Your Company Chat Room
• Do you need a Chat room / Members Forum for your business, club or organisation?
• Do you want a Customer Feedback page on your website?
• Do your on-line customers need their own Message Board?
My Chat Room pages can be tailored to fulfil these rolls and turn your website into a valuable resource for you, your employees, your
members & your clients.
Don't forget the terms Chat Room and Forum are largely interchangable. I use both terms here to
describe a client / member-based interactive website.
What is a Forum?
A web-based Forum contains a set of pages incorporating special interactive software. This software allows the main content of
these pages to be directly uploaded to the website by each / all of the individual, registered members.
Most other non-interactive websites can only have the content of their pages updated by the company or the web-designer who is
managing the site.
Who can view these interactive pages?
Access to a web-based Forum is usually restricted to registered members of the club, business or organisation. This restriction is
always applied when the site is a private 'members only' facility.
Nowadays, there are an increasing number of Question and Answer websites and even some companies and private organisations are
providing a 'public area' on their Chat Room, where anyone can view selected pages. These sites are not entirely unrestricted, however,
for although a number of pages are made available for public viewing, you will not be able to login to post your question or respond
with your answer until you have registered with the site and obtained your personal username and password, or other login details.
Terms and conditions for eligibility to register as a contributing member may also apply.
How do you 'login' to a Forum?
I provide a simple Login page asking registered members to enter their Username and Password. When the correct details are
entered and recognised by the site, the member is given full access to viewing all its pages and for adding their own content.
If the member enters their login information incorrectly the system will refuse access and invite the member to try again.
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Screen Shots
The following screen shot shows the Chat Room Main Page.
This is where all the initial Topics are posted
The following screen shot shows a 'Posts' page. This is where a detailed discussion can take place on any of
the posted Topics. Furthermore - any of the subjects posted on this page may themselves become the main 'Topic' on another 'posts'
page.
The following screen shot shows a form used to add a new Topic (or Post) to the on-line forum.
I normally add a disclaimer to the bottom of each page of the Forum, worded in the following way:
The views and opinions expressed in this Forum are those of the individual contributing members.
They do not necessarily correspond with Your Company policy.
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