ProjectForum

Forums and wikis are all about collaborative editing by multiple users, which made this type of website more and more popular throughout both the business and the academic environment. Aiming to help anyone set the base for their own forum, ProjectForum deploys a database-free server that is easy to configure and manage.

Installation is completed in a few seconds, and the server is up and running immediately, using port 3455 to send and receive requests. It can be launched both as an application and as a Windows service. No matter which you opt for, you should know that the site administration is done using a web browser.

Before proceeding to building new pages for your forum, it is advisable you browse the site administration area to set access passwords for both the administrator and groups. At this point, you will stumble upon various options related to the right to create new groups, activity logging, custom messages, notifications, and even site-to-site importing.

You start by creating a new workgroup and pages for your forum, be it personal pages, discussion, meeting or category pages. For your convenience, all come with built-in templates you can select to get started. Of course, custom content can be added to the page.

Adding content is not difficult, and posts can be attached files and images. The page editor features basic text editing capabilities with options to add tables on the page and insert links to pages or email addresses.  And with a few pages added and comments here and there, you will observe the forum already starts to fall into place. Pages can have sub-pages, which enables you to expand the forum in tree mode.

ProjectForum is very intuitive and helps you design a forum for your team, encouraging collaboration and teamwork.

Each page in the forum can enclose to-do lists and notes, task assignments, reports, discussions, brainstorming session ideas, and more. It's safe to say that ProjectForum offers members of a team a convenient method to share not only ideas but entire schedules and project statuses in a simple manner.