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Features of OmShaadiOm.Org- The Fully FREE Open Source alternative to PAID Matrimony

OmShaadiOm.Org is a totally free matrimonial website. The site is made using free, but robust and time-tested open source technologies and will always remain totally free. Why pay for a matrimonial service when you do not pay for your world class email account, your world class facebook/orkut account?

Sign-Up process is easy. It takes 2 minutes to sign-up and at the most 5 minutes to activate your account and fill in your details.
The site contains most exhaustive power search options ever seen by any Indian Matrimonial website. You may search by
- Religion,
- Age,
- Caste,
- Mangalik Status,
- Location (Locality, City, State, and Country),
- Interest(s), Hobbies,
- Income / Salary,
- Profession / Job Type,
- Educational Qualifications,
- Height,
- Weight,
- Languages Spoken,
- Relationship Status (Single / Divorced / Widower),
- Zodiac Sign,
- Ethnicity,
- Complexion,
- Eye Colour,
- Hair Colour,
- Body Art,
- Life Style,
- Sense of Humour etc.
- – Any, All or Some of the above search criteria.
You may also perform searches using Google Earth which is integrated with the website (See the training videos for details). What happens is that all your prospective matches will be shown on Google Maps with their respective locations. All you need to do is click on the Map to see their details. You may zoom in or out of the map to any level. This is definitely a very good option and is not offered by any contemporary Indian matrimonial website. These websites charge us a fortune and do not offer us any service. They even keep a count of number of people you can contact, which beyond doubt is a policy that is not appreciated by all the users.
You may also find members within x kms radius of your location. This has been achieved by using latitude-longitude co-ordinates of the pin codes.
The website contains very interesting forums where all the users can discuss a number of matrimonial and relationship issues. You are automatically signed up in the forums and can post topics, reply to topics, discuss events, send private messages to other members, chat etc. In case you do not understand how the forums work, then the site has a number of training videos that teach you the working of the forums. In any case, in this IT age, it is mandatory for everyone to understand the working of forums to make optimum utilisation of the Internet. Again, this feature is not offered by contemporary matrimonial website that charge us for services.
All members on omshaadiom.org are bloggers by default. All members can post messages and manage their own blogs. The blogs are integrated with the profiles of the members. So, if you are a blogger, and your prospective match looks at your profile, then he or she will also get to know you better by reading your blogs. Henceforth, the blogs will help you out in searching for your soul-mate. In case, you are new to blogging, or if you do not understand blogging, then omshaadiom.org teaches you the finer details of blogging using training videos. Similarly, people will also get to know you better by reading your posts in forums. The interface offered for blogging is very lucid and is as easy as offered by any other blogging website.
The website offers you Instant Messengers, where all the users who are online may contact each other and exchange ideas.
The website offers you Flash Chat, having a number of chat rooms (presently, this feature has been disabled, but members may still chat in the forums).
The website also offers a shout box, where members may shout cast their opinions, quick and easy (Presently, the shout box has been removed as I thought it was slowing down the system).
The website offers calendars, where the user may enter and update events and reminders.
Members may send and receive messages, express interest in each other, maintain their friend list, banned list, hot list, change password, edit their profiles – all features offered by any contemporary matrimonial website are in built. The only difference is that, all these features are available absolutely free of cost.
The website is made by a school teacher using free time tested open source technologies (Linux Operating System, Apache Webserver, PHP programming, MySQL Database. No Microsoft or other proprietary technologies are involved). The website is presently hosted on shared hosting (which is cheap, but I may change the webhost if speed does not improve ).
Once The number of members reach 1 lakh, I will move onto a dedicated server for better speed. In any case, I am working on a very good interface with AJAX, which will require better and more reliable server speeds.
I sincerely hope that you will find your soul mate on OmShaadiOm.Org. Please do advertise for this website, by forwarding this mail to all your contacts.
Please go onto http://www.omshaadiom.org to sign up, or
Please go to http://www.omshaadiom.org/tutorial/ to take tutorial / training videos.