Have fun with the Dolphin!
by cindy ~ December 20th, 2007. Filed under: software.Recently we decided to venture into the world of social networking for our site Absolutely Australia. I like MySpace for what it was, FaceBook I found all those notifications of cake, beers, kisses, dragons, etc a tad annoying (used to get 100’s of them!), Bebo was a cute program, and Orkut as with FaceBook kept you hidden behind locked doors. So I went of in search of a social networking program that encompassed what I wanted, which was a little of all of them put together.
I found some pretty good social networking programs out there, but there was one that stood out, and that was Dolphin. Aside from being like everyone & wanting everything as cheap as we can get it, I am also pretty fussy about how the site renders and its accessibility. Dolphin has been pretty impressive so far. What glitches you normally get on an install, were pretty easy to fix, with the help from their contributers at the forum. The admin section is easy to configure and navigate around. There are so many plugins for it, that I am dying to try a lot of them out (including a cool template builder for members). Members can pretty much customize it to how they want, swap interests with friends, forums, chat, video, blogs, you name it…. it pretty much has everything you could want. But best yet…. if you are prepared to carry their linkage in the footer…. it’s FREE! (you can lose the branding for a licence fee).
That’s right… I said FREE ! How cool is that!
It’s being used from dating sites, to sporting clubs, to hobbiest, travel, etc. You can check out the one I am in the process of building here: Ab Oz
