Functionalities
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Creation of Categories and Forums: The most important thing of all and it's very easy to do. This is pretty self-explanatory so I won't go into detail, but I will say that there are almost no limits on the number of forums you can add. The free forum that I co-admin currently has around 136 forums with the capacity to add more.
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Customizable skins: You are able to change the colors, buttons, logos and pictures on your free forum. There are several pre-installed themes available if you're not feeling creative, or if you're a bit of an expert, you can edit the CSS yourself. One thing not offered by Forumotion is the ability to have multiple skins; however they do provide a script to do this on the support forum.
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Portal Module: Once installed, you can add unlimited 'blocks' to the portal, which essentially acts as your homepage. It gives a nice, finished look to your forum.
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Avatar Gallery: You can add and delete avatars to your gallery as and when needed.
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Member groups: Very useful if you want to classify groups, or create forums that can only be seen by certain members.
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Private Messages: Something I like about PMs on forumotion boards is that a record is kept of the dialogue between each person. For example, if I send a PM to 'Rachel', she will then see our previous PMs underneath.
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Users Connected: With an adjustable time-frame, you can see which members have been connected recently. This is shown at the bottom of your index page.
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Calendar Module: If you activate the calendar, a link will show up in your navigation bar and you will be able to add dates and events to it.
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Ability to add moderators: You can assign certain members moderator status across the whole board, or simply for a certain forum.