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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr"> <head> <title>Boardhost: Features</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8" > <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="all" /> <script src="js/jquery-1.6.1.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script> <script src="js/jquery-func.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>  </head> <body>  <div class="shell">  <div id="header"> <h1 id="logo"><a href="/index.html">BoardHost</a></h1>  <div id="navigation"> <ul> <li><a href="/home.html" >Create yours!</a></li> <li><a href="/features.html" class="active">Features</a></li> <li><a href="/faq.html">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="/contact.html">Contact Us</a></li> </ul> <div class="cl"> </div> </div>  <div class="cl"> </div> <div class="shadow"> </div> </div>   <div class="main-holder"> <div class="main-top"> </div> <div class="main"> <div class="top"> <div class="bottom">  <div id="content"> <div class="article"> <div style="float:right;padding-top:8px;"><img src=/arrow_down.png align=absbottom> <a href=#mb>Skip to Message Board Features</a></div> <h3>Boardhost Forum Features</h3>  <table border=0 width=100%><tr><td valign=top width=50%> <h6>Your own Sub-domain!</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Your forum will have a short, easy to remember URL, such as <a href="#">https://YourName.boardhost.com/</a></p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Unlimited Categories, Forums and Sub-forums</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Divide your forum into as many separate categories as you like, each containing as many different forums and sub-forums as you like.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Unlimited Posts</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Your forum can contain as many postings as your users can type up. We won't place limits on what can be stored in your forum.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Highly Customizable Appearance</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Make your forum appear however you want it to. If you have an existing website, you can even make it match. Choose the level of editing you are most comfortable with, ranging from choosing a theme, choosing your own colors and fonts, or even choose to dive deep into editing the CSS yourself.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Custom Headers and Footers</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Add your own text or even HTML code to the top and bottom of your forum, making the customization options virtually endless.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Choose Who Accesses What</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Our forums offer a very powerful permissions system. If you want to allow the public to post to certain forums but not others it is as easy as a few clicks. Similarly, you can set up private forums that require you to be a registered member to access.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Powerful control over who can access your forum</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Want to manually review each user before they are given access? It's just a few clicks.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Control over forum content</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">If you'd like, you can also review each and every posting before it appears on your forum</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Powerful Ban System</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Easily and effectively ban abusive users by IP address, email address, username and more.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>RSS Feeds</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Your users are able to subscribe to your forum's latest postings via RSS, to help ensure they are always aware of the latest postings.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Paid Upgrades</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Need more than our free service? For as little as $13.99 a month you can remove any and all Boardhost branding and advertising from your forum.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Much More!</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">This is just a high level tour of our feature offering. There are simply too many features to list. We are confident you will be satisfied with our services. You have nothing to lose by creating a free forum just to have a look around yourself. We've made it easy, and free of charge!</p> </td><td valign=top width=50%> <img src=https://images.boardhost.com/invisible.gif height=33 width=1><br> <h6>Instant Forum Creation</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">No waiting around for someone to get back to you. After you sign up your forum will be instantly accessible and ready for you to customize!</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Reliable Remotely Hosted Service</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Your forum will be remotely hosted on our high-speed servers, which offer outstanding reliability and uptime. We will place no usage or bandwidth restrictions on your forum.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Friendly Technical Support</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Have questions about using our service or one of our features? We're here to help. Just visit our <a href="/contact.html">contact section</a> and we'll get back to you as soon as possible!</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Instant Upgrades</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">We are constantly working to improve our service. When we develop new features, they will immediately be available for you to use on your forum.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Avatars and Signatures</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">If you like, each of your users will be able to set up their own avatar (a small image that appears on each of their postings) and a signature that is added to the end of their postings.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>User Rank System</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Reward your local users who have achieved a "milestone" number of postings. You can set up an unlimited number of ranks, of which whatever title you wish will appear below a user's name. For instance, someone who has contributed 100 posts to your forum could be deemed a "Senior Member".</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Moderator Section</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Need some help keeping an eye on your forum? Ask a co-worker or fellow user to be a moderator! Moderators can edit, delete, move postings, and more.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Custom Time Zone, Date and Time Formats</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0">Choose your time zone, and then choose exactly how you want the date and time to appear on your forum. For instance, choose from "December 31, 2018" or "12/31/2018" and "1:31 pm" or "13:31".</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Word Censoring</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Easily censor words that you find innappropriate. We allow an unlimited number of censored words.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Polls!</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Your users can add a poll to their posting, allowing viewers to vote on their favorite option. This is a popular and fun option.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Private Messages</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Keep the clutter off your board by allowing your users to exchange Private Messages with each other. Available with our Paid Service Plans, each user will be given their own Inbox, capable of holding 1,000 messages to and from other forum users.</p> </td></tr> </table> <br> <img src=https://images.boardhost.com/invisible.gif height=1 width=45><img src=/diamonds_2.png align=absbottom style="margin-bottom:2px;"> Featured forum: <a href=http://flagcounter.boardhost.com/ target=_fc>Flag Counter Forum</a><br><br> <center> <font size=3><b>Ready to create a free forum? <a href="/index.html">Create yours now!</a></b></font></center> <br> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:600px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <br> <a name=mb></a> <h3>Boardhost Message Board Features</h3> <table border=0 width=100%><tr><td valign=top width=50%> <h6>Instant Message Board Creation</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">No waiting around for someone to get back to you. After you sign up your message board will be instantly accessible and ready for you to customize!</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Short Message Board URL!</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Your message board will have a short, easy to remember URL, such as <a href="#">http://members.boardhost.com/YourName/</a></p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Powerful Administration tools</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Your message board includes access to the Boardhost Administration area, where you can customize and control every aspect of your board. Remove postings, lock and unlock threads, edit postings, ban IP addresses, view posting logs and much more. You can even make Administrative postings which are locked to the top of your message board.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Co-Administration Area</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Have a co-worker or fellow user that can help you out? Give them access to the co-administration area, where they can remove postings, and more. It is completely up to you which features they would be able to control on your board.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Generous Message Limits</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Although your message board can receive unlimited postings, there is a limit to the number of postings it can hold at once. Our standard limit is 2,500 messages and our paid service plans can increase this to 10,000 and even add a 100,000 message archive. When this limit is exceeded, older threads are automatically removed.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Custom Headers and Footers</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Add your own text or even HTML code to the top and bottom of your message board, making the customization options virtually endless.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>RSS Feeds</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Your users are able to subscribe to your forum's latest postings via RSS, to help ensure they are always aware of the latest postings.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Instant Upgrades</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">We are constantly working to improve our service. When we develop new features, they will immediately be available for you to use on your board.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Password Protection</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Install password protection to require members to be registered before they can post or view your board. Want anyone to be able to view your board, but a username and password required in order to post messages? Not a problem. Want your board to be completely private so that you must be registered in order to even view it? Not a problem either (although restricting your board from public view requires a paid service plan subscription)</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Signatures and User Message Editing</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">If you choose to install password protection on your message board, you will also unlocked additional features. These include user message editing, and user signatures. You can choose to allow a user to edit their message after it has been posted. You can also allow a user to set up a brief signature that will be included at the end of each of their postings.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Paid Service Plans</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Need more than a free message board? Our paid service plans can remove any and all Boardhost branding and advertising from your message board, and are available for as little as $9.99 a month. </p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Much More!</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">This is just a high level tour of our feature offering. There are simply too many features to list. We are confident you will be satisfied with our services. You have nothing to lose by creating a free message board just to have a look around yourself. We've made it easy, and free of charge!</p> </td><td valign=top width=50%> <img src=https://images.boardhost.com/invisible.gif height=33 width=1><br> <h6>Threaded Message Board System</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">You won't have to read through old messages time and time again to locate the newest messages posted to your board.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Very easy to use</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">We are confident you won't find a system that is easier to use than our message boards. You can can be up and running in minutes, and if you like, your users won't even have to sign up to post. Although complicated and advanced forum systems have emerged over the years, since 1998 we have been offering easy to use, yet powerful message boards, and our customers and users love them!</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Reliable Remotely Hosted Service</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Your message board will be remotely hosted on our high-speed servers, which offer outstanding reliability and uptime. We will place no usage or bandwidth restrictions on your board.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Friendly Technical Support</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Have questions about using our service or one of our features? We're here to help. Just visit our <a href="/contact.html">contact section</a> and we'll get back to you as soon as possible!</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Message Counter</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Show the number of times a message has been viewed on your board, we offer several fun counters, or just a text display if you prefer.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Custom Time Zone, Date and Time Formats</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0">Choose your time zone, and then choose exactly how you want the date and time to appear on your message board. For instance, choose from "December 31, 2018" or "12/31/2018" and "1:31 pm" or "13:31".</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Easy Customization</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0">Want to add your own custom colors, background image, or font? We've made it extremely easy to do so. We've made it easy to make fun changes to your board too, for instance if you want to make your "Preview" button instead say "Check for errors" it's just a few clicks.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Polls!</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Your users can add a poll to their posting, allowing viewers to vote on their favorite option. This is a popular and fun option. If you prefer, you can turn off this option so that only the board owner can post polls.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Email Notifications</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Make sure someone who posts a message comes back to read their replies! This option will place a checkbox underneath the posting form allowing that user to be notified by email of all replies to their message.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Allow HTML in Postings</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">It's up to you. HTML enabled posts can allow your visitors to have a lot of fun, using <b>bold</b>, or <font color="red">c</font><font color="orange">o</font><font color="blue">l</font><font color="orange">o</font><font color="red">r</font><font color="blue">f</font><font color="green">u</font><font color="orange">l</font> text, <i>italics</i>, including images, the possibilities are endless.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Easy link and image posting</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Don't know or want to bother with HTML? Don't worry, you can enable "Link" and "Image" fields for posting to your board, making it simple for users to add a link or image to their posting. You board will also automatically hyperlink any links inserted to a posting.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Thread order choice</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Choose whether threads on your board are sorted by the order in which they are posted, or sorted by their most recent activity. With the latter, when someone replies to a posting near the end of your board, it will instantly be placed back at the top, so that everyone sees it.</p> <div style="padding-top:10px;width:280px;border-bottom:1px dashed #999999;height:1px;"></div><br> <h6>Private Messages</h6> <p style="margin:10px;padding:0;">Keep the clutter off your board by allowing your users to exchange Private Messages with each other. Available with any Paid Service Plan, private messaging gives each user their own Inbox, capable of holding 500 messages to and from other message board users.</p> </td></tr> </table> </div> <br> <center><font size=3><b>Ready to create a free message board? <a href="/index.html?mb">Create yours now!</a></b></font></center> <br><br> </div>   <div id="sidebar"> <div class="box"> <ul> <li><a href="/index.html">Create a Free Forum</a></li> <li><a href="/features.html">Boardhost Features</a></li> <li><a href="/faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li> <li><a href="/contact.html">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="/terms.html">Terms of Service</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div class="cl"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="main-bottom"> </div> </div>  </div>   <div id="footer">  <div class="shell"> <div class="cl"> </div> <h6>Links</h6> <ul> <li class="first" ><a href="http://administration.boardhost.com">Administration Area</a></li> <li><a href="/plans.html">Service Plans</a></li> <li><a href="http://listings.boardhost.com/">Board Listings</a></li> </ul> <div class="cl"> </div> <h6></h6> <ul> <li class="first" ><a href="/terms.html">Terms of Service</a></li> <li><a href="/privacy.html">Privacy Policy</a></li> <li><a href="/dmca.html">DMCA</a></li> </ul>  <div class="cl"> </div> <div style="float:right;" align=right><a href="/index.html"><img src="/css/images/boardhostbw.png" style="padding-right:5px;"></a><br><div style="font-size:11px; padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;color: #858585;">Copyright © <strong>Boardhost.com, Inc.</strong> All Rights Reserved.</div></div> </div>  </div>  </body> </html>