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| | End-User Features | - Unlimited number of groups, forums, posts, moderators, admins and members
- Flexible permissions display / hide forums based on member group
- Rich-Text WYSIWYG editor or standard editor based on browser compatiblity
- Multi-lingual spell checker for ensuring error free posts
- Mutliple file attachments with mime-type check for both posts and PM's
- Private messaging between members with email notifications
- Registration confirmation system ensuring valid email addresses
- Registration process will remember original action ensuring seamless login
- RSS 2.0 feeds for each forum and members private messages
- Basic and advanced forum search with various filter options
- Rate topics with average rating displayed in real-time within forum
- Display posts from last visit, 12 hours, 24 hours or 48 hours
- Display most popular or most active forum posts
- Support for moderated and unmoderated forums
- Support for fully locked or partially locked forums
- Forum moderators can approve, edit or delete posts within assigned forums
- Full email notification system during post approval process
- Admin and moderator posts are automatically approved
- Fully searchable alphabetical members list
- Members profiles including personal info, optional avatar and photograph
- Avatar & photograph upload with MIME type and image size validation
- Optional automatic image resizing for avatar and photograph
- Members can edit or delete previous replies within the forums
- Member and guest activity for entire forum and each forum displayed
- Subscribe to forums and receive email notifications for new posts
- Subscribe to topics and receive email notifications for new posts
- Email other forum members from within forum
- Subscribe to all topics from a member or all topics a they have posted within
- Specify default forum skin, board timezone and WYSIWYG settings
- Easily create a global message signature
- Manage private messages within control panel
- Manage topic and forum subscriptions within control panel
- Members buddy & ignore lists within control panel
- Send topics via email to friends or fellow forum members
- Printer friendly versions of topics available
- Filter forums by date range or amend sort order of messages
- Multiple search options. By member or group, sort & display options
- Specify a topic icon to represent the type of post
- Online status of members indicated next to posts
- Ranking system shows members level within forums
- New posts since your last visit are highlighted
- Email password request feature
- Ability to quote messages within a thread
- Extended IM contact and email information below each post for author
- Emoticons integrated directly into WYSIWYG editor
- Users can login automatically, using encrypted cookies
- Forgot password email reminder feature
- Registration system remembers users original action
- Ability to preview posts & PM's before submitting
- Intuative Yahoo! type forum navigation
- Malicious JavaScript and VBScript protection
- Extendable forum skinning with PSD files and documented CSS
- Friendly, eloquent customizable user interface
| | Admininistration Features | - Web-based administration & moderation control panel
- Application & database table statistics
- Support for multiple administrators and moderators
- Easily assign members administration or moderation rights
- Create, sort or delete forum groups / categories
- Create, sort or delete forums with just a few clicks
- Locked, pinned, partially locked, moderated and unmodered forums
- Organsize and sort forums into forum groups / categories
- Optional auto approve moderation level for each forum
- Ability to assign forum members as moderators for specific forums
- Ability to assign forum members as administrators
- Moderators have access to approve or edit posts within their assigned forums
- Moderators receive email alerts when there forum(s) receives posts
- Moderators have the ability to edit posts within there forums
- Reply notifications sent upon approval of moderated posts
- Edit or delete posts or posts awaiting moderation
- Manage attachments assoicated with a post
- Mark posts as pinned or an announcement
- Safely move posts around within the forums
- Control the default date cut-off for each forum
- Control the default sort column for each forum
- Control the default sort order for each forum
- Create and manage members groups
- Edit member profiles and assoicate members with membre groups
- Control which forum groups or forums are visible to which member groups
- Ban a member from making further posts within the forum
- Ban IP addresses from registering on the forums
- XML based offensive language filter
- Posts awaiting moderation alert on homepage
- ASP.NET form validation to ensure data integrity
- User passwords encrypted within the database
- Ability to quickly populate forums with test data
- Referential integrity within the database is ensured at all times
- Application settings can be easily modified centrally within the web.config file
- Namespace conventions ensure intuitive easy use of the forums API
- Table and stored procedure naming conventions ensure no conflicts
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Please note: Requires ASP.NETv1.1 on Windows Web Hosting with an SQL Server Database |
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