Publisher review:Active Resource Index allows you to Create A Web-Based Directory like YAHOO, ALTAVISTA and other large complex sites easily. Create A Web-Based Directory like YAHOO, ALTAVISTA, and other large complex sites easily. Just a few categories and a couple settings and you have built a website that is categorically organized.
Each category uses unique settings so you may have multiple listing options from a single site. Move, Edit, Delete categories, sub-categories, entries and reviews easily using the simple web interface.
Benefits
- Create a Professional Looking Site Easily
- Target Specific Web Users or Groups
- Draw Huge Traffic with Very Little Work
- Manage Your Entire Site from the Web.
- Let your Users Bring Rich Content
- Maintain Your Site Easily
- Present New Information Regularly
- Get Paid for Easily Maintainable ADs/AD Banners
- Organize Your Site Categorically.
- Create a Web Community Quickly.
Features:
Create Category Hierarchies easily.
Visually create category hierarchies using the web based administrative interface. This lets you move, edit, and delete categories up or down various levels and each category up and down the tree is automatically updated according to the contents down the lower levels.
A Different Look for each category.
Each category you create uses it's own settings this lets you customize the look and feel for each category as well as the default home (master) category.
Custom HTML for each category.
Add custom HTML at the top or bottom (header and footer) of the category to allow you to put links and other information for your home site.
Turn ON/OFF left and right columns Turn left or right columns on or off to make room or add features. This is typically used for ADs or to display side categories for navigation.
Background Images and Colors
Change colors or background images to the designated areas as in the manual. Title, Heading, Left, Center, Right and Footer. To provide each category a unique look.
Categories for Left & Right columns
Choose to display categories or sub-categories on the left or right columns along with custom html. This is ideal if you wish to clear up the center column to use the left or right sides as navigation.
Categories for Center column
Choose to display categories, sub-categories, or descriptions to the designated center of your display area. This is the typical look of an resource index.
Select Number of Sub-Categories to display
Choose the number of sub-categories to display for left, center and right columns. Typically this is three (3) to four (4).
Number of Center columns to display for your categories - Choose the number of columns to display your categories within. Anywhere from 1 through 8 should be visually appealing depending on your category names, html, or image sizes.
Category Icons & Names
Change or enter HTML before categories to display special or featured categories. This allows you to put folder icons (any html) before each category name.
Side Sub-Categories before and after marks
Add HTML before or after side categories and sub-categories to visually show lower level entries. Each category may have a set icon for the sub-categories it will display. This is typically used as for files icons.
Searching Features
Search by "category tree" below, or the entire index using keywords entered by the user to more accurately retrieve related keywords specified by that user and to improve speed.
Tools to help maintain the database via the web.
If your database becomes inaccurate use tools to update anyour datayour database and hierarchies. This will allow you not to need to download the entire database in the event it becomes corrupt or inaccurate.
Copy and Paste
Copy and Paste settings from one category to another. You can also perform updates to all categories below the particular level.
Turn off center categories, results, sub-categories, totals, new icons.
Allows you to prepare a category for HTML only by turning off all categories, results, sub-categories, totals, and new icons. This is good to represent the typical site or documentation within ARI.
Center AD or Custom HTML
Enter Custom HTML for use as a center ad or to enter HTML specific to this particular page. This may be used to display a standard HTML page powered by ARI updatable by the web.
Active Resource Index 1.2 is a ASP script for Link Indexing scripts design by gateserver.com.
It runs on following operating system: Windows.
Operating system:Windows
Active Resource Index 1.2 script details 
