SiteNet BBS

SiteNet BBS has been designed to be easy to use and a complete, professional 'out of the box' forum solution. Loaded with many useful features, and also highly customizable so that you can give your forums the look and feel of your web site. SiteNet BBS consists of 31 powerful cgi scripts bringing the power of community building to your web site. Also included with SiteNet BBS are a special setup interface to make installation as quick and painless as possible.

SiteNet BBS Features

Supports multiple forum categories with multiple forums.

Designed to be attractive and to project a professional look & feel.

Colors can be customized to match the look and feel of your web site.

You can add your web site menus, buttons, banners, links and more, via HTML templates.

Extensive moderator functions with moderator control panel.

Sticky Topics - Topics that always stays on top.

Users may register in order to post messages or you can create an open forum where no registration is required. You can also create forums where moderators are the only users who may post.

All users has their own profile and users can choose their own user graphic or upload their own photo or graphic.

Ban users via IP address.

Supports voting polls where users can add polls.

You can define titles for users according to the number of posts made by them.

Users may edit their profile or posted messages at any time.

You can add your own icons/user images to be used in your forums.

Comes with a search engine to search forums.

Messages can be moderated for forums you choose to be moderated. Moderation is the process where moderators must approve any new messages for display in forums. This is optional for all forums.

Email notifications to moderators of any new posts. Optional

Complete custom template support for all forums. Any forum can have it's own template.

Template includes where you can include HTML almost like SSI (server side includes)

Forums can be password protected.

Email addresses with a combination of user details can be retrieved for personalised mailing of users.

Ip address stamping.

Allow html in messages.

Email notification - Users can be notified when replies are posted to their messages.

Many more features. See the demo/example forums.

SiteNet BBS Admin Control Panel Features
SiteNet BBS comes with a comprehensive, easy to use admin control panel where you can manage all aspects of your forums.

Create/edit/delete forum categories

Create/edit/delete forums

Delete topics posted in your forums

Re-order your forum displays or forum categories from top to bottom

Any topics or batches of topics can be moved or copied to any forum.

Edit/delete/manage registered users.

Edit user titles according to the number of posts they have made.

Get user email addresses for mailing list purposes

Customize the colors and various settings of your forums

Customize HTML templates

Requirements
SiteNet BBS has the usual requirements of most cgi scripts. You will basically require a web site, with cgi-bin access.

Unix/Linux/Windows based host

Perl 5.002+

Standard cgi-bin access

Ftp access

Easy Installation
SiteNet BBS comes with a setup interface that will aid and verify your installation to ensure that you get it right the first time. Every effort has been made to ensure that you get SiteNet BBS up and running in a couple of minutes.

Installation Service
If you would like SiteNet BBS installed for you, we can do it at $25 per installation. Please note that we will require FTP access. In some circumstances where permissions cannot be set from an FTP session or in the case where full server path's needs to be retrieved for the setup of SiteNet BBS we will require telnet/SSH access. All information passed on to FocalMedia.Net will be kept confidential and we urge you to change all passwords that is sent to us once the installation is complete.

Licensing Policy

Selling the code for this program without prior written consent from FocalMedia.Net is expressly forbidden. You may not redistribute this program in any shape or form.

SiteNet BBS is shareware. It may be downloaded and installed for demonstration purposes, but any usage should be registered.

A single license enables you to use this program for one domain. You will need a license for each domain you use the software on.

All copyright notices in all scripts must stay intact.