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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=107353712-22082008>Dear
all,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=107353712-22082008>I am in dire need of
help/advice, so if you have any advice, please help.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=107353712-22082008>I am a teacher
trying to bring this technology to my educational institution, however I'm
lacking in 3 areas in order to present something that I would get accepted
in our system (of over 100,000 students).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=107353712-22082008><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>1. I
need a strong self-registration system. I tried using ZAP (member
management) and Presence Awareness, however with both of these recipes I ended
up having to start over. Regarding both of these recipes. Is anyone
still using ZAP? If so, could you let me know if I could contact you with
ZAP specific questions? Also, with Presence Awareness, there are a lot of
problems with the technology as I can register without having to put more than a
user-name and password, however in my system I need an elaborate amount of
detail on students (e-mail, address, phone number, etc.). Has anyone
updated this recipe and are willing to share with me their updated
version? Or would someone recommend to me a different recipe, if so,
how do you use it?<SPAN class=606521714-22082008><FONT
color=#0000ff> <FONT color=#000000>Sorry, but I need some detail on
this.</FONT> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=107353712-22082008>2. I need
something that will show the presence of people on the wikisite and will allow
people to instant message another. I noticed ZAP allowed this capability,
but as I mentioned the program didn't work for me and I found the ZAP site to be
more confusing then to explain things to a real newb as me (brings me to my
point if someone could let me know if they would be willing to consult me on its
usage). I found Presence Awareness to almost give this, but the xajax
application slowed down my server and there wasn't any way I could find to
instant message the people on my site. I did find that PM posted that you
can put (:presence:) and it would show the authors on your site, but again there
are no IM capabilities. Does someone have a suggestion
here?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=107353712-22082008>3. I would
like to make my site as user friendly as possible, because it will touch on a
huge variety of people (kids from 4 years old until adults of 65!). So, I
was hoping there would be some sort of recipe that would allow me to make my
custom templates more user friendly for people that have less technical skills
than a lizard. ;-) So, the concept would be that a template
would show up for someone to fill in the information into, however it wouldn't
show up in text format as it does when you click on "edit" but it would show
some boxes where people could just fill in information quite
easily.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=107353712-22082008>Thank you to
everyone for your help and suggestions. Any help will help me out
greatly.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chris </FONT></DIV>
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