Internet Forum lets you enable to post your thought, ask a question and get the feedback, suggestions and replies from other members of the forum. You are never alone in a forum.

Defining a Forum

An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. Internet forums are also commonly referred to as web forums, message boards, discussion boards, (electronic) discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards, fora (the Latin plural) or simply forums. The terms "forum" and "board" may refer to the entire community or to a specific sub-forum dealing with a distinct topic." Source : Wikipedia.org

Making your own Forum Website

The easiest way to create a forum website is to use an appropriate forum script. This way you do not need to know anything about the web design and programming in order to share your thoughts, ask questions to the forum, make comments etc. At HumDomains, we recommend the use of following forum scripts for creating a forum of the community.

Simple Machines Forum

SMF is an advanced community software package that enables you to set up and manage online community forums.

Vanilla Forum

Vanilla is a free lightweight and extensible open source forum software using PHP scripting language and MySQL database management system. 

  YetAnotherForum

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF) is a Open Source discussion forum or bulletin board system for web sites running ASP.NET. The latest version is ASP.NET v2.0 with a Microsoft SQL Server backend. The full C# source code is available licensed as GPL.

Getting Started and Setting Up!

You don't have to buy a hosting account to start your own forum website. To begin with, get a domain from HumDomains - that's cheap with our promotional prices. Each domain includes many extra stuffs including 5 GB Free PHP/MySQL Hosting (small forced ads, non-obstructive, no pop-up).

• Select free Linux PHP hosting plan (for SMF and Vanilla Forum) or Windows ASP hosting plan (for YetAnotherForum) form your control panel that come with your domain.
• Install the forum script from the value applications control panel within the hosting control panel. Installing applications are free, easy and fast. Please note that FREE hosting account forces the small ads on the top of each pages. The small forced ads could also be easily removed with the paid hosting plan.

All the best for your forum website.

Two options that will suit your requirement

1. Quick Shopping Cart starting from $9.99/month

Quick Shopping Cart® makes it easy to create your own online store in just minutes! Reach millions of eBay® and Froogle^TM shoppers, integrate your sales information with QuickBooks®, accept credit cards and much more. No technical expertise required! In just six easy steps, you can build and publish a stand-alone store or add one to an existing Web site - no matter where it's hosted. Check for the real life Quick Shopping Cart® in action.

osCommerce is the leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution. It offers shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

 
Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.  Zen Cart™ puts the merchants and shoppers requirements first.

What is Content Management System?

Content Management System (CMS) is a software system used for content managements.

Important Features of CMS

• Any authorized members in the community can easily publish, manage and organize contents - news, articles on common interest, multimedia material & more.
• Administrator identifies key users and their content management roles.
• Publication of the content to a repository to support retrieval of the content anytime. In fact, the repository is an inherent part of the CMS.
• Ability to have different content sections and categories.
• Add-on to CMS website:  Blog, Video streaming, Forum, Photo Gallery & more.  
  

Open Source CMS Scripts

There are plenty of CMS scripts. You have to pay a price for it or can use the open source CMS scripts. Open source CMS scripts are getting much more polular with the evolution of Web 2.0 generation where the users and developers contribute toward the advancement of the script. There  are also CMS tools which as free as long as you use it for the personal purpose such as Community Server from Microsoft.

At HumDomains we provide some of the most popular CMS scripts FREE with every hosting plan. Installation of these scripts are easy and fast. And It is FREE.

For Linux Hosting Plan the following CMS scripts are included.

Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to set up scores of different kinds of web sites. Drupal Wins Overall Open Source CMS Award, 2007.

 Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. Joomla is awarded the best PHP Open Source Content Management System

  Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

  Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. It can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.

 Nucleus is a content management tool that enables you to set up and maintain multiple blogs. It supports multiple languages and includes a commenting system and search feature.

  PostNuke is software that creates an impressive, dynamic web site and provides the webmaster with a site they can administer with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge through a web browser.

  XOOPS is a content management system (CMS) that allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more. It can be installed on an Internet host with a PHP-capable web server (e.g. Apache) and a database (e.g. MySQL).

For Windows Hosting Plan the following CMS SW/Scripts are included.

  Community Server is the platform that powers web communities with over 50,000 customers, Community Server helps organizations around the world power some of the most demanding web communities. It is FREE is long as you use for your personal purposes. For the commercial purpose, you may need to get the appropriate license.

  DotNetNuke is an open-source Web Application Framework ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, and custom vertical applications.

Can I try these scripts FREE ?

Of course yes! You can download these scripts are try out at your own personal computer. For this purpose, your PC will have to act as the web server. The easiest way is to install WAMP5 in your PC. WAMP5 installs Apache, PHP5 and MySQL on Windows platform. You can download it free from here. Here you can even try out all the scripts listed for the Linux/Windows Hosting plan. Linux PC usually install Apache, PHP and MySQL unless you opt out during the OS installation. 

Can I try these scripts directly on the Web Hosting Server for FREE?

Well, I am not aware of any hosting company who can allow you test these scripts for FREE. There are few hosting company who can provide very limited demo version of the CMS scripts with not much control over it. You can have a look however you can't play around much in your own. 

When you register a cheap domain at HumDomains, we provide you a 5GB PHP/MySQL Linux or ASP/MS-SQL Economy Hosting Plan absolutely FREE. However, it will have a small ads on the top of the page, however non-obstructive for your website. Check an example here. You can install these scripts and test it for yourself. Select the most suitable script for your own purposes. Add more features into the CMS website such as forum, blog, gallery & more until you satisfy yourself. There are just unlimited features you can add to it. Check the extensions/addons on the respective CMS websites. If you have the courage you can try all of them - we won't ask you a single question. We also will never ask you to upgrade to the paid hosting plan. Feel free to use the FREE hosting plan as long as you are happy with the forced ads on the top of the page.

All the very best for your CMS website.

Sincerely,

Head of Support Team, HumDomains

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Even though there are different ways of making a personal website, all of them need your time and money or both. At HumDomains, with no programming or HTML skills you are ready to make your own personal website. You don't have to be a web designer or pay the price for a web designer to make your personal website.  At HumDomains, we have put so much efforts to simplify the process of making your own personal website or a website for your family.

Why a Website not a Web Page?
When you construct web pages you need to have a link like otherdomain.com/users/page1.html which is at times difficult to be memorized by yourself, your friends and others. However if you have a website using your own domain say yourdomain.com, then just by typing the yourdomain.com in the address bar of the internet browser it will land up to the default page. Simpler to remember, isn't it!! And you have more control over it.

How to begin
65 MB Website Tonight account - When you register a domain at HumDomains, you get 65 MB 5 Pages Website Tonight® account for FREE. Website Tonight makes it fun for ANYONE to create their own site - without spending a fortune! It's so easy-to-use -- we've even included Hosting. There are hundreds of professionally designed templates just for your personal or family websites. Find more informations, check out at Working with Website Tonight® on how to Getting started, Adding and editing page content articles, Designing your website and more.

Add Photo Gallery to your Personal Website
Free 1 GB Online Photo Filer comes with every domain at HumDomains. Discover an easier way to share, print and manage your photos online! Online Photo Filer gives you an online photo album site for sharing photos, as well as easy-to-use editing tools to make sure your photos look their very best. You can even order high quality prints directly from your album and have them delivered right to your door! (Check the example site). Here is Online Photo Filer Help Center

Add BlogCast to your Personal Website
Free Quick BlogCast - Get your voice on the Internet! Blogging lets you post your thoughts, photos and even your vedios (including your own youtube vedios) on the Net and interact with your web site's visitors. Whether you're writing your own personal journal or looking to influence audiences, Quick Blogcast is the must-have blogging tool for you. How to manage your blogcast Help center!

• Publish your thoughts, opinions, and comments in your own blog, podcast or both anytime, day or night! Supports multiple authors and multiple blogs or podcasts.
• Generate and publish RSS feeds for Tunes® and other directories.
• Post photos, images or animations - create a truly personal blog site.
• You can even stream vedios inside your blog
• Get feedback and have conversations with visitors to your site.
• Personalize your Blogcast with your own unique domain name, Your own domain lets you pick the exact name you want, making it unique and easy to remember! - or integrate it with your existing site by setting it up as a subdomain.

Your Personal Email
25 MB Complete Email - You get 1 Email Address with 25MB Total Storage free with every domain. Your HumDomains email account is fast, ultra-reliable and secure. It's POP3 configured and advertising-free. It offers unique you@YourPersonalDomainName.com personalization. It allows you to send and receive email using popular email clients like MicrosoftR Outlook®, Outlook Express® and more. You can forward the incoming emails to this email account to your existing email account.

Have your own Personal or Family Website with a domain. Feel the joy of sharing with others!! Communicate with your own personal and uniquely yours email ID.

Best wishes,

Head of Support Team, HumDomains

Blogging lets you post your thoughts and photos on the Net and interact with your blog website's visitors.

Defining Blog

There are different descriptions of that concept. According to most of the articles in the Internet 'blog' is short form for 'weblog', a frequently updated publication of comments and thoughts on the web. Usually it is reflecting the views of the blog's creator. Blogs consist of text and images and are sorted by date. People create blogs to share their live experience with the world. The person who is updating that journal is called blogger. They write about different topics: from the typical daily situations to the progress of some scientific researches. The readers also can leave comments and this make the whole thing more interesting and useful.

Creating your own Blog Website

The easiest way to create a blog is to use an appropriate blogging script. This way you do not need to know anything about the web design and programming in order to share your thoughts with the world. You also can make a free blog at Wordpress.com or Blogger.com or other sites providing free or paid bloging facilities. In such case you blog address is your-subdomain.wordpress.com or your-subdomain.blogger.com. However if you want to have a blog with your own unique domain, you need to have a domain for yourself.

At HumDomains, we offer two options to start your own blog.

Option 1. Open Source Wordpress script for Linux OR BlogEngine.NET for Windows

WordPress is a semantic personal publishing platform (i.e., blog) with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It supports multiple users, categories, comments, bookmarklets, RSS syndication, several APIs, and weblogs.com ping, among other features. We recommend you the use of Wordpress script for your blogging need. With HumDomains Linux hosting plan, you get free installation of Wordpress and let your blogging website online within few minutes. It can be easily customizable and extendable with many useful free WP plugins.

BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features. With HumDomains Windows hosting plan, you get free installation of BlogEngine.NET and let your blogging website online within few minutes. For example, HumDomains Blog is powered by BlogEngine.NET with the Windows hosting plan.

Option 2. Quick BlogCast

Make your website more attractive and add more flavors to your website by including Quick Blogcast to your site. (Check the example quick blog) With Quick BlogCast, you'll:

• Publish your thoughts, opinions, and comments in your own blog, podcast—or both—anytime, day or night! Supports multiple authors and multiple blogs or podcasts. Show Me
• Publish even your own videos with the Blogcast. Not only that you can even insert YouTube videos.
• Generate and publish RSS feeds for iTunes® and other directories.
• Post photos, images or animations—create a truly personal blog site.
• Get feedback and have conversations with visitors to your site.
• Personalize your Blogcast with your own unique domain name—or integrate it with your existing site by setting it up as a subdomain.

How to Start ?

To begin with, register or transfer a domain with HumDomains - that's cheap with our promotional prices. Each domain includes 5 GB Free PHP/MySQL Hosting (small forced ads, non-obstructive, no pop-up).

You can install and let your WordPress/BlogEngine.NET blog online in no time (select free Linux PHP hosting planfor Wordpress and Windows ASP Hosting Plan for BlogEngine.NET form your control panel) with the FREE hosting plan that has been included with every domain. Installing applications are free, easy and fast.* The small forced ads could also be easily removed by upgrading to any of the our affordable paid hosting plan.

Our Basic Quick BlogCast is free with every domain. Blogcast is an alternative to WordPress blog website. Getting started Quick Blogcast is easy.

Can I keep the FREE hosting account forever?

Sure, you can keep free hosting account as long as you maintain the domain with us. We will never ask you to upgrade to a paid hosting account. If you have no problem with the small forced ads, continue enjoying our free services with every domain.

Have fun with blogging and sharing your views and ideas with others.

All the very best for your Blog Website.

Sincerely,

Head of Support Team, HumDomains