How to make a forum?
Making a forum can reveal itself really easy, if you choose the right host to make a forum!
After searching for a long time the right host, I finally settled my community on Forumotion, the best free forum host I could find on the web.
If you need to be convinced, let me introduce you all their features and services before to make a forum.
Features and benefits to make a forum
- Create and modify categories forum
- Create and modify forums
- Define one or more co-administrators, which will help / assist in the management of the forum.
- Create permissions for the participation in the forum,
- Custom Design Forum (colors, images ...) to make a forum special,
- Enrich your smileys and avatars gallery,
- Define your operating rules (banishment, suspending an account ...),
- Make a forum or private forums and provide access to members of your choice, depending on the configuration of the forum, validate entries
- Edit the profile of the members,
- Delete one or more members
- Sending newsletters (Mass e-mail to all members)
- Delete your forum or assign the posts to another member
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- Gallery:
- With Forumotion, you can make a forum, but also manage your gallery with categories and hierarchical albums, personal or public, and add the photos you want. Each image contained in your gallery can be commented on by users who have the right to view it. Many tools are provided to edit images (rotate, color sepia, black and white, blurÂ…) and a slide show has been made available to all users.
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- Calendar:
- Manage time on your forum. You can see the members celebrating their birthday during the current month or on a specific date. The addition of events for specific dates and opening a topic for discussion is also allowed.
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- Portal:
- Many modules are offered (a mini calendar displaying the events related to the forum, a dynamic gallery, a list of keywords searched, a fast connection module, news, a list of recent topics, a search form, surveys, statistics, and the output of the members present at their forum).
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- Add stuff:
- You can add your own custom modules
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- Sheet character:
- Make a forum and create a virtual world where each member corresponds to a character. Once defined profiles, the game can be created and the dice function gets activated
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- HTML page:
- Create static HTML pages with the content and design you want. These pages can make a forum unique, but also offer complete freedom.
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- Chatbox:
- Opportunities for reporting on the typed text are available, as well as various options such as to ban, unban, emptying the contents of the Chatbox.