Overview of Community Central User Display

Overview of Community Central User Display

CommCentral.pngCommunity Central is a flexible, scalable, and affordable knowledge-sharing application, complete with forums, blogs, and social networking features like ratings and scoring for top contributors.

You could use Community Central for internal or external communities, for training or networking with peers and industry experts, or as a secure and searchable repository for enterprise knowledge. Think of Community Central as having three main components; Blog sites, Forum sites and the top level site where everything rolls up.

Each site has three main parts on its home page as described in each of the individual topics linked below.

Community Central Home Site

Number Item Description
1 Site Header In the site header area, you will find Top Navigation, Breadcrumbs and Search.
2 Side Panel The side panel contains links to Forum Sites and Blog Sites as well as Community Statistics.
3 Content Area In the content area is your welcome Banner, the Welcome Text and Announcements.

Forum Sites

SA15_ForumSite3O15.png Forum sites are sub-sites of the Community Central Home site and collect related forums.

The main Forum site page rolls up information from all individual forums in the site. It contains general information about forums in the site and links to individual forums. Access a forum site by clicking on its name in the Forum Sites list on the Community Central Home page or in the list of forum sites on the Forums Home page.

Each forum site has a similar layout as the top level Home site and Blog site.

Number Item Description
1 Site Header In the site header area, you will find Top Navigation, Breadcrumbs and Search.
2 Side Panel The side panel contains links to Forum Sites as well as Most Replies, Most Viewed, Most Active Users, Top Experts, Forum Links and Forum Statistics.
3 Content Area The content area is for your welcome Banner and the List of Forums.

Blog Sites

SA15_BlogSiteO15.png Blog sites are also sub-sites of the Community Central Home site and collect related blog posts.

The blog site home page contains links to blog-related activities such as creating and managing blog posts. Access a blog site by clicking on its name in the Blog Sites list on the Community Central Home page.

The layout for blog sites is also similar to the Forum and Home sites and includes the following items:

Number Item Description
1 Site Header In the site header area, you will find Top Navigation, Breadcrumbs and Search.
2 Side Panel The side panel contains links to Blog Tools as well as Blog Sites, Most Viewed Blogs, Top Rated Blogs, Blog Links and Blog Statistics.
3 Content Area In the content area, find your welcome Banner and the List of Recent Blog Posts.

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