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<div class="container mb4"> <div class="w75"> <ul class="col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-sm-3"> <li class="red"><a href="forumotion-dictionary#explainAdministrate" title="Administer a forum">Administer a forum</a></li> <li class="red"><a href="forumotion-dictionary#explainadmin-panel" title="Administration Panel">Administration Panel</a></li> <li class="red"><a href="forumotion-dictionary#explainforum-pruning" title="Auto-pruning">Auto-pruning</a></li> <li class="red"><a href="forumotion-dictionary#explainavatar" title="Avatar">Avatar</a></li> <li class="red"><a href="forumotion-dictionary#explainrestore" title="Backup a forum">Backup a forum</a></li> <li class="red"><a href="forumotion-dictionary#explainban" title="Ban/banishment">Ban/banishment</a></li> <li class="red"><a href="forumotion-dictionary#explainup" title="Bump">Bump</a></li> </ul> <ul class="col-lg-3 col-md-3 col-sm-3"> <li class="red"><a href="forumotion-dictionary#explainword-Censor" title="Censorship">Censorship</a></li> <li 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id="explainAdministrate"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Administer a forum</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">Administer, manage <strong>your forum</strong></p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainadmin-panel"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Administration Panel</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">General tool which allows you to configure, manage and modify your <strong>forum</strong>.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainforum-pruning"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Auto-pruning</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">This option consists in deleting messages who haven't had any answers since X days in a specific <strong>forum</strong>. These messages cannot be recovered after this pruning, except with the procedure of <strong>forum</strong> backup. You should not activate this option anywhere and you should be sure to have the usefulness to enable it.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainavatar"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Avatar</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">An avatar is a small image which displays under the members usernames and which allows them to show their humor or represent them.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainrestore"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Backup a forum</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">It's the fact of getting back your forum to a moment when it worked well and to transfer it so that it works correctly again.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainban"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Ban/banishment</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">Expulsion of a member from <strong>your forum</strong> for various reasons: breaking the <strong>forum</strong> rules, rudeness towards a member …</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainup"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Bump</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">Bump a topic by replying, in order to have it back to top in the topic list</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainword-Censor"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Censorship</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">The censorship indicates various forms of infringements to the freedom of expression, before and/or after their publication (a priori and a posteriori censorship).</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainedit-profile"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Edit a member profile</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">With this option you can practically make everything with the profile of a member of your forum. Assign a level, change its quotation, deactivate its avatar, change its password, its login, its signature …</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainedit-message"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Edit message</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">To edit a message, you have to be either a moderator or the author of the message. Click "edit" above the message, modify the message as you wish and validate.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainflood"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Flood</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">Flood means the sending of so many messages that the inbox will be overwhelmed and will become unusable.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainhosting"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Hosting</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">Web hoster has for vocation to give Internet users web sites managed by third parties.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainaddress-ip"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">IP Address</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">An IP address ( IP for Internet Protocol) is the number which identifies every computer connected to Internet, or more generally and exactly, the network interface of any computer hardware (router, printer) connected to a computer network using the Internet Protocol.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainaddress-url"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Image address</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">Internet address. Every site possesses a unique address which you type in your browser to reach the site.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainindexing"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Indexing</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">The referencing indicates all the submission phase of a Web site to a research tool: audit, research for keywords, submission, check, registration, location.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explaininvision"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Invision</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">Powerful for forum experts! <strong>Invision</strong> is one of Forumotion's most performing versions, its <strong>power and stability</strong> makes of this version a must-have for people that want to use their forum at 100%. The best way to build a successful forum!</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainphpbb2"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">PhpBB2</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">Open source system providing tools for the management of <strong>free forum</strong>.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainphpbb3"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">PhpBB3</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">Improved version of <strong>Phpbb</strong> who proposes more features than <strong>Phpbb2</strong>.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainphpbb"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Phpbb Forum</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">System allowing the creation and the complete management of a free discussion forum online.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainposting"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Post</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">Send a message. The messages we post are public and can be read by everyone, unlike e-mail which is sent to only one destination address.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainprivmsg"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Private message (PM)</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">It's kind of like newsletters, but instead of being sent by e-mail, it use private messaging, messages being sent to a group of user. It's not possible to send it to all users without using groups.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainpunbb"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">PunBB</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">Easy for beginners! <strong>Fast and graphically light</strong>, punBB is often chosen by users who like simplicity and ease-of-use. Make your <strong>punBB forum</strong> with all features included. Free punBB forum creation and hosting!</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainscrollbar"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Scrollbar</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">It's the bar on the right hand side of your browser who is used to come up and down in the page of your forum. Thanks to this option you can modify its colors.</p> </div> <div class="w50 mb4 well" id="explainsmiley"> <p class="h6 mt0 pl4 blue">Smiley</p> <p class="mt0 pl4 text-justify">A smiley or emoticon is a small drawing expressing an emotion. 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