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blog

Blogs allows registered users to maintain an online weblog (commonly known as a blog), often referred to as an online journal or diary. Blogs are made up of individual posts that are time stamped and are typically viewed by date as you would a diary. Blogs often contain links to webpages users have read and/or agree/disagree with.

forum

Forums lets you create threaded discussion forums for a particular topic on the website. This is similar to a message board system such as phpBB. Forums are very useful because they allow community members to discuss topics with one another, and they are archived for future reference.

polls

Polls can be used to create simple polls for site users. A poll is a simple multiple choice questionnaire which displays the cumulative results of the answers to the poll. Having poll capabilities is a good way to get instant feedback from community members.

Users can create a poll. The title of the poll should be the question, then enter the answers and the "base" vote counts. You can also choose the time period over which the vote will run. The poll item in the navigation menu will take you to a page where you can see all the current polls, vote on them (if you haven't already) and view the results.

search

The search tab adds the ability to search for content by keywords. Search is often the only practical way to find content on a large site. Search is useful for finding users and posts by searching on keywords.

story

The story tab (under the "create contend menu) is used by administrators to create a content post type called stories. Stories are articles in their simplest form: they have a title, a teaser and a body. Stories are typically used to post news articles or as a group blog.

user

Users benefit from being able to sign on because it associates content they create with their account and allows various permissions to be set for their roles. By default there are two types of users: anonymous - a user who has not logged in, and authenticated a user who has signed up and who has been authorized.

Users can use their own name or handle and can fine tune some personal configuration settings through their individual my account page. Registered users need to authenticate by supplying a local username and password. A visitor accessing this website is assigned an unique ID, the so-called session ID, which is stored in a cookie. For security's sake, the cookie does not contain personal information but acts as a key to retrieve the information stored on the server.

visitor

A person who does not have an account at paradiseweb.org's website or a person who has an account at paradiseweb.org's website but is not logged in with that account. Also termed "anonymous user."