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On these pages you can read about the Open Source software’s that are available for you to use online. This is software that will make your life online a lot easier and make your website more advanced and easier to maintain to a low cost.


What Is Open Source Software?

Answering the question "What is Open Source software?" used to be a lot simpler than it is today. Open Source began as, and for the most part still is, software created by a community of people who are dedicated to working together in a highly collaborative and evolutionary way.
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Software You Can Choose To Use

You have the possibility to use and benefit from some of the most popular Open Source software's around at with a little help from Success Webmasters. You can set up your own blog (private or business), an online shopping system to sell your products or services, photo galleries to share your pictures with family and friends, a Content Management System to make the managing and updates of your website a lot easier, and a lot more.


With over 30 different Open Source software systems, and growing all the time, we offer the best Open Source software solutions around. Sign up today, and get started running your website.


Advertising Software

Do you have advertisements on your website? Then you know the hassle and how much time you have to spend to keep all those ads up to date. There is easier ways to do this and that is to have your own ad management server.

With your own ad management server you will be able to handle more advertisements on your website (websites) and make more money.
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Blog Software

A blog (web log) is useful and easy way to keep in touch and inform your customers, friends and other interested about what is going on in your business, life or just in general. A blog is also one of the best marketing tools for your business or project and every business should have one.

Here you can choose from different blog platforms, from single installations to have your own complete blogging service.
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Content Management Systems (CMS)

If you want to get away from the hassle and trouble to update your website or paying someone else to do it for you – then is Content Management Software something for you.

With a CMS to handle your website and your website content your website will be able to offer more advanced functions to your visitors. At the same time it will be a lot easier for you to manage and update the site without paying a lot of money to someone else.
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a term applied to processes implemented by a company to handle their contact with their customers. CRM software is used to support these processes, storing information about customers and prospective customers. The information in the system can be accessed and entered by employees in different departments, such as sales, marketing, customer service, etc.

You can get help with everything from installing the system to provide training and motivation for the employees to learn, provide input and take full advantage of the information system.
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Electronic Commerce (eCommerce)

Electronic Commerce (eCommerce) has become well-established in most places in the world. Even many “brick-and-mortar” companies have recognized valuable niche markets and have started to add eCommerce capabilities to their Web sites.

Electronic commerce still has unlimited potential offering lucrative profits for those who know how to get it going. Whether you are going to sell business-to-business or business-to-consumer; whether you aim big or are going for "the long Tail", there is Open Source software you can use.
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Educational Software (eLearning)

Educational software is a very wide definition and it contains a wide range of different kinds of software. Elearning systems are sometimes also called a Learning Management System (LMS), Course Management System (CMS), Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), education via computer-mediated communication (CMC) or just Online Education (Elearning).

Here you can find software to use in the later category, elearning. You can use the software as your training site or as a support to your regular site. You can also offer training online to your website visitors or have a system where you staff is training and learning new things they need to know for to do their work.
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Forum Software (Bulletin Boards)

An Internet forum is a facility on the web for holding discussions, or the web application software used to provide the facility. A sense of virtual community often develops around forums that have regular users. Internet forums are also commonly referred to as web forums, message boards, discussion boards, discussion forums, discussion groups, bulletin boards, fora (the proper Latin plural) or simply forums.

Here you can get help with your forum, from installation to design and even help to get the forum started with new members. We support some of the most popular Open Source forum systems that you can have installed on your website.
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Help and Support Software

Different kinds of software to help visitors to your website and/or your customers to find what they are looking for. It can be everything from providing knowledge via Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) or a knowledgebase. To more complex and interactive systems like live help where site visitors can ask you questions directly.
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Mailing List Software

An electronic mailing list is a special usage of email that allows widespread distribution of information to many Internet users at the same time. It is a great tool to send publications to the members of the list or your customers. Widely used as distribution of newsletters that keeps customers up to date about the company’s services and/or products or as an electronic magazine (ezine).

To take control over your newsletter / ezine distribution you need your own electronic mailing list management system that can be used for announcement lists and discussion lists. Success Webmasters help you to install and get started with your own system to send your newsletter and/or ezine.
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Photo Blog Software

A photo blog is a chronological log of photography. Each photo in the log has a date associated with it. When you're looking at any photo in a photo blog, you can generally navigate directly to the next older or next newer photo. Photo blogs also tend to have archives that allow you to view all the photos sorted by date. A Photo blog might also have the photos sorted by category or it might not. Having categories isn't required to be considered a photo blog.

If you want to describe your life, your holiday or something else in chronological order then you should use a photo blog. Here you have the opportunity to use some of the best Open Source photo blogging software around.
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Photo Gallery Software

A photo gallery, also called image gallery, picture gallery, etc., is basically just a collection of images. Often galleries are sorted into different categories and/or albums to make the images easier to view. A gallery may have the images sorted by date or it may not. Having dates isn't required to be considered a gallery.

You can get your own photo gallery whether you just want a small gallery to share some pictures with family and friends. Or, you maybe want a big gallery where users can submit and share their pictures.
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Project Management and Groupware

Project Management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. Without going any deeper in to what project management is we can say that there are some very good tools available as Open Source software.

Project management software is mostly suitable for companies managing different kinds of project tasks. The software can be either online or localized in the company’s intranet.
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Social software

Social software is software that allows users to interact and share data with other users online. With this broad definition there is many Open Source software’s available. Here we more focus on dating software, social bookmarks and other software’s to share things.
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Web Portal Software

A web portal is a kind of Content Management System that typically provide personalized capabilities to their visitors. Portals often have the same features as a regular CMS but are more designed to use distributed applications, different numbers and types of middleware and hardware to provide services from a number of different sources. In addition, business portals are designed to share collaboration in workplaces.
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Wiki Software

A wiki is a type of website that allows users to add, remove or otherwise edit and change all content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a website, or to certain specific wiki sites.

A wiki can be very a very effective way to share information whether it is online or at your companies intranet. Just to spread information among employees in a company is one of the strengths with a wiki. We help you install and get going with your own wiki on your website or in your intranet.
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