ASP SiteWare Project Reporter

OVERVIEW

ASP SiteWare Project Reporter is a Project Listing and Update Report Web application. Backend by Access database, Project Reporter can store thousands of reports by project. Each report is displayed with full detail. You can customize Project Reporter to list only the projects that you want to offer your visitors. Project Reporter 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 Project Reporter is an easy-to-use ASP-based Project 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 report counter
- Unlimited reports with full details
- Complete search feature that helps visitors find the preoject report they're looking for
- Report read counter
- Allow visitors to submit reports - great for clubs, organizations or small business

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

- Password-protected Admin panel
- Add new projects, delete existing projects
- Add new reportss, edit and delete existing reports
- Admin approval on all user submitted reports

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 ProjectReporter.zip, you can either rename Project folder to something else you prefer such as "projects" or keep its original name as Project.

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 new report 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 Projectfolder 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 Project 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:

connproject.asp
connprojectAdmin.asp

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

http://www.yourdomain.com/Project/

The URL to Admin is:

http://www.yourdomain.com/Project/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:

project .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 Project Reporter.