to create multiple independent izotz websites. Whether you are a web designer, and ISP, or someone like the IT guy at a school district, if you need to make a lot of websites, all for different people, this module is for you. Make a BUSINESS doing izotz websites.
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Using Stand Alone Webpages
All izotz modules can run as stand alone webpages. Learn how this feature can really help you use your content in ways you might not have thought about.
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Create Your Own Social Network
Social networks are a fun and useful way for a varied group of people to connect, share, and interact. The new izotz Social Network module allows you to create your own private social network quickly and easily.
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Getting izotz onto Facebook
The izotz app on Facebook allows you to add izotz websites and web projects to your Facebook page.
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The Tao of iZotz
At first glance iZotz probably looks like one of the zillion website building tools that flood the internet highways. And on the surface it certainly is. Here's a little bit of the iZotz philosophy.
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iZotz as Add-on
You can use iZotz to build a big website. But you can also use it to build add-ons to your current website. You don't need to abandon everything you already have to leverage iZotz modules into your web presence.
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Using the Photo Gallery Module for Breaking News
One of the best things about the internet is how it can be so immediate. Say it, see it, post it, and everyone gets to share in it. And the Photo Gallery module can help you do that.
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Building Projects Offline
When building a new project, new pages for a website, or performing a major website overhaul, use these strategies to help you make the transition from stage to live.
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iZotz For Beginners
Putting things on the web using iZotz can be really easy. As your needs evolve, it can get more complicated. This introduction will give you a foundation which will make things easier for you.
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The Disposable Website
Thinking about the web differently. Maybe it doesn't have to be so permanent.
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Project Management Website Template
A disposable website that enables a team of people to collaborate on projects. Perfect for contractors, software developers, event planners, lawyers, or any other group of people who might need to communicate while working on a project.
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iZotz Mobile iPhone
iZotz Mobile gives you complete access to your iZotz administrator through your iPhone.
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WIKI
WIKI is that cool little thing you see at the bottom of many webpages that allows you to post comments about the content on a webpage. You can enable WIKI in many iZotz modules.
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When to Get Another iZotz Account
You can build as many websites and pages as you want under your iZotz membership, so why would you need more than one account?
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Messaging
The Messaging module allows you to create messaging applications that allow website members to send non-email messages to website adminstrators, a select list of people, or each other.
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Quick Prototypes
Whether or not you are building an iZotz project, iZotz can help you shorten development time on any website project. Use iZotz to prototype your projects.
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eStore
Designed to be easy to run, the eStore template lets you create online stores to sell either electronic products or hard goods, and includes a shopping cart, online payment processing, order manager, and a "specials" page.
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Schedules and Calendars
The new schedule templates let you build personal and shared calendars, work schedulers, appointment managers, and all kinds of other date related projects.
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Create an Online Newspaper
The Newspaper template makes it a snap to create and maintain online newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and when used with a little creative thought...highly adaptible standalone websites.
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Creating a Custom Administration Page
Use custom administration pages to limit administration options, reduce training, and make administrating projects painless.
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Using Friendly URL Names
When you create a new iZotz project, it gets assigned a randomly generated ID number. This ID number is then used in a URL to reach your project on the web. Using the Friendly URL Name tool you can create user friendly URL names and replace those random ID's, making it much easier to remember your project URL's.
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Create an Online Newspaper
Online newspapers, magazines and newsletters are great tools to keep people interested and up-to-date.
 ou are reading an online magazine created with the Newspaper template. The Newspaper template is one of the most powerful and exciting templates in the iZotz library in that it lets you build a great variety of online publishing tools with a lot of flexible options. If you need to publish timely content on a regular basis, this template probably will make your life a whole lot easier, and might even create some exciting new ways you can distribute your content.
This template will let you create either a periodical or a rolling publication. A periodical something that is published on a specific date, and remains current until the next edition is published. Print magazines and newspapers are periodicals. Rolling publications publish a steady stream of articles that individually begin on a certain date, and either disappear on a specifc date or expire after a certain amount of time and go into the archives. The CNN website is an example of a rolling publication...articles constantly appear and disappear.
You can create multipage publications with Sections like a newspaper or magazine. Or you can create a single page publication with all articles displayed on one page, like a newsletter might have.
Authors can submit content directly from the webpage. Editors can then review and edit that content and decide when and where to publish it.
You can link other projects, making it easy to integrate your other internet projects into the publication. This makes it easy to add things like Forums, Classified Ads, Contact Us pages, and even other publications...making it possible to use your online publication as the main event in your internet presence.
Creating an Online Newspaper
Setting up an online Newspaper or magazine is easy, simply select the Newspaper template when you create a new project. You'll then want to configure things to function like you want. Open the project manager to access the various options.
Choose a Layout
Click the Appearance tab and select an appearance skin. The Newspaper module probably works best as a standalone webpage. When run within a website it may not have enough room in that website's appearance template to layout properly. So select an appearance template that matches the other websites in your collection, and it will fit right in.
The Newspaper template has an additional important appearance setting that affects how the newspaper is laid out. Click the Content tab, then click the Settings link, then select a Layout option. The Layout option controls how the newspaper looks within the parent appearance skin. There are a number of layouts available.
Choose a Publication Type
It's best to choose a publication type then stick with it. Decide up front whether you want to publish a periodical or a rolling publication, and whether or not it will be a single page or multipage format. If you change these settings later the different way publication dates are handled by each option may interrupt the flow of articles to your newspaper with unpredictable results. Pick a format and stick with it.
If you choose the rolling publication option, be sure to set the number of days that an article remains current. The default value is 7 days, which isn't very long. If you don't have a steady stream of new articles coming in every week, you may want to increase this setting to 30 days or more.
Enable Article Submissions
This feature will allow your authors to submit articles and photos by clicking a link on the newspaper homepage. This makes it very convenient for your authors, and means you don't have to open the newspaper administration pages to them. When an author submits an article, it goes into the UNPUBLISHED pile and waits for editorial review. Once reviewed, an editor can publish the article.
Configure the Sections
Your newspaper can have sections just like print newspapers. Under Content Options, click the Edit button next to Sections. Think carefully about what sections you want to have. While you can later change them, it can be an administration headache to go back and reassign articles to new sections should you decide to delete a section.
Edit the Masthead
Click the Masthead Edit button to open an editor that allows you to create a masthead for your newspaper. The masthead can contain text and graphics, and most likely will contain whatever newspaper logo you want to use.
Sidebar Modules
Sidebar Modules are links to other web projects. These modules appear in their own menu, and give the user access to whatever projects you want to include in your newspaper. This feature makes it possible to create a full featured online publication that includes just about anything you can dream up. You can include Community Forums, Blogs, Photo Galleries, Classified Ads, or whatever else might be useful to your visitors. In effect you could create an entire standalone web presence by combining the publication capabilities of the newspaper module with other modules adding additional features. Some people might find the administration of the newspaper module much easier than a standard website and decide to make it their primary website. If you don't want your "pages" to expire and disappear, all you have to do is set expiration dates way into the future. In effect you end up with a static website.
Advertising
If you want to offer advertisers space in your online newspapers, you can enable the Advertising option. Built into the templates are placeholders for graphic ads. You can enable either a banner ad in the header, a block ad in the sidebar, or a banner ad in the footer. The Advertising option works in conjunction with the Ad Manager module. You'll need to add the Ad Manager module to your projects to use it. The Ad Manager module allows users to sign up and advertise on your webpages. It includes an ad wizard to help people build graphic ads, and a self service manager that minimizes the time you'll spend handling advertising.
Creating Content
Content articles can either be submitted via the newspaper webpage (if you've enabled this option), or created using the Project Manager. Open the project manager for the project and click the Content tab. To create a new article, click the Create New Article link. Enter the author, article date, publication date, assign it to a section, give it a title, subhead if necessary, a summary, and the body of the article. You can immediately publish the article, or leave it unpublished for future editing.
If you want the article to appear on the front page of your publication, check the Front Page option.
Once published, the article enters the content library and will appear on your newspaper according to the publication date you set.
Scheduling Content
Use the Publication Date to schedule when you want the article to appear in the newspaper. This allows you to create a lot of content beforehand have it automatically populate your publication over a period of time.
Searchable Archives
Once an article goes out of date, it gets archived in the article index. Users can see past articles either by search for articles of interest, or viewing the article index itself. All past articles are available.
Article Summary
If the publication is in a multipage format, there is a menu item called SUMMARY, which causes the newspaper to be formatted as a newsletter. All current articles are placed on a single page, allowing the viewer to quickly scan for topics of interest or easily print out all articles in the current edition.
Think Creative
The Newspaper module is one of the most exciting templates because of the potential things you can do with it. It's easy to imagine making a community newspaper, company magazine, real estate newsletter, and so on...but you might just think up some other ways you can use it in combination with your other websites, projects, or non-internet activities to do some real interesting things. The ability to schedule content, integrate with external projects and websites, and include user submitted content opens new doors in how you can leverage the web to communicate with people.
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