Website Toolbox Review - General Features & Requirements
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| Web Site: | http://www.websitetoolbox.com/ |
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| Download here: | Download Website Toolbox |
| Community Forum: | Support |
| Released under: | GPL License. |
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| 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
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Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
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Web Server 
Web servers host the forum software.
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Languages
Development language.
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Databases
Systems that store forum datas.
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No. | |
| Browsers & Clients Requirements | ||
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Compatible Browsers
List of compatible browsers.
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Required Plugins/Technologies
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
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Localization
Languages supported by Website Toolbox.
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 No.
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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
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Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
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Flat |
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Social Networks
Users can share information from their social network account...
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No. |
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Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
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No |
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Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
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Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
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 Yes |
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Spell Checking
Posts and topics are spelled checked with a dictionary.
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 Unknown |
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Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
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No |
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Shadow Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
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Yes |
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Post Editing Form
Details about the manner to post messages.
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Emoticons
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Yes |
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Post Editing Format
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
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Attachments
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
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Yes |
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Post Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
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Yes |
Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
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No |
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Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
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No |
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Key Features & Additional Tools
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Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
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Users List
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
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Yes |
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Private Messages
Users can communicate using an internal messaging system.
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Yes |
Online Users List
List of actually connected users, in the forum home page, a dedicated topic,...
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Yes |
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Instant Messaging
Users can communicate in the forum like in other IM softwares (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk, AIM,...)
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Yes |
Quick Reply Box
Write a post directly from the topic page.
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Yes |
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Calendar
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Yes |
Remote Control
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
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No. |
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Poll Creation
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Yes |
Friendly URLs
URLs are as short and simple as possible (for better copy/paste and share).
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Yes |
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RSS/Atom Syndication
New posts and threads available using aggregators (represented by the
 icon)
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The Chat Room feature is a really good idea to increase traffic of your website.
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