During creation of the website often it is necessary to create as well a forum in order that visitors could communicate among themselves and with administration and also that they had an additional reason to visit the website. There is a set of templates of a forum which can be found and downloaded on the Internet, all of them adhere to several basic points which are necessary for the maximum safety and convenience of a forum.
Instruction
1. First of all, take care of sections of a forum and on moderating of sections. You can as move and delete subjects, and to keep in staff of moderators. It is impossible to close creation of subjects for users because then communication will be one-sided, in a case if users can create subjects, they feel like full-fledged participants of a forum. Separate a forum on subjects, surely create the section ""flood"" in which it will be possible to write about anything and ""the blog of administration of the website"" in which only you will be able to write.
2. Take care of that the forum looked equally in all browsers. Owing to features of some programming languages, the forum can be displayed not monotonously in different browsers. Check this process.
3. Make a forum private for sending messages and viewing links. Leave messages and browse links only the registered user of a forum should be able, the guest should be able to see only the text of a forum, without links and an opportunity to add the message. This variant is optimal in comparison with full privacy and full disclosure.
4. Surely use protective characters - captcha which will be used at registration and when adding messages to protect a forum from autoregistration and spam bots.