There is a setting in Simple Machines Forums (the forum software we host) that will allow you to also show the most recent topics (posts) on the opening page. It won’t show every single topic posted (otherwise there would be too many when the forum grew to 1000 posts) but it will let you display the most recent topics, and you can choose how many to show.
Here is how to have the most recent posts display on the forum index page (the opening page):
Go to Admin -> Current Theme (under “Configuration” on the left) -> then scroll down and change the “Number of recent posts to display on board index” setting to 25, or 50, or however many topics (posts) you’d like to show.
There’s a Mod (or Modification) Simple Machines Forums called the Board Notification Mod that allows Members to activate email notification for new messages.
After installing the Mod (or asking us to install it for you if you are a Forum Hosting follow these customer) instructions:
Members shoud click the Profile tab, then click ‘Notifications and Email’ on the left side and can set the options there. You can experiment with the options but the best settings we found were the following:
Uncheck “Receive reply notification only for the first unread reply.”
Then check the box next to: “When sending notification of a reply to a topic, send the post in the email (but please don’t reply to these emails.)”
And next to where it says “For topics and boards I’ve requested notification on, notify me of,” — select: “Replies and Moderation”
Then each Member should click on each board and click the “Notify” tab next for each board they want to subscribe to email notifications.
—
Other Notes:
*To save mail space, the person posting the topic of reply does not receive notification (in our tests anyway) — afterall they don’t need to be notified of something they posted, so the best way to test is to register another user with an alternate email address, login as that test user, and post a test message.
Members can read messages by email, but replying or posting a new
message must be done through the forum (which also serves as an archive
of all communication).
and enjoy the forum hosting service! -OLI
OLI is pleased to announce all new chat software customers can select the free picture-posting add-on which allows chatroom members to upload a picture from their computer to the chat room.
Members can also post pictures from their website or from other online sources.
Also new is the ability to embed links to other website within the chatroom, allowing members to share online resources with each other.
And finally, we’ve added more fun with the optional Smiley Chat Software Add-on.
Happy chatting! -OLI
To use secure FTP (SFTP) software on a PC, we recommend CoreFTP
For a Mac, we like Cyberduck
Both of these support the secure FTP port 22 using SSH to encrypt data in transit.
When using, be sure to click the box that says “SFTP” which accesses the secure port 22.
OLI’s Secure FTP Hosting clients also have access to an SSL web-based FTP, or Web-FTP.
No changes are needed to your FTP folders to use secure ftp, you simply use one of the above methods to access them.
By default, only the admins can embed YouTube video code. There is a way to allow regular forum members to post Youtube videos, see bottom of this posting. While logged in as admin, you can embed the code for video (like the code you’d get from youtube.com if you uploaded your video there) like this:
[html]
embed the code here
[/html]
To allow regular members to post youtube video, you can add the YouTube BBCCode Mod.
To post a picture or upload a file to your message in Simple Machines Forums, you click “Additional Options” when posting a new message (beneath the big text box where you type your message) and upload a graphic or other file attachment.
It’s easy to decompress a file compressed that was compressed within Web-FTP after downloading multiple files.
For PCs: When Web-FTP tars all the files, you can decompress using this free third-party application:
http://www.zipgenius.com
click the “Get ZipGenius” link and then the download graphic next to “Direct download from this server”
For Macs: Most Macs have built-in software (Archive Utility) that will decompress a tar file by simply double-clicking it.
Online Institute was a pioneer in private chat software hosting way back in 1996. Since then we continued enhancing and streamlining our chatrooms to make them among the most user friendly and feature-packed chats out there.
Here’s a sample of just some of the kinds of chat rooms we host:
Educational Chat Software
Community or fan-based Chat Groups
Business-to-Client Support Chat Software
Counselor’s Private Chat
Day trading Chat Software
Hobby or Niche Interest Chatrooms
Private Business Chatrooms for colleagues
Secure Encrypted Chat Software
Family Chatrooms
Reunion Chatrooms
Live Chat Events for bridal showers, birthdays
Fantasy Football and Fantasy Baseball chat rooms
Moderated Chat rooms with a guest speaker
Intimate Chat rooms for a couple to meet in private
and many more! We build our chatrooms to be easy-to-use and can modify each room to fit your project or interest.
To see more of what’s possible with OLI’s Chat Software, click here:
Online Institute is proud to announce the creation of our new blog, using the same Wordpress blog hosting service we provide to clients.
Here we will gather ideas and share solutions on various aspects of hosting, from chat and forum to email hosting, FTP hosting and website creation.
We’re tapping our resident experts to share their knowledge with the world, and we welcome your comments or ideas as we grow this new interactive site.
Please check back soon for useful articles for OLI customers and anyone looking for a better hosting solution.
Cheers! OLI