What is Tuiyo?

Thank you for your interest in Tuiyo. Tuiyo builds dynamic and vibrant community websites on the world’s most successful Content Management System - Joomla!. With lots of inspiration from popular social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Netlog and Beboo, and twitter Tuiyo compiles a set of USEFUL and EASY to build applications to enable effective collaboration amongst Joomla Site users.

Tuiyo is not a Fork of Community Builder, JomSocial or any other networking component for Joomla! It is built from the ground-up, with unique features.

Build an on-line community like Facebook in minutes. The initial concept of Tuiyo was to try to make it look exactly like the Facebook platform. But with a lot of advice, critics and comments, there is a deal of flexibility in there, and with styles, you can build a powerful social site, to do just what you want it to do.

Highly extensible with addition of 'applications' From profile play lists, to simple to-do lists, from large group applications to group-competitions, Tuiyo Applications help you do just what your site is purposed for! The ease with which these are made make it possible for you to write your own if need be

User Relationship management. The potential of your community site lies amongst its users. To boost this potential, a simple to use user relationship application is put in place to ensure that together your sites visitors could enjoy the things they love

Photo Management. User photo gallery management. Working to implement other useful tools such as photo tagging, photo sharing and lots more

Private messaging system. There is no need for additional components to manage your private messaging. Tuiyo uses Joomla's Core messaging tables to provide with a simple action and effect messaging utility. Email notifications are sent out on every new message

Multiple Blogging component support. Tuiyo applications provide a simple alternative to very large and complex blogging components. Joomla is a very powerful CMS, and we exploit that potential. Tuiyo Articles application helps provide front end users the possibility of publish their own content to specially assigned sections of the site

Multiple Forum CMS support Fireboard, SMF, PHPBB all through the use of application or components could provide simple one point profiles for the overall site. One of the downfalls of a community site is to have multiple profiles for a single user. Tuiyo aims at bridging the gabs between the Joomla CMS and any other forum application you may be using

Language support. One of the revolutions of the Joomla 1.5 framework is language support and localization. Tuiyo profiles multilingual translation on the fly, with no needs to hard code translations

"Beautiful Design". Skin-able Profile styling enabled as an optional feature. Easy to design Templates. Beautiful interface with Pure CSS and xHTML spiced by JavaScript produce a user friendly interface. There is nothing as important on a social site as the user interface. We have got that on our minds, as we improve the component, AJAX and other technologies make the user experience even better

Improvised user front end control. Joomla as a CMS limits the amount of things a front end registered user can spend their glorious time doing on your site. With very limited front end configurations, and a very low profile permission system, users have little or pretty much nothing to do on your site! Tuiyo adds lots of front end application configuration, without necessitating very large components or hacks, so users could have their own share of making the success of the community. Front end users are not doomed to the global configuration settings of the global administrator, but unlike other social building components, Tuiyo gives full control of a user's profile to which it belongs - the user

Hardened Security. High traffic on successful social websites always brings unwanted visitors too. Here at Tuiyo; security is one of our concerns. And we work hard to test, try, hack and improve security on a regular basis, resulting in a secure component. However never take anything for granted when it comes to security. We encourage you to hack your way through the component, and if you assume any loopholes please do not refrain from notifying us.

Tuiyo has been in development since May of 2009 as continuation of the popular Joomunity component, and as you will imagine from the type of component and the goal we seek to achieve we rather take careful steps, rather than rush a stable release which serves no one right. The core features of Tuiyo are developed part-time, by a single developer. However the component benefits from a rich shower of thoughts from a vast community with great interest in the component. Hence you will never be alone on your Journey with Tuiyo