| XcDirectory Standard Edition |
XcDirectory Standard Edition includes the following user features.
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| User Feedback & Ratings |
Users can rate and leave comments about the listings on your site index. As the
administrator, you can also choose to moderate ratings and comments to prevent any abuse. However,
if you do not wish to have end users rate links then, like many features in
XcDirectory, you can simply disable this option.
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| Search Link Index |
Powerful search feaures allow users to find relevant links and information quickly and easily.
The search functionality allows combination of search terms and fields (when additional fields are enabled by the administrator).
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| Individual Link Statistics |
XcDirectory automatically keeps track of statistics for each link such as total number of
hits, number of hits per day, and average number of hits per day.
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| Special Link Icons |
Specials icons can be defined to make it easy to highlight links in various ways to site users.
The administrator can define an unlimited number of special icons.
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| Report Broken Links |
Users can easily report broken links to the system so it is easy to maintain very large site indexes
without having to perform extensive checks yourself. Since your site user is likely to notice a problem link before you do, this makes
it easy to ensure that your site does not contain a lot of useless links.
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| Mail To Friend |
The Mail To Friend feature makes it easy for users to send relative information to their friends and
associates. Not only is this functionality useful to your users, but you benefit as well since you can also include your own text in the Mail to Friend
notification; when site visitors send information to their friends, they will also be promoting your site.
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| User Sort Options |
Users can sort category lists and search results by various methods so that the order makes the most sense to them. They can sort by Title; Ratings;
Total Number of Hits; Hits Per Day; and Newest.
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| Add Link |
Users can submit their own links which helps keep your site content fresh. By
letting users submit links, you get their help in keeping your site index more relevant as well as
in finding more material than you could on your own.
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| View Hot Links |
Users can quickly see a list of the most popular links in your site index.
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| View Newest Links |
Your users can quickly see the latest items added to your site. This feature is great for your regular users, as they
won't need to look far in order to see the most recent additions.
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| View Highest Rated Links |
Site visitors can see the links that other users find most valuable. The ratings can help new users to
finding the best content in your site index.
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| Upload Link Logo |
Users can upload and attach a logo to a link. The upload feature requires the web server to have a
supported Upload Component. See FAQ Article #12
for details.
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| XcDirectory Pro Edition |
XcDirectory Pro Edition includes all the above features of the Standard Edition,
plus it also provides a couple of additional user interface features as
described below. The Pro Edition of XcDirectory features the XUD User Management System.
XUD is a complete user account management system that makes it easy to manage user details
on your site. It also provides complete integration with other XCENT web server applications.
XcDirectory Pro Edition provides many more features for the site administrator. See the Admin
Features section for more details.
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| My Favorites |
XcDirectory Pro Edition allows users to create their own list of favorite listings on your site. This
feature is implemented in a way that is more useful than the way most other applications do it. Most sites simply store your favorites
information in cookies in the user's browser. If the user accesses a site like this from a different machine
or upgrades their own machine, they loose their list of favorites. But users will never loose their favorites with XcDirectory!
When users save
their own favorites on your XcDirectory site, they can access them from any computer connected to the Internet.
They can do it anywhere, at any time without having to even think about it!
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| Manage My Links |
XcDirectory Pro Edition allows end users to completely manage their own link submissions on your site. They can
edit their links, change subscription options for each link, and more. When billing users for additional
options, users can manage the renewals for each link on their own.
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