This
free award winning Forum system software,
can add value to almost any web site.
Whether you are building
a small interactive community with 10
people or over 100,000 strong customer
support forum, this fast, scalable,
bulletin board engine can manage your
community.
What
is a Forum
A forum is similar to
a supported module. In other words,
a public message center. Through forums
the users can post messages, either
to a group at large or to certain users.
However, all postings can be seen by
anyone else who has access to that forum,
so refrain from sharing secret informations
among each other.
Forums are also threaded,
which means a reply to a particular
posting becomes part of the "thread"
of that posting that can be followed
to provide a cohesive progression through
a particular topic. You can get the
references of your previous postings
as well.
Some
advantages of forums:
1) Forums facilitates
exchange of ideas and informations.
There are forums based on topics on
which one can login in order to share/get
informations from others. Its acts like
a big virtual information centre.
2) Forums are the platform
where the like minded people meet. you
can have a forum based on your subject
matter as well. One can cultivate their
hobby through forums. Informations on
wide range of topics are discussed through
the forum.
3) It plays an important
role in attracting traffic. Visitors
will visit your website in order to
see the update of the forums. It is
also found that people come back to
the site in order to view a discussion
on some interesting topic as well. Forums
makes the visitors to come back to your
website again and again.
4) Forums can be faster,
cheapest and the most effective way
of promotion. the forum administrator
can send messages to all those who are
using the forum. If you are selling
something new through your website,
then you can intimate all the forum
members immediately.
5) Forum helps in business
creation as well. The website owner
can advertise about his latest products
and services to all the forum members.
As the membership of the forum grows
the strength of the advertising impact
goes increasing.
6) A direct source of
revenue is the selling of banner ads.
The revenue produced by this is directly
related to the number of members on
the forum.
These are the advantages
of using forums. There are forums which
links back to the website and hence
helps in generating fresh content to
the website thereby enhancing the website
ranking on the search engine.
Interfaces
|
Forums and
Categories |
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Topic Posts
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Private messenger
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Forum Topic
List |
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RTE WYSIWYG
Post Editor |
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Admin and
Setup Area |
