Software Programs

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.

Adding affiliate tracking software to your site is one of the most effective ways to achieve more sales and more traffic. Through iDevAffiliate v5 - 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 v5 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 v5 - Affiliate Tracking Software for your own Affiliate Program.

By automating the day to day tasks of webhost management, WHM AutoPilot is able to turn the time you used to spend installing and notifying your clients into time spent gathering new clients, and concentrating on marketing and providing support to your end users. Although there are still areas of the script that are handled manually, these tasks are best left to be done by human hands to keep the management in line with the actions and functions of the script.

As time progresses, the script can only get stronger, better and more feature rich. The outstanding participation from the community at the forum will continue to build this script into a strong management tool.

Started by a webhost looking for more out of a simple managment script, Brandee Diggs (Owner of Spinn A Web Cafe, Founder of Benchmark Designs) setout to build an internal management system that could handle the day to day operations of a normal hosting company.

We higly recommend this software to all web hosting concerns and use it ourselves at Promotion Hosting.

In order to monitor users visiting our sites in real time, we often utilize an open source live help and monitoring system called Crafty Syntax Live Help.

Every version of this software product that is released has shown improvements in being user friendly.

 Crafty Syntax Live Help is a multi-user, multi-operator, multi-department Live Help support chat system that allows the operators of the websites to monitor their visitors as they are browsing the site and proactively open a chat session with that visitor. You have the option of turning off the operator chat session to be in invisible mode. The modular structure and open source code allows for the highest level of freedom in customization to fit ones needs.

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.

Our web hosting division Promotion Hosting utilizes the Cerberus Helpdesk for their support queries and are extremely happy with this product.

Gallery is a web based software product that lets you manage your photos on your own website. Currently, The Promotion Group Network utilizes this open source web based photo album organizer to administer Promotion Travels.

With Gallery you can easily create and maintain albums of photos via an intuitive interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, captioning, searching and more.

Gallery is the next generation of open source photo sharing web applications and gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site.