Publisher review:Top Site allows you to easily run your own top site - or even multiple top sites. The top site script includes three main areas of functionality: - The user pages where your visitors can view and vote on your top site.
- The members' pages where webmasters who wish to participate in your top site can join, get their linking codes, and manage their accounts.
- An administration page (password protected of course) from which you can manage your top site.
User page features (many of which are controlled by your configuration options) include:
- Your top site can include as many web site listings as you want.
- Each web site listing includes a Title, Description, an optional Banner image, and a link to that web site.
- You can setup a list of banned words (example: offensive words or phrases) that members are not allowed to use in their Titles or Descriptions.
- You can setup a list of banned URLs (and partial URLs) that members are not allowed to use.
- You can choose whether links to your member web sites are opened in a new window or the existing browser window.
- For each web site listing, the top site automatically tracks the total number of incoming votes, the current number of incoming votes, the total number of outgoing votes, and the current number of outgoing votes.
- "Incoming" votes, are clicks on a link on a member web site leading to your top site.
- "Outgoing" votes, are clicks on your top site, leading to a member web site.
- "Total" votes, are the total number of clicks since that listing was added.
- "Current" votes, are the number of clicks since that counter was last reset (it can be reset periodically or manually).
- You can set how often the current incoming and outgoing votes are reset.
- You can specify how many of the top site listings may include banners (for example: if you have a top 50, you might only want to display banners for the top 3 listings).
- You can choose whether to include a "Site Of The Moment" listing before the main top site listings.
- If enabled the "Site Of The Moment" can be selected based on any of six criteria that you specify: - The site that most recently received an incoming vote.
- The site that most recently was sent an outgoing vote.
- The site that most recently had its current votes reset.
- The site that least recently received an incoming vote.
- The site that least recently was sent an outgoing vote.
- The site that least recently had its current votes reset.
- You can customize the layout of the top site page.
- You can order the results in the top site page by any of four different orders. - Sites with higher total incoming votes are higher ranked.
- Sites with higher total outgoing votes are higher ranked.
- Sites with higher current incoming votes are higher ranked.
- Sites with higher current outgoing votes are higher ranked.
- You can choose whether to include listings for sites with zero total incoming votes.
- You can choose whether to include listings for sites with zero current incoming votes.
- You can choose whether to pad out your top site (if there are not enough items) with "Add Your Site" links.
- You can prevent cheating by using a gateway page (when a user clicks on a voting link on one of your member's web sites, the user is sent to an intermediate page on your site before their vote is accepted).
- You can customize the layout of the gateway page.
- You can also use IP address info, and optionally cookies, for additional protection against cheating. Functions for your webmasters members (again controlled by configuration):
- Members can add their sites.
- You can be notified automatically via email when a new member joins.
- You can set whether new members are approved automatically (and thus can appear in the top site immediately) or are placed in a pending status until you have reviewed them for appropriateness.
- Members are emailed a password automatically when they add their site, and they can use this to access their account management page.
- Members can use their account management page to:
- Read a welcome message from you (you can customize this message to)
- Update their details
- Change their password
- Retrieve the voting link code to place on their sites (a text link and up to 10 banners)
- Review their voting statistics
- You can customize the appearance of the members' account management pages.
- You can set the system to notify you automatically via email when a new site joins.
Your administration functions include:
- You can review all sites, approved sites, or pending sites.
- You can see detailed information for any site, including IP logging information for incoming and outgoing votes, and even discarded duplicate votes.
- You can delete any member site.
- You can edit any member site.
- You can reset the current votes for any member site, or for all member sites.
- You can change the status for any site between pending and approved (and vice-versa).
- You can lock (or unlock site). A locked site can remain active in the top site, but the member will not be able to change their details.
- All administration functions are password protected, but for additional security you can also (optionally) restrict access to the admin screen to a computer with a specific IP address (useful if you have a fixed IP address on your network or broadband connection).
Top Site is a PHP script for Top Sites scripts design by The Webmaster's Bureau.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / BSD.
Top Site allows you to easily run your own top site - or even multiple top sites.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / BSD
Top Site script details 
