Online Applications > Forums & Message Boards
Web-bulletin is an integrated solution allowing you to run a Discussion Forum or a Bulletin Board directly on your web site. Web-bulletin works as a central place for members of your online community or your customers to interact with each other, engage in discussions, share their experiences, discuss the information presented on your web site, and provide you with valuable feedback.
Discussion forum is a great tool for creating common-interest communities – from cars to wine to art. Such communities offer a special bond for people with the same interests and views, and build a dedicated and long lasting following. Discussion forums have also been proven to be excellent tools for sales and customer support.
Web-bulletin automates and facilitates running of online communities and allows site administrators to manage entire discussion forums, users, services, and features through a centralized Administrative Console.
Web-bulletin seamlessly integrates into the Web-Portal Platform that contains the core functionality necessary for running dynamic web sites.
Additional services can be introduced through the seamless integration of Web-Portal modules: directory of links or resources (Web-link) and news services (In-newz).
Web-bulletin HIGHLIGHTS [Back To Top]
- Built-in Post Editors
- Moderators of Multiple Tiers
- Multiple Forums
- User Avatars
- User Signatures
- Unlimited Custom Fields
- Unlimited Topic Images
- Unlimited Related Items
- Advanced Permissions
- Hierarchical and Chronological Views
- Automatic User Banning
- Unlimited Topic-related Images
- Word Censorship
- Emoticons Management
- Integrated Support for Other Modules
- Posts with HTML Markup
- Posts with BB-Code Markup
- Favorite Topics
Web-bulletin Demo & Features
Besides being packed with all of the features offered by most online forums, Web-bulletin integrates seamlessly with the core Web-Portal Platform services, and other Web-Portal modules. This allows for centralized user management and data-sharing, making Web-bulletin a perfect tool for engaging your users in discussing any information on your site: from your products and services, to Internet resources and news articles.
FRONT END USER EXPERIENCE [Back To Top]
WebNet’s Web-bulletin guarantees your users the most satisfying experience of engaging in dialog with other users, sharing their thoughts and information, and becoming an integral part of the community on your web site. User services offered by Web-bulletin, allow users to maintain their own profiles, avatars, signatures and favorites. Chronological and hierarchical topic views allow for easy viewing of topics and posts on the forum. Your users will appreciate Web-bulletin’s extended searching capabilities, emoticons, ability to rate topics and use HTML and BB-code to mark up their posts.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE [Back To Top]
The administrative tools of Web-bulletin through the central Administrative Console allow managing the community on your web site. Administrators of the site can categorize forums and topics to keep discussions organized by subject. The word censorship feature guarantees cleaner content on your web site, allowing you to run family-friendly communities. Emotions (“smileys”) management allows you to enhance your web site users’ experience. Moderators of multiple tiers, automatic user banning and advanced and flexible permissions, will all allow you to run and manage the online community according to the purpose of your web site and your preferences.
In-Bulletic Product Overview
Web-bulletin allows you to run a community directly on your site. Discussion forums have been proven to generate a steady flow of repeat traffic to web sites and are powerful tools for your customers to interact with each other or with you.
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT [Back To Top]
Many community sites that are built around discussion boards are experiencing the frustration of running and managing their web sites using collections of detached scripts. Often, these scripts are created by different vendors and utilize incompatible technologies. Most web developers are familiar with the difficulties of integrating such scripts into web sites or making them work with each other.
Web-bulletin was designed to solve this problem by offering site administrators a single, centralized environment for running and managing online communities and services. With the help of Web-bulletin, community sites can now benefit from centralized functions, such as template management, catalog, user management, database services, access permissions, security services, multiple languages, etc.
Web-bulletin Demo & Feature
Besides being packed with all of the features offered by most online forums, Web-bulletin integrates seamlessly with the core Web-Portal Platform services, and other Web-Portal modules. This allows for centralized user management and data-sharing, making Web-bulletin a perfect tool for engaging your users in discussing any information on your site: from your products and services, to Internet resources and news articles.
FRONT END USER EXPERIENCE [Back To Top]
WebNet’s Web-bulletin guarantees your users the most satisfying experience of engaging in dialog with other users, sharing their thoughts and information, and becoming an integral part of the community on your web site. User services offered by Web-bulletin, allow users to maintain their own profiles, avatars, signatures and favorites. Chronological and hierarchical topic views allow for easy viewing of topics and posts on the forum. Your users will appreciate Web-bulletin’s extended searching capabilities, emoticons, ability to rate topics and use HTML and BB-code to mark up their posts.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE [Back To Top]
The administrative tools of Web-bulletin through the central Administrative Console allow managing the community on your web site. Administrators of the site can categorize forums and topics to keep discussions organized by subject. The word censorship feature guarantees cleaner content on your web site, allowing you to run family-friendly communities. Emotions (“smileys”) management allows you to enhance your web site users’ experience. Moderators of multiple tiers, automatic user banning and advanced and flexible permissions, will all allow you to run and manage the online community according to the purpose of your web site and your preferences.
Web-bulletin Technical Requirements
Web-bulletin requires Web-Portal Platform – a free system that installs on your web site and contains the core functionality that is necessary for running dynamic web sites. The platform performs all of the common services, such as Category and User administration, and handles data sharing and communications between all modules such as Web-bulletin.
All of the functions and services of Web-bulletin and the Web-Portal Platform are managed through a web browser. The administrator needs a web browser and an Internet connection to be able to work with Web-bulletin and the Web-Portal Platform.
The actual site running Web-bulletin on the Web-Portal Platform needs to reside on a web server. Web-bulletin and the Web-Portal Platform are designed to run on most hosting platforms – both virtual accounts and dedicated servers. Should you have any questions regarding a particular hosting platform or configuration, please don’t hesitate to contact us. WebNet International, Inc. also provides hosting accounts that are optimized specifically for use with Web-Portal and its modules.
USER-SIDE SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS [Back To Top]
Since the front end of the system is completely template based, its compatibility with various browsers depends on the implementation by the site administrator. The default theme supplied with Web-bulletin is compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 and higher, and Mozilla version 1.5 and higher.
The Administrative Console requires Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5, Mozilla 1.6 or higher with Java Script enabled, in order to be able to utilize all of its features. You may be able to use older browsers; however, your experience may be limited, as older browsers do not support all of the technologies utilized by the Administrative Console.
SERVER-SIDE SOFTWARE AND ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS [Back To Top]
Web-Portal Platform and all of its modules have the same server requirements.
As of version 1.0.4, Web-Portal Platform has the following server requirements:
- OS: Microsoft Windows 2000, XP Pro, 2003; Linux (most flavors); FreeBSD, BSDi, Sun Solaris 7 and higher.
- Web Server: IIS 5.0 or higher, or Apache 1.3 or higher. The Web Server must support PHP 4.1.x or higher.
Database: MySQL 3.23 or higher
- Space Usage: 10 MB for the files, and 1 MB for the database for an empty installation. Thereafter, the database space usage is, on average, 0.5KB per 1 database record (Each record is a separate Category, Item, User, etc.).
SERVER-SIDE HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS [Back To Top]
The server hardware requirements are dependent on the actual web site, its traffic, the load on the server, the software installed and the optimization of all components. If you have questions regarding your particular site please contact us to determine your scalability requirements. For questions related to compatibility, technical requirements and performance, please contact us at support@WebNet.com. |
