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B-Net Instant Blog Network Overview

B-Net is the first application that let's you easily and quickly create a blog network from your blogs. Linking and mixing them together in one place, with huge business potential.

B-Net is a blog network hub application that acts as a single point of entry to multiple blogs.

It is easy to install, has a simple admin interface, uses ajax to restrict needless page reloads and helps create a powerful, professional blog network from your blogs.

B-Net automatically adds the blog to the network page, mixes it's feed into the global feed and outputs n number of stories.

B-Net Instant Blog Network Features

We've made B-Net a breeze to install and set up.

B-Net features include...

Settings for B-Net are controlled from an easy to use admin panel. Plus you have full access to B-Net's source code.

Rivers and Workgroups
B-Net can work in two distinct modes a) Providing a river of news and b) As a Workgroup. The river mode mixes all the feeds into one and then outputs the items in those feeds in chronological order, here's an example. The workgroup mode displays each feed in it's own area on the page with items for that feed listed below, here's an example.

Both are popular solutions for blog networks, while Blognation went for a river approach, MyKinda took the workgroup approach, as did the Web 2.0 Workgroup

Built-in Podcast Player
If you Podcast then B-Net is the perfect solution, it auto-magically senses Podcast enclosures in your feed and if it finds one the built-in MP3 player is displayed.

Visitors can then listen to the podcast right on your page.

B-Net Podcast Player

 

Image Header Links
When you add a blog you add an image for it and B-Net then creates a set of image links in the header to each blog in your network.

B-Net Blog Image Links

 

Built-in Ajax Contact Forms
B-Net comes with three ajax contact forms, so visitors can contact you regarding advertising opportunities, author opportunities and send in stories. Each submission is stored in the admin section as well as being emailed to the admin. Because the forms are ajax'd the page does not need to reload when they are used.

B-Net Blog Image Links

 

Headlines, Blog Links, RSS Feeds
B-Net looks after the display of headlines, links to blogs in the network and RSS feeds for you. They are all automatically displayed in the sidebar for each blog added.

B-Net Blog Image Links

 

Ajax'd Author Bio's
B-Net lets you add author biography's so visitors can see who's writing for your blog. They are automatically displayed in the sidebar and ajax'd so visitors don't have to suffer a page reload to read an authors bio.

B-Net Blog Image Links

 

Built for Blog Adverts
B-Net's standard K2 template has been designed to take the popular 125px by 125px banner. B-Net also has an ajax'd 'advertise here' link so visitors can enquire about advertising opportunities.

B-Net ajax author bio

 

Easy Administration
B-Net's administration system is very simple and confined to one screen thanks to ajax.

You can test drive the admin section, see below.

B-Net administration

 

Multiple Templates
B-Net's template system is simple and it shouldn't take you long, with a little bit of HTML knowledge to port a Wordpress theme to B-Net.

B-Net ships with 3 templates included, two using the river style and one workgroup template.

B-Net templates

 

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B-Net Pricing

For each licence you purchase you can install one copy of B-Net on one domain and requires a valid licence key.

B-Net Licence £49 during launch month (Jan 2008) just £25
The B-Net licence...

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B-Net Instant Blog Network Demo

Take a look at what you can do with B-Net

Our demo sites are at http://b-net.kitchentwo.com/ and http://b-net.kitchentwo.com/workgroup/

We have also ported the Limau Orange Wordpress theme (view at Wordpress) so you can see how it looks, this theme is included in the B-Net package, view the demo here. We can port any 2 or 3 column Wordpress theme for you see below for details.

You can see a live customer install of B-Net at PeerPlink Blog Network

Admin Demo:
We have set up a demo of the admin panel here. Some functions are disabled but you can add blogs and authors to get a feel of just how easy it is.

Username: demo
Password: demo

The data in the admin demo gets deleted and refreshed every hour.

B-Net Requirements

B-Net was developed on a Linux web server using PHP and MySQL.

We have tested it on various server set-ups, including cpanel and Plesk, it has not been tested on Windows. You will need:

You can download a server compatibility test here.

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B-Net Extras

You can order the following extras with your B-Net licence.

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