Web and Blog posting tools
If your business is predominantly online and
you are an avid forum participant and blogger, you will know the importance of
web and blog posting tools. You can find many free PHP scripts with the help of
which you can create blogs and maintain them on your website. If you want to
store or archive your articles and blogs, you also require the MySQL database.
Blog Scripts
With the help of an effective blog scripts,
you can have a good control over how the articles and blogs appear on the site.
You can also use the web interface to post blog articles using the online
WYSIWYG editor, which will essentially help visitors to post comments, handle
trackbacks and pings as well as generate RSS newsfeeds in an automated manner.
You can also find extendable blog software that allows you to use templates
which extends facilities already there on your blog software, use third party
plug-ins.
Apart from the PHP scripts, there are various other good blogging software that are the
movable type. This also uses the PHP scripts and is basically a Perl-based
system. Extra feature it offers include ability to create a completely dynamic
site and static pages. Movable type scripts are offered at various sites for
free and are ideal for personal bloggers. \
Comment Scripts
PHP comment script enables you to allow
visitors to offer their comments on your web pages. It is possible to edit or
delete comments as you have access through the admin area. Comment scripts come
with various features including Akismet, CAPTCHA
which helps prevent scam, comment moderation, e-mail message for new comments,
ability to include in existing web pages, possibility for visitors to enter
name, homepage, comment text, comment title and e-mail, flood protection, IP
blocker, content blocker, Smilies/emoticons, bad word
filter, installation routine and admin area editing and deletion facility.
Forum Scripts
Similarly, if you are planning on hosting a
forum platform, then it is essential choosing from one of the good scripts
available online. Effective and powerful forum scripts allow you to host
multiple forums on the domain. You can thus earn revenue from user upgrades and
ads. With the help of the tools provided with the scripts, webmasters can
customize upgrade packages, insert advertisements and manage the hosted forums.
Certain advanced forum scripts allow
administrators to customize their forums providing an opportunity to enhance
their earning potential.