Website Toolbox Review - General Features & Requirements

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Web Site: http://www.websitetoolbox.com/
Download here: Download Website Toolbox
Community Forum: Support
Released under: GPL License.
Current version: Hosted. (April 25, 2009).
Sponsored By: Website Toolbox, Inc.
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

Server & Clients Requirements

Server Requirements
Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
No.
Web Server Details
Web servers host the forum software.
No.
Languages Details
Development language.
No.
Databases Details
Systems that store forum datas.
No.
Browsers & Clients Requirements
Compatible Browsers Details
List of compatible browsers.
  • Mozilla Firefox 3
  • Mozilla Firefox 2
  • Mozilla Firefox 1
  • Opera
  • Safari
  • Konqueror
  • Internet Explorer 7
  • Internet Explorer 6
  • Chrome
  • Mozilla SeaMonkey
Required Plugins/Technologies Details
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
  • HTML and Javascript
Localization Details
Languages supported by Website Toolbox.
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
Social Networks
Users can share information from their social network account...
No.
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
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.
Unknown Unknown
Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
No No
Shadow Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
Yes Yes
Posts
Post Editing Form Details
Details about the manner to post messages.
  • Plain Text
  • WYSIWYG Editor
  • Rich Text Editor
  • Formatting Buttons
Emoticons Details Yes Yes
Post Editing Format Details
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
  • Plain
  • HTML
  • BBCode
Attachments Details
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
Yes Yes
Post Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
Yes Yes Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
No No
Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
No No

Key Features & Additional Tools

Key Features
Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
  • Website Home Page
Users List Details
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
Yes Yes
Private Messages Details
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 Details
Users can communicate in the forum like in other IM softwares (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk, AIM,...)
Yes Yes Quick Reply Box
Write a post directly from the topic page.
Yes Yes
Calendar Details Yes Yes Remote Control Details
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
No.
Poll Creation Details Yes Yes Friendly URLs
URLs are as short and simple as possible (for better copy/paste and share).
Yes Yes
RSS/Atom Syndication Details
New posts and threads available using aggregators (represented by the Syndicate icon)
RSS 2.0

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

 
 
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