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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.

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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Do you konw that every hosting plan at HumDomains includes the following Windows/Linux based value applications?

You can choose the most suitable applications for your website - we have no restrictions on the number of applications that you may use for your website. Each of these applications could be installed either directly at your domain [www.example.com] or at any subfolder or subdomain. How to install these applications?

You don't even need to buy a hosting plan to test and use these applications. Every domain registered or transferred to HumDomains includes FREE economy hosting plan (with a small forced ads on the top of each pages of your website - it will automatically be removed upon upgradation to the paid hosting plan). Therefore, you can also install any of these value applications using your FREE hosting account.  However, please note that syndications will not work properly with the FREE hosting plan. As long as you are comfortable with the free ads, continue to use the FREE hosting, and you will never be asked to upgrade to the paid hosting plan. 

 Check out the list of Value Applications!

 Administration Tools

paFileDB
paFileDB is a file management system that enables you to create and manage a database of files available for download on your Web site.

Advertising

Noah's Classifieds

Noah's Classifieds is a PHP-based general purpose application that allows you to upload, run, and manage classified ads online.

  OpenAds

Openads is the world's most popular adserver with the the web's largest community of ad space owners. Tens of thousands of websites use Openads to make money from online advertising.

Blogs

  BlogEngine.NET

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.

 Lifetype

 reBlog

reBlog is an open source web-based RSS aggregator which allows you to filter and republish content within one application.

Serendipity

Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications

 WordPress

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.

Content Management

  Community Server

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.

  DotNetNuke

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.

  Drupal

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.

 Joomla

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.

  Mambo

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

  Moodle

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

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

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

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).

 eCommerce Solutions

 osCommerce

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.

  Zen Cart

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.

 Galleries

  4Images

4images is an image gallery management tool. Visitors can register and post comments about pictures in your gallery.

  Coppermine

Coppermine is a photo gallery tool that enables you to arrange pictures in categories and albums, create thumbnails of images, search for pictures, and view slideshows.

  Gallery

Gallery is the next generation of open source photo sharing Web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own Web site whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Gallery to create personalized photo albums on their Web sites.

Forum 

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.

Others

  OpenDB

OpenDB (Open Media Lending Database) is a PHP/MySQL inventory application that allows you to easily catalog different media types such as DVDs, VCDs, CDs, VHS tape, games, books, and laser disks.

  phpCollab

phpCollab is a collaboration and project management system that enables you to set up and manage a projects and share files.

 Project Management

eXPlainPMT

eXPlain Project Management Tool (or simply eXPlainPMT) is an open-source, web-based application that assists in the planning and managing of software projects that use the eXtreme Programming methodology.   

Website Add-Ons

 Aardvark Topsites

Aardvark Topsites is a powerful Perl topsites script. It includes many features such as counting pageviews, hits in, and hits out, multiple pages, a search engine, member login, lost password retrieval, and an easy-to-use web-based admin area.

Advanced Guestbook

Advanced Guestbook is a PHP script that you can use to add a guest book to your Web site.

Advanced Poll

Advanced Poll allows you to create, place, and manage an online polling system on your site.

  phpMyFAQ

phpMyFaq is a multilingual, database-driven FAQ management system that you can use to create and manage a FAQ on your Web site.

WWW Paint Board

WWW Paint Board (Wpb) is a tool where users can draw dynamically on the web with VML (Vector Markup Language) technology.

 Wikis

 MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.

 PmWiki

PmWiki is a system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. Pages created with pmWiki look and act like normal web pages, except they have a link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website.

Life will be much more simpler to construct your website using any or combination of these applications.

Have fun playing around with these applications - and we wish that you surely will find a suitable application for your website. The list will be updated as when new applications will be added to the hosting plan.

All the best for your value website.

Sincerely,

Head of Support Team, HumDomains