Software and Tools
The Promotion Group Network of sites utilizes a number of software and tools to maintain and expand it's presence. The following are some of these utilities that we feel worthy of mention.
The Gimp
GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package. Once again The Promotion Group chose a
free program to help the organization to experiment with logos and images. There was no
second choice as The GIMP was always foremost in our minds for this purpose. GIMP is an
acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such
tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities.
It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an
online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format
converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins
and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything
from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs
on MS Windows and Mac OS X.
Cerberus Helpdesk
Cerberus Helpdesk is a support ticket system to aid your company in answering queries from clients and
other visitors. A web-based support portal provides your customers with an easy-to-use helpdesk
interface to keep track of their queries and the response sent from your company. Cerberus clears
the many obstacles in productively handling e-mail interaction between you and your clients, and
offers excellent tools necessary to view and manage your e-mail workload. The major advantage is
that you can adapt and integrate the system according to your needs. The Promotion Group Network
utilizes the Cerberus Helpdesk for their support queries and are extremely happy with this product.
Virtualmin Professional
Virtualmin is the world's most powerful and flexible web server control panel. Manage your virtual
domains, mailboxes, databases, applications, and the entire server, from one comprehensive
interface. Virtualmin offers four methods for managing your server: Web, mobile device, command
line, and remote API. Virtualmin is always available, no matter where you are or how you want to
work. Virtualmin is a uniquely powerful and flexible web server administration tool. It is
unmatched in features and ease of use. Based on Webmin, it offers a wide array of
productivity-enhancing tools for hosting providers, web developers, web designers, and end users.
iDevAffiliate
Adding affiliate tracking software to your site is one of the most effective ways to achieve more
sales and more traffic. Through iDevAffiliate v6 - Affiliate Tracking Software we have achieved
this purpose, and is available from the Promotion Hosting website under our Affiliate Program. The
software is an effective affiliate marketing and sales campaign, with features that are both advanced
and comprehensive for the affiliate user as well as the administrator. Utilizing PHP and a MySQL
database, iDevAffiliate v6 not only uses cookies for affiliate tracking but also IP logs.
The sessions are for immediate purchases and cookie/IP backups for future visits, so with this
full-proof method of affiliate tracking, the user is well aware that no sale is being left out of
the tracking process. From our experience, we highly recommend iDevAffiliate v6 - Affiliate Tracking
Software for your own Affiliate Program.