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Forum - Overview

The forum is versatile applicable. You can use the forum e.g. to offer your customers a support platform or to use it simply for changing views with the visitors of your website.

Configure the appearance of the template according to your needs. You can adapt the forum colors to your general website scheme, or define your own graphic elements (buttons etc.) in a new template.

Furthermore you have full control over all user permissions. You decide which format the messages are to have, you administer user permissions, and a good deal more.

Forum - Installation & Summary of Features

Installing the Forum

Open your Domaintechnik Control Panel and click on the link Online Forum. Now you are in your Forum Manager. With this tool you can install and uninstall your online forum. First click on the link Create and then enter the desired path, in order to copy the necessary files into your webspace.

As soon as all files have been copied, click on Install to start the original setup and make the configuration. If you wouldlike to remove the software go to the Forum Manager and simply click on Delete and select whether the database should be removed also.

Displaying the Forum

Open your Forum Manager and click on the link To the Online Forum or enter the following URL in a browser, e.g. www.yourdomain.com/forum/
(substitute "yourdomain.com" with your actual domain name and "forum" with the path selected with the installation).

Administration Area

Open your Forum Manager and click on the link To the Administration Area and log in as administrator.

Online Dokumentation

You can find a general tutorial, as well as hints to configuration and installation in your Forum Manager under the link Usage,and further information about configuring the appearance of the forum,as well as integration and adjustment of further languages versionsunder the link Application.

Topics include:

* How to change the forum layout
* Changes in the admin tool
* Changes of the template files
* Styles for downloading
* How to change text formulations of different languages
* Texts in the forum
* Email texts
* Language versions for downloading
* Download

Questions and answers concerning forum use can be found in the online forums' main menu under the menu item FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).

Topics which you can find there:

* Registering and logging in
* User information and settings
* Writing messages
* What can be done in and with contributions
* User levels and groups
* Private messages

Forum - Screenshots