Code free social networking web design

Elgg

Elgg won the award for the best social networking platform in 2008, so no doubt about the availability of this software. Elgg is a powerful software, offering features blog, circle, community, gathering information by compiling the feed, and file sharing features. In fact, Elgg is one of the most versatile software offers you almost everything you need to start a social networking site.

Elgg works on LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), and easy to install and configure. With a little knowledge of PHP, you can create a social networking site at any time.

Before installation, be sure to check out the demo site of Elgg.
Mahara

Unlike the rest of the social networking software, which is intended for general purpose use, Mahara is designed as a platform can help users through the process of lifelong learning, skills and development , to selective audiences. Mahara, you can create an electronic records platform e-Portfolio and an online learning community. Mahara’s features include blogs, resume builder, file management, detailed instructions and social networks so that you can add and maintain a list of friends.

Mahara running on LAMP, although Postgres be preferred over MySQL.

View demo site Mahara
Lovd by Less

Lovd by Less is one of the few open source social networking platform was first built on the Ruby on Rails. Features of Lovd by Less including blogs, annotated photo gallery, find friends on the site, activity and send updates between users together. Other possibilities can be integrated into Flickr, and YouTube.

Good point of Lovd by Less is easy to use and has many applications you need most. For those who prefer Ruby on Rails to PHP, then this is a good alternative.

Demo of Lovd by Less
Extended Xoops with Yogurt

XOOPS CMS is an extensible help you build the site according to the needs. You can start a blog and then can be extended including social networks, forums, and more by using the appropriate module.

Yogurt is a special module that helps you to build a social networking site with XOOPS. You can create personal photo album, videos from YouTube, MP3 music, and friends list, the message to the public (Scraps) to create communities (tribes) and many other useful features.

XOOPS and Yogurt is built by PHP and runs fine on LAMP environment.

AROUNDMe

AROUNDMe slightly different than other software. Instead of building a social network site, it helps you create your own collaboration server so that your users can create social networking sites, community or their own webspace, like Ning, Google Groups , Snappville, CollectiveX.

With AROUNDMe, your users can access the guestbook, blogs, groups, forums and wiki pages. Every single group can fully customizable using xHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and the user can decide which group is private or public.
The other candidate

Phpizabi: Works fine on a small scale, but will have much larger errors when the network started.
Dolphin: It can be downloaded free of charge, but you will have to pay to remove the ad module.
Insoshi: A new social network, built with Ruby on Rails, released in early April this year. It might be better if the features are more elaborate.