Client panel for my site
As a freelance developer, I deal with clients mostly by emailing them / them. It doesn't work well, but I'm thinking of a more professional approach with a client-side communication dashboard for my site. The client will basically be given a login / password and access to it to view the previews and comment on them.
It's good for me to write the application myself, but since many developers have similar things on their sites, perhaps there is some solution that I could just reuse?
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Well, I should probably explain myself a little more clearly. I am fine with showing the websites as they are well built / coded. This is just a communication and design stage that I would like to move from mail / im to some simple web application.
In theory, project management tools will do, but they are too complex and I just need simple functionality to comment (ideally in streams) and attach images. Probably will want to later, but that's all I can think of now.
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This might be too complicated already, but you can take a look at the Request Tracker: http://bestpractical.com/rt/
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"Accessing it to view the preview" would mean completely different things to different people - you probably just want to do something like a password protected viewport - if you're building websites that could live at http: // preview.example.com , for example.
There are various types of systems that can be found in the second part, although the Wiki can work, or FogBugz, or Trac.
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