ikonForums

IkonForums Feature List

IkonForums is a comprehensive web bulletin board system. It transcends the limits imposed by other bulletin board software, allowing you to create a truly unique community on your website. From it's extensive template and skins features to it's complete multi-lingual support, your members will keep coming back for more.

Key Features

• Allow your members to choose a language for the board interface.
• Create, Export and Import unique templates and skins straight from the administration control panel.
• Create, Export and Import language packs, allowing your members to choose their native language for the board interface.
• Assign a different template to each forum, or allow your members to choose their favorite skin.
• Complete control over the mime types that can be uploaded when creating a new post or reply.
• Restrict reading, writing and replying attributes for each forum.
• SSI enabled board templates, enabling complete and full integration with other scripts on your website.
• Edit the templates and skins HTML from the administration control panel - no coding knowledge needed.
• Edit the cascading style sheet attributes from the administration control panel.
• Edit the graphics properties from the administration control panel, allowing full control over the border, width, height and alt attributes without knowing any HTML.
• Built in news manager, add news topics from your board into any page on your website.
• Exportable board statistics, show your online members, total post and member count into any page on your website.
• Built in file management to handle permission changes, file deletion, file renaming and file uploading.
• Extensive co-branding features such as multiple templates, and forum specific skins and templates.

Full Moderation Features

• Assign moderators to forums.
• Allow your members to moderate their own topics.
• Mass Prune topics.
• Move topics, with three different options.
• Delete topics and posts.
• Open and close topics.
• Create forum announcements.
• "Pin" topics for maximum attention

Member Features

• Encrypted Passwords for greater security
• Full unrestricted use of the board without cookies
• Comprehensive User Control Panel
• Choosable Skins to alter the look and the feel of the board
• Choosable interface language
• Preset, Flash and personal avatars
• Ability to block avatars, signatures and board images (good for slow connections)
• Personal Messenger complete with address books

Full Forum Control

• Create an unlimited amount of forums
• Re-order edit and delete forums at any time
• Set read, reply and write permissions for each forum
• Protect forums with passwords
• Turn forums off to create 'archive' (read only) forums

Full Category Control

• Create an unlimited amount of categories
• Re-order edit and delete categories at any time
• Nest and unnest categories
• Set read, reply and write permissions for each category

Full Member Group Control

• Assign members to any group at any time
• Restrict permissions for an entire group at a time
• Allow access to the moderation features (Super Moderator)
• Allow access to the Administration Control Panel (Administrator)

Full Administrative Control

• Restrict areas of the adminstration CP to certain groups
• Full administration logging
• Edit languages, skins and email templates from the CP
• Complex member management

General Board Features

• Printable versions of topics
• Member override of default sorting order and limits
• Track topics via email or in the userCP
• Post buttons to make posting iB Code easier
• Full, searchable help system
• Member lists
• Viewable profiles
• Email addresses hidden - to protect from 'spam bots'
• Polls
• Guest posting
• ... and much more!