Base Configuration

The Tribalise base configuration has been designed to provide the basic infrastructure to allow all Tribe Owners to implement a basic functionality website right away.

The base configuration includes configurable menu tabs displaying and accessing the content for such things as “Home”, “About Us”, “Products”, “News”, “Contact Us” etc and basic content management for articles photos and videos. The benefit of the base configuration is the speed and ease to keep it current, make changes, evolve and enhance it from a wide range of optional components.

There are unlimited menus tabs and content categories, a large variety of templates for layout, effects position and colour and many options on the presentation of content.

This functionality includes:

  1. Full control of content using Tribalise’s award-winning content management system
  2. Content editing with WYSIWYG editor. (No HTML skills required)
  3. Multi-level sections and categories to group content into logical groups
  4. Full control of Menus and Submenus
  5. Choice of a range Templates and Colour Scheme combinations
  6. Mailing list management and Mail Out functions
  7. Importing articles using RSS Feed
  8. RSS Feed content generation for Sections, Categories and Articles
  9. Basic Contact Us page configuration

 

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The Tribalise website is an example of "The Basic Configuration"

 


USER MANAGEMENT
The Tribalise registration system allows you to configure personal options on the each site. There are nine user groups, each with various permissions levels that determine what users are allowed to access, edit, publish and/or administrate.
Authentication is a key component of user management. Tribalise supports multiple protocols, including LDAP, OpenID, and even Gmail. This allows all Tribe Leaders to use their existing account information to streamline and expedite the registration process.


MEDIA MANAGER
The Media Manager tool lets you manage media files or folders in a very simple, intuitive way. You can configure the MIME type settings to handle any type of file. To make media management easy, Tribalise has integrated the Media Manager into the Article Editor tool so you can grab images and other files at any time.


CONTACT MANAGEMENT
The Contact Manager helps the user find the right person and their respective contact information. It also allows multiple contact forms to reach specific individuals, as well as groups.


SEARCH
The Search tool helps you direct the user to the most popular search items. Additionally, it provides the Administrators with search statistics.


CONTENT MANAGEMENT
Tribalise's simplified three-tiered system of articles makes organizing your content a snap. Your users can rate articles, e-mail them to a friend, or automatically save a PDF (with UTF-8 support for all languages). Administrators can archive content for safekeeping, hiding it from site visitors. Built-in e-mail cloaking protects email addresses from spambots on all public web sites.
Creating content is simple with the WYSIWYG editor. Even novice users can easily combine text and images in an eye-catching way. Once you've created your articles, there are a number of pre-installed modules to show case the most popular ones, latest items, newsflashes, related articles, and more.


SYNDICATION AND NEWSFEED MANAGEMENT
With Tribalise, you can syndicate your site content effortlessly - our integrated system allows your users to subscribe to new content in their favourite RSS reader. It's equally simple to include RSS feeds from other sources and aggregate them all on your site.


MENU MANAGER
The Menu Manager allows you to create as many menus and menu items as you need. You can structure your menu hierarchy, as well as nested menu items, independently from your content structure. You can place any one menu in multiple places and in any style you like throughout your site. You can choose between rollovers, dropdown, fly outs and just about any other navigation system you can think of. Also automatic breadcrumbs are generated to help your users navigate within your site.


TEMPLATE MANAGEMENT

Templates in Tribalise are a powerful way to make your site look exactly the way you want. You have the option of using a single template for the entire site or a separate template for each section. The level of visual control goes a step further with potent template overrides, allowing you to customize each page component as your discretion.


SYSTEM FEATURES
Speedy page loads are possible with page caching, granular-level module caching, and GZIP page compression.
Debugging mode and error reporting make troubleshooting a breeze for your System Administrator. Your Administrators can communicate quickly and efficiently with users through private one-on-one messaging, or with all site users via the mass mailing system.


WYSIWYG EDITOR
This component is a set of tools with Office-like functions and familiar buttons to make formatting simple to create the kind of content you want, without limitations, and without needing to know or learn HTML editor).
• Upload, rename, delete, cut/copy/paste images and insert them into your articles using an intuitive and familiar interface
• Create Links to other Sections, Categories, Articles, Weblinks and Contacts in your website using a unique and practical Link featurer
• Integrated Spellchecking

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ACCESS CONTROL LEVEL MANAGEMENT
This component allows you additional control over what content is available to which users for example; customers have a different access to suppliers. It also means that certain staff can have restricted access to administer different sections of the website for example; to administer the content for different divisions or products.


DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
This component allows you full automatic control over documents, in a way that specific documents can be offered to visitors, registered users, intranet users, staff or paying customers. The group permission feature lets you choose which users can access certain documents.
• The documents can be organized across custom categories and subcategories
• Documents can be owned by a specific registered user, a group of registered users, all registered users or everybody.
• You can display a download counter per document and all the downloads can be logged (by user, IP, browser, date and hour)
• Documents can be searched by name and/or description.


GENERATE ARTICLES FROM THE FRONT END
This component allows you to create front-end "Submission forms" that publish to specific areas of the website. For example HR policy group can only publish to the HR Policy section and staff reporting incidents can only publish to the HR Incident section.


COMMENTS
This component allows visitors and or members by classification (e.g. staff, customers, suppliers etc) to comment on specific products, services or issues. This can be a powerful tool to engage specific audiences to receive feedback and have them participate in shaping the business.
• Comments can be moderated so you remain in control
• Spam can be filtered out
• RSS links can be generated


RSS MANAGEMENT
Really Simple Syndication is a format for content distribution. People subscribing to your RSS feeds allows them keep up to date with business changes, news of new products or services, sponsored blogs etc. Often, but not always, just the headlines and descriptions are imbedded in the RSS feeds with links back to your website for the full story. Any new articles from any category can be configured to trigger an RSS feed.
• Unlimited number of feed types
• Linked to other components like Event Management, Document Control, NewsLetter etc
• Linked to individual articles

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CONTACT
This component allows safe and complex contact information gathering forms to be generated on your website with custom fields, attachments and CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA is a test to ensure that a real person is providing the information and not a machine. The test displays images of distorted text for keying back in by the user.
• multiple forms with different custom fields
• block users by IP
• block messages that contain words from a list you can define
• redirect to specified page when the message is successfully sent
• record the messages in the database with the IP from which they've been sent

 

 

Website Development

Introduction

Tribalise is a feature rich content management system that you can easily use to create a website managed by multiple authors with social networking features that foster user engagement.

Tribalise allows you to create websites enhanced with social networking features and has taken the best out of social network applications and collaboration services while merging the best of the two worlds. Tribalise facilitates Facebook and Twitter integration, customizable member profiles, group blog, discussion forum, photo galleries, videos, file sharing, members endorsement, analytics, permission controls, readily-available templates and more. Your website will also be completely customizable allowing greater control over the appearance of your site.

 

Software as a Service (SaaS)

The Tribalise platform is Software as a Service (SaaS)-  You don’t have to pay huge development and set up costs we just charge a realistic monthly fee for the components you use for instance the Basic Configuration (full blown website) is only $155 per month.
 

Facebook & Twitter Integration

Tribalise can integrate your Facebook Fan page and Twitter pages into your home page and also arrange it so once you update your news page it will automatically update Twitter and your Fan page. This is also a very good process to increase your Google ranking.
 

Client Sites

Below is a link to a sample of sites developed on the Tribalise Platform and a list of the components used in those sites.  Click here for list...

 
Become a Subject Matter Specialist

Subject Matter Specialist

Content is still KING, so make sure your site is a source of great content relative to your business and keep users coming back and boost your Google ranking at the same time.

When you identify websites with RSS feeds relevant to your business, Tribalise can automatically pull in those news feeds and publish them into your website, allowing you to have daily, changing content on your website.

It is also possible to automatically populate your website with relevant video content

Re Publish your content to the web, the Tribalise platform creates RSS feeds of your websites content.  The more users that subscribe to your RSS feeds the better ranking you get in Google.
 
Create Your Private Community

Community Features

Connect - Share - Collaborate

Tribalise provides the components you need to build a fully-functional social environment & community website.  The software encourages visitors to register on your website so they can submit content, give feedback & connect with other users, stories are created and voted on by members, not website editors. The platform also enables administrators to maintain and manage their online user communities and capture customized user information during registration. Front-end users can create profiles, upload them to the Web site and browse through other user profiles.

Components

Profiles - Tribalise comes with default profile fields that can be extended or completely customized by the site administrator.
Groups - Collaborate around specific topics via public, private or hidden groups, exchange files, videos, photos and run a multi-author blog.
Blogging / Microblogging - functionality that is both powerful, yet simple to use.
RSS - All content - such as blog posts, activity streams and group discussions - is available in RSS formats.
Widgets - Add widgets to user profiles.
Video - Search for your favourite videos on services such as YouTube and add them to your video gallery.
Photo Gallery - Using the powerful Picasa plugin, let your users create their own photo galleries.
Social bookmarking - Share your web resources with others in your company, group or course.
Activity Streams - The granular activity stream feature ensures you keep up to date with all site activity.
Access controls - Control who can access your content.
Documents - Upload and share documents with the rest of your network.
 
Services

Services

Tribalise offers a range of solutions to help your business. These solutions include;
  • Web Strategies and workshops
  • Internet marketing and consulting
  • Search Engine Optimization Services
  • Social Media/Marketing
  • Website Conversion to Customers Optimization
  • Web Development
  • Content Management Solutions
  • Full E-Commerce Solutions
  • Training and Technical Support Services
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Consulting

Tribalise has developed a number of engagement workshops to step clients through a process prior to creating a website. The workshops takes clients on a business/web journey and when completed the client will have a good understanding of what they want to achieve with their website,

  • What is the website about?
  • What is your subject matter?
  • What is your main industry or industries?
  • Who is your target market?
  • What sets your approach apart from competing sites?
  • How would you like users to describe your website?
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Training


Administration and Configuration Training

Tribalise provides site owners with the training they need in order to become self-reliant, proficient content managers. During our sessions, site administrators learn how to configure and change the website while keeping within configuration parameters in the backend, making updating your site an effortless task. Tribalise understands that the more technological-savvy administrators will not have an immeidate need for this type of training - however, we do encourage them to take it in order to keep their knowledge sharp and current.

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Support Requests

Registered customer’s can lodge and track their support requests through the online customer support ticketing system on Tribalise.com - this is available online 24x7. Otherwise, feel free to call us during business hours.

Any high severity issues, no matter the cause, are given our highest priority and are responded to within four business hours.

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Automate Your Newsletters

Newsletters

News letters can be generated automatically from online articles, with the option of sending the full article, or only the introduction or only the title, from a section or a category on your website at a specified frequency to a specified mailing list.

  • Create, Modify and Send a Newsletter from the back-end -  Add attachments & Schedule mailings
  • Automatically turns newly registered users into newsletter subscribers.
  • Different member/subscriber types can be sent different news letters.
  • Any visitor can subscribe (don't need to be registered on the website)
  • Statistics (basic) tells you how many e-mails sent etc;
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Components

Components

Add components when required without having to reconfigure your site and without having to pay programmers to develop a new product.The Tribalise platform was developed to allow clients to scale up or down their website very easily when required.

Below is a list of all the current components (25) that are part of the Tribalise Platform, we regularly add new components or when a client requires a specific component for their site, it then becomes available to all clients.