ASP SiteWare Contact Directory

OVERVIEW

ASP SiteWare Contact Directory is a Contact Listing Web application. Backend by Access database, Contact Directory can store thousands of contacts in categories. Each contact is displayed with full detail and links to the contact's web site and email. You can customize Contact Directory to list only the contacts that you want to offer your visitors. Contact Directory is an excellent add-on for your Web site or for personal use. Start building communities and attracting more visitors to your site by using this free application.

SPECIFICATIONS

ASP SiteWare Contact Directory is an easy-to-use ASP-based Contact Listing which can be completely customized to seamlessly match your site's look and feel:

- Utilizing Microsoft Active Server Pages that can be tested and hosted on any Windows-based PCs and servers
- Unlimited categories with contact counter
- Unlimited contacts with full details
- Complete search feature that helps visitors find the contact they're looking for
- Report broken links, bookmark websites and email direct from the page
- Contact read counter

- Allow visitors to submit contacts - great for clubs or organizations

ASP SiteWare Contact Directory comes with a Web-based Admin panel, you will be able to perform all of the following:

- Password-protected Admin panel
- Add new category, delete existing categories
- Add new contacts, edit and delete existing contacts
- Admin approval on all user submitted contacts

REQUIREMENTS

- Windows Servers with MS Internet Information Server 4.0 or later
- ASP 2.0 or later
- CDONTS mail component
- Internet Explorer 4.0+ or Netscape 6.01+

LICENSING

By downloading this application, you are required to read and agree with the License Agreement for End User. Please proceed to the download page to read this agreement.

- Supported via Online Forums, Knowledge Base

SET UP

After you unzipped ContactDirectory.zip, you can either rename Directory folder to something else you prefer such as "contacts" or keep its original name as Directory.

There is a file named inc_config.asp. You need to open this file and replace the default admin email to yours. This email is used when a user sends a "Report Broken Link" to you or when new news is added.

Finally, use an FTP program such as CuteFTP or WS_FTP_Pro to upload all files and folders to your site server. If you upload the Directory folder to your web site's root folder then you will not need to change the connection paths to the database. Should you place the database (located in _private folder) in a location outside of the Directory folder then you will need to edit the path to the database's new location. You will need to edit two files in the Connections folder:

connDirectory.asp
connDirectoryAdmin.asp

If your site domain is yourdomain.com, and you do not rename the original main folder Directory, and you upload this whole Directory folder to the root of your site, the URL to your Directory front page is:

http://www.yourdomain.com/Directory/

The URL to Admin is:

http://www.yourdomain.com/Directory/admin

The default Admin account is

Admin ID: admin
Password: password

Login and you will be able to change the default password to something else.

CUSTOMIZING THE LAYOUT

If you would like to use your own template or change colors and fonts and need assistance, please visit our Support Section for links to tutorials and 3rd party designers at http://www.aspsiteware.com/support.asp<

Basic customization of the existing layout can be done very quick and easy:

To change the logo:
Create your own graphic image in the design and colors you like. Size should be 800px wide x 75px high. Name it and save it as Logo.jpg. Copy it and paste it into the assest folder overwriting the old logo file.

To change the footer:
Open the inc_footer.asp file and change the necessary information and background color to meet your requirements.

To change the menu items:
Open the inc_header.asp file and change the name of the menu items and the background color to your requirements. Create a hyperlink to the appropriate page in your web site root folder for each menu item. An example link to your home page from might look like ../index.asp or ../default.asp or ../index.html or ../default.html depending on the file type you have used for your web site pages. You can also use an absolute url if you wish. It would look like this: http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html

To change the menu item colors:
This application is customized using Casscading Style Sheets (CSS). Two such sheets are used for this application. They both may be found in the assets folder. They are:

Directory .css - controls the actual style on the application pages in both the user and admin sections
style.css - controls the actual style on the inc_header.asp and inc_footer.asp files in the main folder only

To change font type, size, color and link color simply edit the appropriate section of the style sheet(s).

SUPPORT

Please visit our Support section at http://www.aspsiteware.com/forum

Thank you for using ASP SiteWare Contact Directory.