At Forwardslash
Design we provide customized Forums. Our forum features:
Security
- Designed with security as a priority
- Powerful and extensive authorization
system
- Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
- Support
for both cookie and URI-based sessions
Unlimited Forums & Categories
- Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you
like
- Private forums and those only for specified user groups
- Powerful search facility
Posting Messages
- Message formatting with various font styles and
sizes as well as allowing quoting, code display, image posting and
automatic URL linking
- Support of standard and extended BB Code tags
and controlled HTML tags
- Polls can be simply added to posts
- Email notification of replies
to your topics
- Powerful topic subscription capability
- Original emoticons to portray
emotions
Versatile User Groups & Forum Permissions
- Powerful forum, user
and group permission management
- Control forum access to specified
user groups
- Control all aspects of the posting experience
- Allow limited access
to viewing, posting, replying and many other options
Member Features
- Unlimited members
- Personal profile creation
- Post counting and administrator-definable
ranks for users
- Email-like private messaging system
- Supports local, remote and
uploadable avatars
Moderation Features
- Topic editing
- Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
- Topic splitting
- Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages
on a per-forum basis
Easy to Use Administration Centre
- General configuration
- Forum & category setup
- Easy database backup and restore
- Disallowed usernames
- User authorization
- Word censoring
- Complete member management
- Emoticon setup
- Optional account verification
- Extensive ban management, ban by
email address, username or single/multiple IP address or hostname
- IP
tracking of posts and posters
- Mass emailing of groups and users by
the administrator
Style and Customization
- Multiple styles available for the user to choose from
- Templates
separated from the PHP code so that new layouts can easily be created
or integrated with your current site design
- Complete control of fonts
and colors with cascading style sheets (CSS)
- Active community creating
add-ons and specialized modifications
- Default style compliant with
XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C