More and more businesses are using forums on their website to encourage visitors to actively take part in their website.  Not only are forums great for raw content (and so Search Engine Optimization), but they also help to make websites more 'sticky' which means that visitors stay long and even re-visit the web site.

Our forum allows all your website users to communicate together.  The forum is ideal for a User Group or Community in order to allow your website users to interact and share each others ideas and experiences.
 

How much does it cost?                                                                       

Complete Forum Website Forum websites are offered from as little as £500 and comes complete with content management so you can totally manage your forum yourself. From just £500

Forum Add-On Buy a forum add-on to enrich your current website.  We will ensure the forum matches your current website look and feel. From as little as £250

Download the Forum Admin Manual  

 
Forum Setup
 
Your forum can be set up however you want it to be including access, permissions and functionality.  You may not want non-registered visitors to post to your forum, you may want them to register before being granted access.  To take this ides one step further, you may want to make a particular forum only accessible to users you have given specific rights to.  Other users and visitors would not be able to see or post tot he forum, making it totally private.

 
All In8 Forums come witht he ability to enable or disable Avatars and Member Profiles.  These are information or images associated with the user which is displayed on that particular users posts.

 
In8 Forums have multiple levels. You can have groups of forums, forums within the groups and multiple topic and posts within those forums.  This makes our forums very versatile for everyones needs.

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Members can subscribe to a ‘thread’ and receive email notifications when someone replies or adds to that thread.  Users must then login to the website to reply to the thread.
 
Discussions
 
Your community administrator can add new discussions within your forum.  This is a good way to organise a forum effectively.

 
Filter
 
No one wants to see bad language or inappropriate subject matter, so we have included filters within the forum to ensure that it never occurs.  You can also fully moderate your forum, which means that the administrator much approve any posts before they become live on the site.

Your forum can be designed to match your website design - down to colour, font, style etc!

Basic Features:

• Unlimited Forums
• Expanded user profile - Allows your visitors to share information about themselves.
• Built in email sending to protect email addresses - No need to worry about spam spiders picking up your users email addresses.
• Manage look and feel with CSS - Customize the look and feel for the forums.
• Create moderated or open forums
• Users can subscribe to topics and forums - Users will be sent an email with details of the post. 
• Security sensitive search capabilities
• Rank user based upon number of posts - Reward and encourage forum members for participation
• Display user on-line status
• Users can upload or link to Avatars - Avatars allow forum members to add their own sense of personalization to each post they make.
• Three input options for posts - Plain Text, HTML Editor Provider
• Customizable forum statistics display
• Option to display User's Online List.
• Search Engine Optimized

• Expand/Collapse Forum Groups
• Expanded Last Post Column to offer more information
  Read/Un-read tracking
• Sort Topics and Replies by Subject, Replies, Views and Last Post
• Custom displays for quick access to "Unanswered", "Not Read" and "My Forum" topics.
• Integrated "Who's Online"
• Forum Statistics are completely customizable using replacement Tokens.
• Time Zone selection for proper Date/Time display

• Forum Settings can be managed at the group or forum level with the option for the forum to inherit the settings.
• Individual settings for each forum - Customize each forum to meet your specific needs.
• Enable or disable HTML formatted text. 
• Enable or disable uploading attachments or images.
• Close a forum temporarily.
• Choose how to display a user name - User Name, First Name, Full Name
• Option to customize information that appears next to each post using custom tags.
• Option to disable user profiles
• Templates to allow you to control how post information and emails are displayed
• User level settings include: Enable/Disable Signature, Enable/Disable Avatar, Track User, Disable Attachments, Trusted user to autoapprove moderated posts.

• Control individual forum access with Roles
• Flexible security settings allow you to control which roles can View, Read, Create,Reply, Edit, Delete, Pin, Lock, Attach and Subscribe
• Select or Create a role for moderators
• Select an individual user as the moderator of a particular forum instead of creating a new role. 

Attachments:

• Ability to store attachments in database or file system.
• Enable or Disable attachments per forum.
• Control how many attachments are allowed per forum.
• Control file types that are allowed per forum.
• Specify max file size per attachment.
• Images files are automatically displayed in-line.
• Non-images are displayed as a link to download.
• Images are automatically re-sized to your height and width parameters if specified. 
• Unlimited Forum Groups