If you haven't already noticed we launched a BRAND NEW Embeddable Message Forum Service!

A forum is an online message board where your site visitors can post messages and reply to messages. It is a great way to build traffic for your website and have people return over and over to communicate with new friends.

We have created an awesome demo Message Forum for you to see the new Forum in action! Have fun, post, and check out all the new features on our forum demo at myawesomeforum.com!

The new Embeddable Message Forum comes with tons of new awesome features.

  It's Embeddable!
You can now embed the forum directly on your site. Like the Guestbook and Photo Album the Message Forum can be embedded directly into ANY website! When you are in the Service Manager, simply click the 'Get Code' button in the top right and grab the Embedded Copy/Paste Code.

  Multiple Categories!
Now you can put multiple forums into separate categories. To add categories, login to your Service Manager and click the 'Forum Manager' button on the left and there you will see the 'Category Manager'. Note: Your categories will not display on your board until you place a forum into each category. You can also sort the order of your categories as seen below.

  Multiple Forums
Forums contain message threads and their replies. Now you can add more than one forum in your account! To create your forums, again, in the Service Manager, click the 'Forum Manager' button and there you will see how to manage and create new forums. Remember you can place forums into categories to break the board up into sections.

For example, you can have a sports category and then have forums for football, soccer, hockey, etc. Or you could have a category specifically for hockey and have forums for all your favorite hockey teams.

  Avatars
When posting you can now add an avatar image to identify yourself. Every time you post, your Avatar will be along-side your message. If you need a place to store your images, remember you can use either Bravenet Hosting or Bravenet Photo Album for image storage.

  Quoting Replies
Now, you can either "Reply" to a post, or you can alternatively "Quote" a previous post. This will include a portion of the original message in order to better indicate the message you are referencing.

  Edit/Delete Ability for Posters
Now, anyone that posts in your forum can, for one hour, edit or delete their own posts. A much requested feature from our members.

  Added Search features
Now you can search based on keywords in a post and search by author to see all of their posts. Additionally, forum owners, when logged in, can search by IP address in order to locate posts from the same computer.

  Date and Time Display Options
The date display is now customizable. You can choose to show the current date and time, or you can show the elapsed time since the post was made… example: "posted 1 hour ago". To change this setting, from your Service Manager, click the 'General Settings' buttons on the left and then select the 'Display' tab. If you wish to change the time zone of your Message Forum you may do so by clicking 'Edit Info' from the main Bravenet account page.

  New Status Icons
Be sure to select the best Status Icon Set for your forum look! These will be displayed to indicate whether a forum is Open, Hot, Locked, Private, or contains New messages. You can choose your Status Icon Set by clicking the orange button that says 'edit forum styles' when editing your forum.

  BBCode support
Like most other forums out there, the Bravenet Forum now accepts BBCode (Bulletin Board Code).

Here are just a few simple examples of BBCode:

[b]bolded text[/b]
[i]italicized text[/i]
[u]underlined text[/u]
[url]http://example.org[/url]
[url=http://example.com]Example[/url]
[img]http://imageurl.png[/img]
[quote]quoted text[/quote]
[color=red]This is sample red text[/color]

In addition to BBCode, your forum still supports HTML if you so choose.

  Lots More Coming Soon!

We have even more exciting forum updates planned for the future. One thing we are working on is User Registration, which will allow you to turn on a user registration system. In other words, users can register and make accounts to post on your forums. When this feature is added it will be optional of course. In addition, we are going to cater to Wireless/Mobile phones. Once completed, you will be able to access and post from your iPhone or Blackberry!

As some of you have noticed, we are still ironing out a few minor bumps and kinks in the new message forum. You will see it improve in speed and functionality over the coming weeks.

And please, if you are having any problems or notice any new bugs with your new message forum, please contact our support department.

We are really proud of our New Bravenet Message Forum and hope you give it a try. It really is a great tool for building traffic to your website. And of course, it is a great way to make new friends and meet people with similar interests. You’ll build your own community in no time!

Sign up for your Message Forum today!

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YAY! now can you add usergroupes? :P

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