Tips and Tutorials: Selecting a Server for your Community
So you’re ready to create a social networking community with SocialEngine. To start, you need a server. Already have one? Great! Don’t have one? No sweat. It’s as simple as signing up with a company like Arvixe who offers optimized servers configured for SocialEngine. Arvixe is not your only option either. Really, any server that…
Building Your Social Network
SocialEngine is more than just a turnkey solution. A visit to our customize section demonstrates how dynamic a SocialEngine site can be with custom development. Modifications, simple or extreme, result in a social networking website specialized for you and your community. Sounds great, right? So how do you start? One place is our documentation section.…
Increase Community Engagement with Games
Add arcade games to your community with add-ons developed by SE4Mods, ITterra, and Radcodes. Members can compete with one another over high scores and leaderboard rankings in thousands of games intergrated from services like Mochi Media and Kongregate. Use MochiAds to earn revenue while members play. A Games Plugin is a fun and simple way…
Tips and Tutorials: Selecting a Theme for your Community
Presentation is an important element when creating your community. How are you representing your idea visually? In what ways can design improve the experience? A glance at our client showcase sites demonstrates how differently a SocialEngine website can be themed. Our default themes provide some variety, but for those you who find these themes too…
Setting Up a Local Development Environment
Hello everyone! I’ve been hearing a lot of requests to explain what kind of IDE and environment we use for local development. In house, we all agreed to use Netbeans IDE (http://netbeans.org/features/php/). This has great SVN support and works well with the Zend Framework. I will go over setting up a SocialEngine project below. Depending…
Tips and Tutorials: Photo Tutorials on Facebook
We want to let everyone know about the photo albums we’ve been posting on our Facebook Page. Give us a “Like”, if you haven’t already, and check out the links below for helpful screenshots and documentation. We’ll be posting more photo tutorials on Facebook, so be sure to check in from time to time! Membership…
Tips & Tutorials: How to Monetize Your Community
During development of your SocialEngine site you may wonder, how do I monetize my Social Network? For some, monetization simply means covering the costs of the niche Social Network they have built, and for others the goal is to grow into a profitable business. Here are some key features you may find with SocialEngine that…
Tips & Tutorials: Spam & Banning Tools
Many of you have emailed us asking how to best protect your community from spam and fake user-profiles. Our software includes built-in tools for spam control, however some of them are not enabled by default. The
Wanted: Import Scripts, Plus New Tutorials for Developers
To our utmost delight, we’ve been seeing lots of requests from people who have existing communities but want to switch to SE. Based on the volume of these requests, we know that there’s a real market opportunity for some third-party developers to produce and sell these import scripts. Make sure to let us know if…
Tutorial: Adding your header/footer
Everyone, We know that giving your community a unique look is an absolute priority. We built the Layout Editor in SocialEngine 4 to make this easy. Still, we’re getting a lot of questions about how this can be done, so we wrote a tutorial to help guide anyone with questions about it. I hope this…
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