Version 2 website
XOOPS is getting a hold in the Danish online media publishing. After fyens.dk, fyn.dk, computerworld.dk and pcworld.dk, version2.dk has also based their website on the XOOPS platform.

The main developers of the site and article and blog portions were the people behind sites such as http://fyens.dk, http://fyn.dk and http://gulgratis.dk

Cusix Software were contracted to supply a whitepaper download section and an IT encyclopedia as well as a small Flash video playback plugin for Version2's articles.

Whitepapers

Whitepapers are documents supplied (usually) by commercial entities, outlining or explaining concepts and products central to their commercial offerings.

Version2 wanted a library of whitepapers for their users to download, registering who downloads which whitepapers, so the whitepaper supplier can make enquiries afterwards.

The solution is a standard module for XOOPS, organising whitepapers into categories and allowing suppliers to log in to the website and manage their available whitepapers. This module goes by the name of Cordemanon and is available for free download in the download section of Cusix XOOPS development.

Encyclopedia

Version2 is a part of Ingeniøren, a publishing company that previously had a book publishing division, too. Some years ago, they published an IT encyclopedia with more than 4000 definitions of IT words. This seemed like an obvious choice for adding interesting content to the version2.dk website.

Utilising the power of the Internet and the collaborative nature of a wiki, the encyclopedia is now available for all to read and for the registered users to edit on http://www.version2.dk/leksikon

The solution in use is a MediaWiki module for XOOPS, ported by long term XOOPS developer phppp. However, version2.dk uses a custom user profile and registration module, so some customisation of phppp's work had to be done by Cusix Software, just as certain design tasks were needed to get the layout, Version2 wanted for the section.

WebTV

As a small footnote, Cusix Software also implemented a small-scale Flash video playback plugin for the article module on version2.dk, allowing news writers and bloggers to add video files to articles. This is now expanded to also include full-screen screencasts as SWF files.