Soholaunch Expanded Features & Info

Does Soholaunch have some type of start-up Wizard?

Yes, Soholaunch Pro includes a QuickStart Wizard that displays when a user accesses his/her website for the first time, and helps extremely inexperienced users get up and running in just three easy steps. In keeping with our commitment to all experience levels, technically-inclined users may skip the QuickStart Wizard and proceed directly to the product's main menu. Once utilized or skipped, the QuickStart Users remains available through the product, and can be re-activated at any time.

Site Designs/ Templates

Soholaunch Pro has lots of pre-made Design Templates, just choose a Template and select a color, and every page you create will use that design. You can even customize a Template through the Site Templates Manager, change colors and styles, then assign them to your entire website in a single click. For sites that warrant the use of several different visual themes to separate large sections, templates can be specified on a per-page basis.

Pre-installed Template Options

• Choose from pre-installed templates
• Upload and use custom templates
• Assign different templates to different pages
• Specify header text for built-in templates
• Enable and customize automatic email receipts for submissions
• Specify reply-to address, subject, and content of email receipt

Custom Template Options

• Create you own designs with Template Builder
• Create and name unlimited site templates
• Choose from thousands of different color combinations
• Specify color name or hex values to match to company logo exactly
• Integrate images and logos with each template
• Apply your template to your whole site, or create several and assign them to individual pages or sections

Auto-Menu Navigation Manager

The Auto-Menu system lets you create and mangage graphical and text-based menus for your site. Simply choose which of your site pages you wish to appear on the navigation as main pages or sub-pages of others, specify the color of the buttons and their text, and your new menu is ready for use!

Create and manage navigation systems for your website

• Create graphical and text-based navigation systems
• Choose either text links or buttons for main vertical navigation
• Specify colors for text links and buttons
• Enable text-based footer navigation
• Assign main and sub pages in any order
• Display submenus automatically when browsing main section
  

Site Pages and File Management

From feature-packed marketing websites to robust eCommerce applications, Soholaunch Pro vastly simplifies the creation and management of advanced internet solutions. Extremely easy to use, yet rich in features and functionality, it empowers novices and seasoned developers alike with a streamlined development process unmatched by any other product.

Manage pages and files with a host of time-saving tools

• Create an unlimited number of site pages, and name them anything you want
• Instantly change regular site pages into eNewsletters or detail pages for Calendar events and Shopping Cart detail pages, and vise-versa
• Upload images, documents, spreadsheets, custom code, and other files
• Preview, download, delete, and rename site files through one easy interface.
• Automatic organization of files lets you spend more time building your website, and less time hunting for the files you need.

Page Editor Features

Once you've decided which Design Template to use you can start editing any of your web pages with the versatile Page Editor.

Add rich, dynamic content to your site pages

• Copy and paste text and formatting from Microsoft™ Word® documents
• Create tables for layouts and charts with borders and background colors
• Create multi-level lists with auto-numbering, bullet points, and indentions
• Control alignment of text, images, tables, and other objects
• Visually separate sections of content with horizontal dividers
• Link text and images to pages, files, email addresses, and other websites
• Wrap paragraphs and text around images and tables
• Change font types, colors, sizes, and styles

Drag-and-drop advanced features onto pages

• Linked images
• Hit Counters
• Text content
• PopUp windows
• Online forms
• Maps and directions
• WAV and MP3 audio files
• Documents and PDF files
• MOV, MPG, and AVI video files
• PlugIn links with icons
• Automatic date stamps
• Photo albums with links
• Printable Page View links
• Shopping Cart promotions

Access to page HTML for advanced users

Accessing the HTML source code for a given site page is as easy as clicking on the HTML View button in the lower-right corner of the Page Editor. You can even switch back-and-forth between HTML View and the normal Edit View as you edit your page!

Collect visitor information with online forms

Web Form Management

• Choose from pre-installed email feedback forms
• Upload and use custom forms
• Email collected data to a specified address(s)
• Redirect site visitor upon form submission
• Enable and customize automatic email receipts for submissions
• Specify reply-to address, subject, and content of email receipt

Web Form Builder

• Create online forms to collect visitor information
• Use Forms Library functions with created forms
• Collect data through single and multi-line text areas

Managing Site Data Tables

Should you need to download your order tables, customer lists, or other data files from your website, you can do so through the Site Data Tables Module. Database tables can even be downloaded and modified through Microsoft Excel, or other such programs, then imported back into website data tables!

Save countless hours by updating areas of your site all-at-once.

• View and empty all site data tables, including system tables
• Download data tables in .csv format and modify them as spreadsheets
• Import .csv data from spreadsheets (i.e. Excel ®) into shopping cart, secure user, and other system data tables
• Add and update thousands of Shopping Cart products in less than one minute
  

Multi-User Access Rights

Particularly useful when several people are responsible for different areas of a website, the Multi-User Access system allows the webmaster to create and manage an unlimited number of administrative users, each with definable levels of access to pages and feature-sets.

Photo Albums

The Photo Album module allows you to create and manage slide-show type photo albums with captions. For schools and other organizations, this feature represents an organized, attractive way to make pictures available online. Also, because each image within an album can be hyperlinked to a specified URL, designers and web developers can use the Photo Album module as an online portfolio.

Organize your pictures with interactive slide-shows.

• Create an unlimited number of separate Photo Albums
• Place up to 20 pictures in each album
• Easily make changes to existing albums
• Annotate each image with captions
• Link each image to other sites or full-size images
• Drag-and-drop albums onto site pages

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Designed to satisfy the most discerning internet strategists, Soholaunch Pro provides a host of features to help you maximize your search-engine placement.

Traffic Reports / Site Statistics>

The Site Statistics Module creates reports and graphs to illustrate basic information about your site’s visitors. By learning visitor’s surfing behaviors, such as which pages are the most popular and what type of browsers they are using, you can hone the effectiveness of your website.

Fine-tune your website by studying visitor trends

• Total unique visitors per month
• Visit frequency of unique visitors
• Most popular site pages per month
• Page views by hour of the day
• Browser and OS statistics
• Total page views per month
• Number of pages viewed per visit
• Page views by day of the month
• Referrer site rankings and statistics

Import web sites created in programs like Dreamweaver and FrontPage

Existing HTML files developed using products like Dreamweaver and Frontpage can easily by integrated into Soholaunch Pro as either templates or page content.

eCommerce Shopping Cart Module

The multi-currency Shopping Cart Module helps you develop and manage all types of eCommerce applications, regardless of scope. Effortlessly configure product categories, shipping methods, tax rates, payment options, exchange policies, and much more; all without typing a single line of code.

Unique features available to each individual item

• Add an unlimited number of items to your eCommerce store
• Define keywords for product searches
• Assign thumbnail and full size product images
• Specify price variations for different product-specific options
• Create descriptions and detail pages
• Require form data when item is purchased
• Promote with related items and accessories at checkout
• Popular payment methods for painless transactions
• Choose from online and offline processing methods
• Use any combination of payment methods you wish
• Accept specific credit cards with offline or online processing
• Accept customer payments through Pay Pal (no merchant account required),
• Verisign, and other gateways
• Secure shopping cart orders with an SSL certificate
• Charge shipping by item and sub-total
• Apply state taxes based on shipping address
• Display privacy, shipping, return/exchange, and other policies

More powerful options for profitable online catalogs

• Organize products into multiple categories
• Automatically decrement inventory upon purchase
• Choose, create, or customize colors and store layout
• Create product searches and upselling associations
• Remember repeat customer information automatically
• Allow site visitors to make product comments
• Restrict access to specified products and/or bulk pricing

Site Security

Protecting portions of your website from public access is one of the most common tasks in creating advanced web sites and web applications. Aside from extensive user-management functions, the Secure Users feature also allows you to create multiple levels of access through user-defined security codes, or "groups".

Issue members and clients a "VIP pass" to your website.

• Grant Secure Users access to special content, features, and pricing.
• Billing and shipping data can be automatically "remembered" when Secure Users make Shopping Cart purchases
• Allow Secure Users to manage their own information through your website
• Provide secure users with personal Event Calendars that they can maintain.
• Create custom searches for rosters, member directories, etc, that allow users to edit their personal data when viewing their own record in the search results.

Administrative tools for managing a community of customers.

• Restrict access to virtually anything: Site Pages, Shopping Cart products and categories, Event Calendars, and all features therein
• Organize users into groups with different "clearance levels"
• Create an unlimited number of secure users and groups
• Batch authenticate thousands of users at once with Database Table Manager
• Give users access to multiple clearance levels on an individual basis

Email Marketing

Electronic mailing campaigns are a great way to generate repeat business. Simply select your desired newsletter, which you can build in the Page Editor, and then specify who you would like to send it to, such as your Shopping Cart customers.

Generate repeat business with email marketing campaigns

• Create, send, and manage unlimited text and html campaigns
• Design dynamic eNewsletters in the Page Editor
• Populate send-to list with any data table
• Create personalized greetings for thousands of subscribers automatically
• Send eNewsletters to Shopping Cart customers
• Include site pages, Shopping Cart items, Event Calendars, and Web Blogs eNewsletter campaigns
• Unsubscribe email addresses manually or automatically

Web Blogs

Essentially the digital incarnation of newspaper and magazine columns, Web Blogs are quickly gaining popularity with budding writers and experienced journalists everywhere! With a host of user-friendly features, the Blog Manager eliminates the technical barriers of Web Blogging, and lets you concentrate on what matters most – your opinion.

Just think of it as your own "Digital Soapbox"

• Create unlimited Web Blogs to cover an infinite range of topics
• Compose and post unlimited entries to each subject
• Enhance your Blog with links, images, tables, bullet lists, and text formatting
• Automatically organize blog entries by the date you post them
• All entries filed in Blog Archives automatically
• Drag-and-drop Web Blogs onto site pages

Event Calendar

Especially useful for membership-based websites, the Event Calendar Module makes it easy to create and manage interactive event calendars for your website. When used in conjunction with the Secure Login System, you can specify the extent to which users can view and/or edit calendars and events.

Searchable event calendars keep everyone up-to-date

• Create unlimited searchable event calendars, organized into categories
• Allow site visitors to submit events to calendars they have access to
• Allow registered Secure Users to create and maintain private event calendars
• Describe events with titles, short descriptions, and detail pages
• Create individual and recurring events
• Include site pages, Shopping Cart items, Event Calendars, and Web Blogs eNewsletter campaigns
• Unsubscribe email addresses manually or automatically

Add search functionality to the Database Tables you create

Managing MySQL database tables has never been so easy. The Database Table Manager gives you total control over you’re MySQL database tables. You can change and add fields, edit individual entries, and also search your tables within Soholaunch Pro.

Should you need to download your order tables, customer lists, or other data files from your website, you can do so through the View / Download Site Data Module. Database tables can be downloaded and modified through Microsoft Excel, or other such programs, then imported back into website data tables.

Easily create robust, database-driven features for your site

• Create and delete user database tables
• Add, delete, and modify individual records
• Rename, delete, and add fields to your data tables
• Batch authenticate thousands of Secure Users in only a few clicks
• Create custom searches for rosters, member directories, etc, that allow Secure Users to edit their personal data when viewing their own record.
• Save countless hours by updating parts of your site all-at-once.
• View and empty all site data tables, including system tables
• Download data tables in .csv format and modify them as spreadsheets
• Import .csv data from spreadsheets (i.e. Excel ®) into shopping cart, secure user, and other system data tables
• Add and update thousands of Shopping Cart products in less than one minute