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Service
* Free forum hosting
phpBB Forum Control
* Your own administration panel * No limit on posts/topics/threads/categories
* Intuitive Admin Control Panel
* Upload custom avatars and logos
* Custom Emoticons
phpBB Custom Modifications/Styles
* Huge number of templates (450+!) * Subdomains - Access your forum via accessname.boardzero.com * Banner Mod
* Custom Header Rewrite allows greatly improved indexing of your forum in search engines (replaces .php with .html)
* Quick Reply
* Our modifications are constantly being updated!
Free Forum Server
* Unlimited Bandwidth for your forums!
* High speed servers
* No limit on traffic/pageviews/unique visitors
Board Zero Community
* Constantly updated FAQ
* Community Support Forums
* Free tech support forum!
Registration
* Instant Registration, be up and running within seconds!
Languages
* Over 55 languages!
* Most languages available including: Albanian, Arabic, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Netherlands), Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Galician, German, German (formal), Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian (Bokmaal), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish, Portugese, Portugese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Russian (Tu), Sakha, Serbian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Argentina), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Welsh.
Installation
* Simple installation that will have you up and running in minutes
Security
* Designed with security as a priority
* Powerful and extensive authorisation system
* Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
* Support for both cookie and URI-based sessions
Unlimited Forums & Categories
* Unlimited forums can be organised into as many categories as you like
* Private forums and those only for specified user groups
* Powerful search facility
Posting Messages
* Message formatting with various font styles and sizes as well as allowing quoting, code display, image posting and automatic URL linking
* Support of standard and extended BBCode tags and controlled HTML tags
* Polls can be simply added to posts
* Email notification of replies to your topics
* Powerful topic subscription capability
* Original emoticons to portray emotions
Versatile User Groups & Forum Permissions
* Powerful forum, user and group permission management
* Control forum access to specified user groups
* Control all aspects of the posting experience
* Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options
Member Features
* Unlimited members
* Personal profile creation
* Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users
* Email-like private messaging system
* Supports local, remote and uploadable avatars
Moderation Features
* Topic editing
* Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
* Topic splitting
* Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per-forum basis
Easy to Use Administration Centre
* General configuration
* Forum & category setup
* Easy database backup and restore
* Disallowed usernames
* User authorisation
* Word censoring
* Complete member management
* Emoticon setup
* Optional new post verification
* Extensive ban management, ban by email address, username or single/multiple IP address or hostname
* IP tracking of posts and posters
* Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator
Style and Customisation
* Multiple styles available for the user to choose from
* Templates separated from the PHP code so that new layouts can easily be created or integrated with your current site design
* Complete control of fonts and colours with cascading style sheets (CSS)
* Active community creating addons and specialised modifications
* Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C
