? Planning to emulate the success of Giants like Facebook and Orkut? Well, who can dare stop you?
As the legendary Mark Twain once said:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
All great ideas need a deep resolve and the right platform for them to materialize in to reality. The former is in-built in to everyone and I can not in any way bring it out for you through this article. As far as the platform goes, yes we certainly can discuss ways of building a successful platform to kickstart our dreams. So, if building up a social networking website is what you have in mind. Well, help is most certainly available in the form of social networking script.
Drupal, a free to use open-source Content Management System (CMS) and can be effectively used to develop social networking scripts fully loaded with exciting features which most of the social networking websites presently deploy. Drupal is a powerful technology which has found growing acceptance for building various social community tools such as blogs, discussion forums, chats, etc.
The following modules can come in handy while implementing a Social Networking Script using Drupal:
" Activity (Tracks activities which people do on a social networking site. Eg. Jim is Louis's latest fan)
" Appbar (A toolbar at the bottom of the window with links and AJAX-driven notifications just like Facebook)
" Invite (helps in sending and tracking invitations which are an important element on building upon a network)
" Comment Notify (a utility to alert viewers and notify them of areas where comments were left after their interactions)
" Content Construction Kit (cck lets you make any type of content allowing you to add custom fields to nodes using a web browser)
" Private Message (Enables messaging from user-to-user)