How Groups are Organised
To crate a group on OnlineGroups.Net you first have
to
start a site.
The groups of our customers are placed in
sites,
so the groups are
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Easy to find,
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Easy to style, and
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Easy to manage.
All the OnlineGroups.Net sites are hosted by
OnlineGroups.Net.
By default all the sites have the same styling as
OnlineGroups.Net, the name of the site is followed by "Online
Groups", and the domain of the site (the address) is also
followed by OnlineGroups.Net.
However, this does not need to be the case: the following
image shows the groups that are visible on three sites that
use OnlineGroups.Net:
GroupServer.Org
Biodiversity
OnlineGroups and
Apapa Online.
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GroupServer.Org has three groups that are visible
to the public; while the site is part of OnlineGroups.Net it
does not have any branding from OnlineGroups.Net, and it
sits under a different domain.
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This contrasts with the Biodiversity Online Groups site,
which uses a subdomain of OnlineGroups.Net
(biodiversity.onlinegroups.net)
as well as the default styling and site naming scheme.
When you start a site, it will look like Biodiversity Online
Groups at first.
While most of the groups on Biodiversity Online Groups are
private, two groups are public:
Titoki
and
Banks
Diversity.
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The final site shown in the above image — Apapa Online
— has no groups that are visible to the public, but it
does have a number of documents that are stored on
OnlineGroups.Net and are available to the public.
Apapa Online does not use the default OnlineGroups.Net style,
and it uses its own domain, rather than using a subdomain of
OnlineGroups.Net like biodiversity.
OnlineGroups.Net has
groups itself, such as
OnlineGroups.Net
Administrators
and
Demo,
but all
our clients have their own
sites.