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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