Forum

Hosting a forum is a great way for your site users to share opinions and communicate with each other. It also contributes fresh and engaging content to your site via active discussion between the participants. A forum can be used at any time since it does not require the participants to be online simultaneously. It is relatively easy to jump into the middle of a discussion topic and “pick up the thread” to continue the discussion. Having a popular discussion topic, whether it is based on a current news event or marketing campaign, can result in repeat traffic from people who are interested in the topic. Just visit any popular forums, and you will find frequent participation by a number of people. For some businesses, a forum is also your support assistant. Your customers can help you address many of the commonly experienced issues on a volunteer basis. This community-based support system will save you time and money. 

What you can do:
• Host a Web-based discussion forum on your site
• Create themed forums with multiple categories
• Allow an unlimited number of topics in each forum
• Allow members to post replies and start new topics
• Display statistical details for forum usage
• Post text, photos, and/or hyperlinks as forum content
• Broadcast your forum contents via RSS feed
• Notify you when there is a new posting in a forum
• Manage postings with simple point-and-click actions
• Manage forum categories
• Perform selective or full database backup and restore
• Allow static HTML display, required by Adsense
• Customize frontend text and language