Fan Websites is a software-as-a-service company, our websites are powered by the Spruz
Social Website Platform. A cutting edge social website creation technology that
makes it easy for you to build a website with fully integrated social features. Enjoy continuous updates,
improvements and new features without the worries of having to install a
software update again! Our websites are a complete solution with a robust
website, hosting, support, and maintenance. Perfect for businesses and
non-profits that want to take advantage of what social websites can do for you.
Content and Pages
Our content tools allow you to quickly add and remove features,
build pages from our system elements and interactive widgets, select
from a variety of page types, and instantly install a page template or
one of our many modules. |
- On-page Drag and Drop for customizing your content and feature placements.
- Drag and Drop link organization with Sub Navigation Menu options
- Control page access, set permissions to allow only certain
groups of people to view links or access pages.
- Change the layout of element based pages to 4 different layout types.
- Change your global area structure to include left, right and top
navigation areas or use them all.
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- Change your global page layout for a wide selection of element placement
options
- Add and Customizable a site intro page that displays to new visitors when
they first visit your website
- Add your own Favicon
- Add custom HTML and Javascript with our custom HTML pages and
Custom Content Elements.
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Page Elements and Widgets
Page elements are boxes you can add to any dynamic page that work
directly with our multitude of integrated features. Elements allow you
to really customize pages. Widgets are 3rd party components with a selection of 1000's of
widgets brought to you by WidgetBox. |
- Add navigation, custom text, code boxes and more to your
website
- Elements tie directly to our features like member profiles,
blog, forums, videos and more. (Seamless Look and Feel)
- Customizable element controls that allow you to choose how
the information is displayed on your website
- Easily add widgets with our widget Library powered by Widget
Box. WidgetBox allows us to offer 1000's of widgets.
- Add Widgets like games, music, twitter and many more with ease.
- Element moderation controls for setting moderators over
elements.
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- Drag and Drop element and widget placement
- Elements are easy to use and add to your website, just point and click.
- Advanced styling features designed to support custom CSS styling
that allow a great deal of control over the look and feel of a
website.
- Additional standalone elements integrated directly with the
member system like Shoutbox, Live Chat Box, Comment box and many
more.
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Integrated Design Editing and Theme Library
Getting the look you want is important and Spruz offers the most
customizable design engine in a social website platform. Our design editor is easy use for a beginner but has advanced features to give
the control
needed for advanced web designers. See your changes on your actual
site as you make them, save an unlimited number of design combinations
and load them later. |
- Control the look of your entire site layout
- Easy to use auto color scheme presets or create your own custom colors for each
part of your site.
- Upload your own images or quickly browse files already uploaded
- See your changes in real time on your actual website.
- Share or sell your theme designs in our network of 1000's of
websites
- CSS modifiers that allow you to add quick CSS code pieces that
can be enabled or disabled with ease
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- Advanced Full CSS code editor that allows you to preview your custom
changes in real time.
- Large Selection of premade themes. No information overload, by default our theme library displays
themes that closely match your needs.
- New themes are added regularly by theme submissions from our
designer community
- Preview themes before your apply it to your website. Just like
trying on an outfit and looking in the mirror.
- Tag based Theme searching makes it easy for you to narrow or broaden
your theme search to find a theme that is perfect for your website.
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Member Management
The biggest advantage of a social website is the ability for members
to join and participate on your website. Our member management allows you to control member access, view custom information, lock/ban
accounts and so much more. |
- Search registered members
- Set member access, assign site administration
- Approve, Lock or Block member accounts
- Edit Global Profile Settings
- Assign site moderators
- Member box element that may be placed anywhere on your website with
options to display member info by latest registration, most popular,
recent visitors and many more.
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- Set email confirmation time limit from confirm at registration,
by number of days or never require confirmation.
- Spammer controls with mass delete options for removing rouge
member accounts
- Integrated Email Broadcast (Premium Feature)
- Export member info including emails for use with email
newsletter software (Premium Feature)
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Site Activity Tracking
Insight into your active community is key. With our integrated site
activity you can see your site traffic, members joining and what they
are doing on your website. |
- View the number of visitors and page views on a daily basis
- See your website member activity
- Member Activity elements you can place on your website to show
recent member contributed content.
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- Snapshot of members joined and registered
- For even more in-depth tracking easily add Google Analytics to
your website for free.
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File Management
Our file manager allows you to manage site resources, files uploaded
by your members and to store
supporting files for your website. |
- Upload image, document, and archive files
- Click on a file to get more information including URL path, and
quick HTML for images
- Image HTML generator for image files uploaded. (Makes it easy to
share embeddable image codes)
- Create folders to keep things organized
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- Access your members resources folders to manage there supporting
content.
- Customize your websites Email Templates
- Moderator files uploaded by your members.
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Member Profiles
A social website would not be complete without your own member
profile system. Member profiles allow your
members to create their own personalized custom profile with drag and
drop management features and custom styling. |
- Personalized Member Picture
- Customizable member about details
- Drag and Drop profile elements (Shoutbox, Custom Text, Photos,
Friends and More)
- Assign profile moderators that can remove or edit member profile
information, photos, and elements. (Admin Option)
- Custom Profile Designer
- Member Photos, Videos and Friends Pages
- Management settings to control what features and options you
want to allow your members to use with the Member profile system.
(Admin Option)
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- Custom Friend Naming Scheme (Admin Option)
- Friend Activity Feed
- Status updates and personalized activity feed.
- Member Profile privacy options
- Set a default profile friend for new members that join
- Customize the default profile elements and arrangement for new
members
- Integrated website inbox/message system for internal mail.
- Allow your members to grow your site virally with our range of
invite and sharing features. Inviting also supports a range of
address books for easy importing of contacts.
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Member Groups
Member groups allow your members to create groups of members on a
range of topics or goals. |
- Control who can Add, Edit and/or Delete Groups
- Personalized Group Picture
- Group sorting and searching
- Drag and Drop group elements (Mini-Forum, Shoutbox, Custom Text, Photos,
Members and More)
- Custom Group Styles allowing group owners to customize the look
of their group pages.
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- Group member approval and inviting features
- Group Moderation with administrator edit and delete options on
all group content.
- Group elements for displaying information about your groups on
any dynamic page within your website.
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Chat and instant messaging
Communication is a key part of any social network. That is why we
deliver real time IM and Chat Features |
- IM settings for controlling if members can Instant Message
anyone or just friends
- Tool Bar option that displays a persistent Social Bar at the
footer of your website.
- Tool bar features optional search box, friends list, offline
mode and much more
- Active Online features, with quick IM links on member profiles
and who's online boxes (If Enabled).
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- Full featured chat room with customizable smiles
- Chat Private Messaging
- All chat features are integrated with your website, this makes
things simple, while giving you a great ammount of control over Chat
systems on your website.
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Blog
Our integrated blogging system gives you the tools to provide your
own blogging service to your website members. |
- Control who can Add, Edit and/or Delete Blogs
- Create Unlimited Categories and set member posting permissions
by the category or on the entire blog.
- Add blog moderators to control user contributions.
- RSS feeds on the whole blog and by the category
- Rich text editor with Spell check built in
- Blog commenting and moderation
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- View Tracking
- Blog Featuring and Approval options
- A highly scalable blogging platform.
- Blog Preview elements for displaying information directly from your blog on other pages of your website.
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Event Calendar
You and your members can post upcoming events for people to RSVP directly on your website. |
- Control who can Add, Edit and/or Delete Events
- Event planning with date, time and RSVP options
- View and print RSVP lists.
- User Moderation over their own RSVP lists
- Options to Open up commenting and photo sharing for an event
- Setup private or public events
- Set location information and integrated Google map with
directions.
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- Setup pay events integrated with Paypal. When a Paypal payment
is received your event RSVP list is updated automatically.
- Set your own registration price and the Paypal email address you
want payments sent to.
- Event Moderation for Approving Events, Edit and Delete Events
and managing comments.
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Forums and Discussions
Discussions can be a key part of your website and with our forums
feature we offer a very scalable discussion platform integrated directly
into your website. Our forums allow you to create a structure for open or closed
discussion among your website members. |
- Control who can Add, Edit and/or Delete Topics
- Works seamlessly with your website and members. No need to
register again to use the forums
- Allow users to create discussion, Q&A or poll oriented posts.
- Topic Rating features.
- Customizable member signatures or turn them off.
- Rich text editors for creating a post with built-in spell check,
customizable smiles and video embedding features.
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- Full moderation features for editing, deleting, moving and
approving topics.
- Customize forums with a range of posting permission options and
topic types (Polls, Q&A, or Discussion)
- Assign moderators by the forum or on the entire forum index.
- Private and Public Forum Settings
- Create unlimited forum groups, categories, and topics.
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Site Photo Galleries and Searching
A picture is worth a thousand words, and 1000 pictures should be
worth many more. You and your members can upload and manage countless
photos with our Photo Galleries and Collections. |
- Control who can Add, Edit and/or Delete Photos
- Integrated directly with the member photos system for easy photo
management.
- Photo Moderation for Photo Approval, Editing and Deleting Photos and Collections,
and managing photo comments.
- Manage contribution by the photo collection for optional
granular control.
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- Image Tagging, Sharing, and Featuring
- Photo commenting
- Photo related page elements for displaying featured, most
popular, and other display options that can be placed on other pages
of your website.
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Videos and Video Searching
Video adding, organizing and searching is an important part of any
social network. Add the video page to allow your users to post their
favorite videos. |
- Control who can Add, Edit and/or Delete Videos
- Video Approval Options allowing detailed moderation of videos
submitted.
- Set moderators for managing submissions.
- Videos searching by name, tags and descriptions
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- Video Commenting, Ratings, Featuring and more
- Videos Box page elements for displaying information from your
videos system on other pages of your website with a range of options
and settings.
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Link Directory
Everyone has their favorite websites they want to share with the
world. With our integrated link directory you and your members can add
listings of websites with website preview snapshots of the actual
website on the listing. |
- Control who can Add, Edit and/or Delete Links
- Track link clicks, and views
- Enter link name, description and other info
- Integrated link searching
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- Snapshot preview image of the website in the listing.
- Set moderators for managing submissions.
- Commenting, Ratings, Searching and more
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Public File Download System
You and your members can post files for public download, create your
own file repository that anyone can visit to download files contributed. |
- Control who can Add, Edit and/or Delete Files
- Track downloads and views
- Enter descriptions, photos and more.
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- Allow commenting, and ratings
- Set moderators for managing submissions.
- Download related elements for showing top downloads and more.
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Member Subscription Service (Premium Feature)
Setup your own optional subscription website integrated with PayPal. |
- Setup your own subscriptions with description and automatic
monthly payments.
- Control the pages and areas subscribers can access
- Tracks revenue generated
- Offer free 30 day trial subscription plans
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- Integrated directly with PayPal for quick setup.
- Payments come directly to you, no revenue share with us.
- Users can easily cancel their subscriptions right from their
PayPal account.
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Shopping Cart (Premium Feature with 30 day free trial)
Ecommerce is one component you won't find built into a social website
platform. But we offer that too, with a place to list and sell your
products integrated seamlessly with your website. |
- Add products with descriptions, pricing and style options
- Category support for organizing your shopping cart inventory.
- Product searching with a range of sorting options including by
lowest price.
- Inventory control options for displaying only in stock items.
- Upload an unlimited number of photos per item.
- Supports inventory up to 20,000 items.
- Manage limited quantity items.
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- Setup an unlimited number of style groups, (Color, Size, etc)
- Set up to 2 style groups per item, (Size and Color for example)
- Order notifications and manage order status.
- Order management area with Tracking information logging.
- Integrated with Paypal for easy checkout and payment.
- Integrated Merchant account support for use with your own
merchant account
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Advanced Custom Integration Features
Expandable to your needs; we feature components and features that
make it easy to develop applications that work seamlessly with your
website. |
- Add chat rooms, newsletters and more using 3rd party embeddable
technology (Javascripting, Custom HTML,Flash)
- Use Embeddable Code in almost any area of your website, from
custom code elements to source views on custom HTML pages.
- Easily integrate Google Analytics with your website for detailed
visitor tracking.
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- Setup additional coding on your own server that connects using
our XML SPI structure.
- Plain Text SPI codes for passing information to 3rd party
components to show user details and other site related information.
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On the horizon
Our technology is always growing with the needs of our users, in
order to provide you with the best white label social website solution
available today. A sneak peak at some new features coming to the
platform in the future. |
- Classified System (Create your own Craigslist)
- Member Points System (Awards members for site activity)
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- Never pay for bug fixes or updates again (All improvements are
automatically applied in real time to your website.)
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Many other features to explore
There are many other features and components for you to explore.
Create the site of your dreams that will grow with you and your needs.
You decide the features you want to use. |
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Free or Pay it is up to you. With our premium options you build the plan that suits your needs and
fits your budget, with plans starting from $19.95 per month.