Invision Board Web Hosting

Invision Board Web Hosting

The Invision Power Board; also called IPB or IP.Board or IP board is an internet forum software produced by Invision Power Services, Inc. The software is mainly written in PHP language and utilizes MySQL database. The Invision Power Services (IPS) was begun by Matt Mecham and Charles Warner in 2002. The Invision Power Board is a commercially sold product and the community actively contributes towards the medication of the product free of cost.

The IP.Board is a seemingly advanced bulletin board system that offers its users a feature rich, powerful, lightening fast and a flexible system. The IP.Board version 2.3 requires the PHP 4.3+ or PHP 5.0+ and MySQL 4.0+ or MySQL 5.0+. The SQL Server and Oracle9i databases are supported with the use of additional drivers.
The IP>board comes packed with loads of features enhancing its functionality, practicality and extensible components; while being user-friendly. Some of its key features include:

Advanced Moderation Functions: The moderator wields complete control over all the delegated tasks with the various moderation tools which make the entire process a snap.

• Moderation queue
• User warning system
• User suspension controls
• Topic/post multi-moderation
• Move and/or merge topics
• Inline topic locking/topic title editing
• Split, lock or pin topics
• Ban controls: IP.Board allows you to ban individual user accounts or IP addresses (individually or by range).
• Multi-moderation feature to create streamlined workflows as well as automatically eply, move topics, pin topics, delete topics and more.

Easy Content Sharing via RSS: Features simple sharing of content with others and/or reuse content from elsewhere.

• RSS export of any forum
• Import RSS content as posts
• Show content on your site with SSI
• E-mail or print topics and posts

Community Driven User Profiles: The brand new user-profiles facilitate an improved and seamless user interaction.

• Personal profiles
• Buddy lists
• Comment within profiles
• Rate users

Powerful Customization Options: The IP>Board features easy to use and advanced customization tools; as every aspect of the board can be customized by the user; accordant with the personal tastes or site preferences.

• Download pre-made skins for your board from our resource site
• A built in powerful skin creator
• Download and create language packs

Extensible features: IP>Board is highly extensible and users have the option and flexibility to add more features as well as integrate with their own software.

• Components system
• Active modification community
• IP.Converge for ’single sign-on’ between boards and even other software

A Comprehensive Administration Panel: It features a powerful, reliable and an all-inclusive Admin panel that is extremely user friendly. Gives the user the ability to micro-manage every aspect of the board, or use default options.

• Download pre-made skins for your board from our resource site
• Powerful skin creator built in
• Download and create language packs

Other features include:

• Topic rating
• Report topic to moderators
• Announcement topics which can also be timed or dated as needed.
• Unlimited forums and sub forums.
• With the attachment manager; users can attach as many files as necessary with their posts.
• BBCodes: BBCodes are a simple way of stylizing posts by adding formatting such as font colors and sizes.
• Interesting emoticons: use the built-in emoticon manager to add as many other emoticons.
• Inline post editor
• Advanced poll system allowing multiple polls with multiple answers
• Automatic thumbnails created for uploaded images
• Admin control over file-types allowed as attachments
• Community Calendar
• Support for AIM, MSN, Yahoo! and ICQ screen-names
• Built-in user-to-user email system
• Complete private messaging system between users
• A comprehensive user control panel for managing subscriptions, profile details and settings.

Three forum views: The default ‘linear’ view displays replies one after the other – the norm for modern bulletin board systems. A traditional threaded (or ‘outline’) view is available for those that prefer the view that the regular forums offer.
Lo-Fi Display: This feature is ideal for users if they are accessing the board via a non-traditional device, such as a cell phone or PDA or for someone who is just looking for a simplistic version.

• Printable version for topics
• Users can export topics as Word/HTML files as well as email topics.
• HTML Logic and Macros.
• Ability to export templates and CSS, images and macros.

The Invision Power Services (IPS) grants its users non-exclusive license to use the Software on one installation to be accessable by one URL (web address); while adhering to the terms of the company’s agreement. The company offers two licenses for IP.Board and offer differing levels of support and service. The first is the standard license and the other is the business license; and the buyer can choose one that best suit his/her needs. Both licenses allow the user to run IP.Board perpetually, with upgrades available for a period of 6 months. The license can be renewed after a period of 6 months for a low fee. The standard license is currently priced at $149.99; while the business license is priced at $299.99.
Invision Power Services also offer hosting services and each of its hosting packages includes a complimentary IP.Board license.