Website Toolbox Review - Forum Features & Requirements

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Current version Hosted. (April 25, 2009).
Released under GPL License.
Price Free Version, $0 - Enterprise Version 1 year / $59.95.

From Website Toolbox Website:

Increase your website's interactivity by enabling your visitors to have online discussions with one another using a message board.

Key Features:

  • Use your own domain name
  • Apply skins to instantly change the appearance
  • Upload images and files
  • Integrated live chat room, calendar, and voting polls

Message Board Benefits:

  • No Advertisements - If you choose the paid version, no ads of any kind will be shown on your message board.
  • No Programming - Easily create your own message board without any knowledge of HTML.
  • Remotely Hosted - Your message board will be kept on our high speed servers. That means no software installation, software upgrades, or headaches for you!
  • Fully Customizable - Your message board is fully customizable to match the look and feel of your website.
  • Easy Installation - Insert a link to your message board into your website and you're done!
  • Seamless Integration - Easily integrate your message board to appear as a part of your website, not a third-party add-on.
  • Superior Support - Our knowledgeable support staff is available via phone, chat, and email.
  • Robust - Our message boards are packed with the advanced features you have come to expect from today's technology.
  • Secure - Our message boards are equipped with security features that make hackers and spammers a thing of the past.
  • Scalable - From personal homepages to enterprise businesses, our message board system is built to scale to your needs. Our system currently serves over 1 billion visitors per year.
  • Free - Free and paid memberships are both available.

Website Toolbox provides also other products for your website:

  • Message Board
  • Guestbook
  • Website Poll
  • Chat Room
  • Website Statistics
  • Links Page
  • Topsite

Recommended Average Size of a Community

This chart represents the recommendation of an average community size hosted with Website Toolbox.

Website Toolbox
Community Size Average

Server & Clients Requirements

Server Requirements
Server Technology
The technology on which this forum software is based on.
Website Toolbox
is an
Hosted Service,
therefore
it does not have
any specific
Server Requirements.
Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
Web Servers
Web servers host the forum software.
Languages
Development language.
Databases
Systems that store forum datas.
Browsers & Clients Requirements
Compatible Browsers
List of compatible browsers.
Mozilla FirefoxOpera
Apple SafariKonqueror
Internet ExplorerGoogle Chrome
Mozilla SeaMonkey
Required Plugins/Technologies
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
Javascript.
Languages supported by Website Toolbox.
No No.
No.

The hosted architecture does not force us to know and consider the technologies used behind the scene. This is an advantage for beginners.

Forum Threads & Posts

Forum Threads
Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
Flat
Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
No No
Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
  • Forum Categories
  • Sub Sections
Topic Tags
Could topics be organized by tags?
- -
Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
Yes Yes
Spell Checking
Posts and topics are spelled checked with a dictionary.
- -
Related Threads
List additional topics that may be related to the current one.
- -
Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
No No
Hidden Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
Yes Yes
Posts
Message Editing Form
Details about the manner to post messages.
  • Plain Text
  • WYSIWYG Editor
  • Rich Text Editor
  • Formatting Buttons
Emoticons Yes Yes
Attachments
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
Yes Yes Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
No No
Image Attachment
How images can be attached and displayed in message posts.
No.
Post Editing Format
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
  • Plain
  • HTML
  • BBCode
Post by Email
Post to a topic directly from your email box.
- -
Message Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
No No Message Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
Yes Yes
Announcements
Administrators can post announcements that are displayed everywhere in the forum. It is even more powerful than a pinned topic.
- -

Key Features & Additional Tools

Key Features
Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
  • Website Home Page
Users List
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
Yes Yes
Private Messages
Users can communicate using an internal messaging system.
Yes Yes Online Users List
List of actually connected users, in the forum home page, a dedicated topic,...
Yes Yes
Instant Messaging
Communicate in the forum like in other IM (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk,...)
Yes Yes RSS/Atom Syndication
New posts and threads available using aggregators Syndicate
RSS 2.0
Calendar Yes Yes Remote Control
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No.
Poll Creation Yes Yes Friendly URLs
URLs are explicit and contains information about the topic (title, message,...). This is highly recommended for SEO purposes.
Yes Yes

The Chat Room feature is a really good idea to increase traffic of your website.

 
 
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