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I googled quite a lot but didn’t find any article on designing a good forum.So here is it for the first time.It will be very useful if you are a webmaster.

In forums, users develop a reputation over time.So do give them higher importance.This can be done by adding feature to vote user`s content,allowing user to rate each other and user ranking.More the user participates the more professional status he will acquire.This will result in totally user generated content.

The design of the forum plays a role in our decision to use it. After all, every forum has its own personality.

The diversity of content on forum is very important. Forum should offer unique content.This will help you to get more traffic from search engines.Also content should be well categorized. Forum needs good moderation and clear guidelines.

Once you have chosen a good forum software which suits your needs,customize it.Never use the default skin or theme packaged with your forum software.There are number of sites that offer a number of different themes and skins for your particular forum software.Use the best which will suit you as Your forum needs to stand out from the crowd.

Here is an example

Costa Rica Forum.

Costa Rica Forum is well designed forum,offering uniquie content.This forum is very great for traveler,as it provides information regarding hospitals,public services,transport,phone numbers,hotel,etc in Costa Rica directoey.Redsidents of Costa Rica can use it to post their articles on news, politics, technology, the Internet, business and many other things.It also provides free sms and fax service.It allows its users to blog in Costa Rica Blogs section.These extra services are crucial for a forum,as it removes the classical forum look of posting questions and answering those.

Display all your posts in a unique way with Snazzy Archives.Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for wordpress.You can select different layouts(html or CSS)and special effects(jQuery).Snazzy archives will make sure your content stands out.It scan posts for images and youtube videos.

Demo website | Author`s page

Thebloggersguide.com is a network of blogs from the world’s cities.It harnesses the power and the knowledge of the blogosphere to create a completely new type of city guides. Yes these are professional travelers and bloggers.The most important thing is that they don’t do pages and pages of listings, rather,make a few recommendations.

These blogger get “kudos” points based on their activity on the site and most importantly the popularity of their posts.Kudos are converted to money and the highest ranking bloggers is invited to become editors of a particular city section and the published guide book.

The bloggers guide runs monthly travel writing competition for writing views.Topics are provided.

The best was New York City Guide by torimcm.Has lots and lots of quality articles,photos,recommendations etc.This editor is thoroughly talented.I loved his work.

Motorola released its new version of PEBL 3g mobile phone in Korea, which includes a hidden external display.

If you just press the keypad, the case appears to come to light with illumination. The hidden display is touch-sensitive and can display pictures and be used for navigation and control of the phone’s settings.

It also have some other features like high-speed 7.2M bps data transfer, Bluetooth, MP3 player and a 2MP(Mega Pixel) camera.
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So thats over $600 worth of awesome prizes plus 500 EntreCards!

All you have to do is the following…
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HostGator.com is a privately owned company that has been providing services to several popular websites around the world. The company is the current leader in providing web hosting services to most of their clients, especially bloggers. They have six years of experience in the field and over the years, winning great number of prestigious awards for their exemplary services has been their main forte.

Services provided by the company not only allow clients to get websites, it also allows bloggers to get help in developing attractive blogs. Bloggers can choose from a wide range of templates from their domain for building blogs. The features provided by HostGator are best suited for bloggers. By winning innumerable awards for their contribution, they are easily “eating away their competition” in the market.

Role of designing a proper blog for your success:
Building a good blog is necessary for the success of any blogger. Taking the services of a web hosting company allows a blogger to build attractive blogs for promoting their business. They are not required to trouble themselves with the complexities of building a blog. There are available opportunities that allow people to build blogs for themselves and provide the bloggers with all minute trivialities required for developing one. With growing competition in the market, the current lot of web hosting companies sees to it, that every blogger is provided with the best services, so that they can be ahead of their competitors.

Features that are offered by HostGator to a blogger:
There are several features of HostGator, which allows them to rank higher than any other firm providing services of a web hosting company.

Large Web Space: HostGator allows a blogger to use a web hosting space of 600 GB.

Higher Bandwidth: The 6000 GB bandwidth helps in faster access to the blogs of their clients.

Script and Database: The websites that are built by the company for a blogger uses scripts and databases including CGI, PHP 5, RoR, Perl, MySQL, SSH, SSL, IMAP and POP.

Hosting unlimited websites: HostGator allows a blogger to have the option of hosting more than one blog with their help. There is no limit to the number of blogs that a blogger can host through them.

Round the clock support: In case, their clients need to get in touch with them for any reason, it is necessary that the company should be available round the clock for solving their problems. HostGator allows their clients to get help any time of the day.

Money back guarantee: In case, a blogger is not satisfied with their services, they can expect to get their money back within 45 days.

No hidden costs: You are sure to find no hidden costs or fees from a deal with HostGator. There is also no scope of any contracts involved.

Why HostGator is popular amongst most bloggers?

The benefits that bloggers get to enjoy when they use the services of HostGator are manifold.

Website assistance from edit.com: The expert team at edit.com provides bloggers with 100% satisfaction in all the services they require, be it the designing of the logo, the banner or the complete layout of a particular blog.

Merchant Services: HostGator allows their clients to make the choice on how to accept online payments through their blogs by providing them with prices and information that would allow them to know ‘how to get a merchant account for their business?

Easy domain registration: Bloggers are provided with the chance to get the blog extension of their choice. They can choose any one of the following domains like .com, .net, .biz and .info. It is very simple to register with HostGator and get a domain. The cost involved is also very less.

Getting SSL certificates: As online payments are made through credit cards, it is very important that the blog (if used for making online payments) should have SSL certification that helps encrypting the credit card numbers and their passwords. Bloggers can get SSL certificates by paying a small sum to HostGator.

Trouble free installation of scripts: The most difficult part while building an attractive and user-friendly is installing a script in it. Bloggers just need to send an email to HostGator with the name of the script, they are interested in installing and the company handles the job for a small service charge.

Why HostGator is one step ahead of other companies providing services to bloggers?
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I just got a gmail on apple iphone 3g worst features in india and i just stunned with it and looked at them then i released that iphone is worst than any.

So here is the mail:
Those of you in India planning for iPhone…Think Twice Before Making a decision…The short commings of iphone are endless..

No video calling, no AD2P on the Bluetooth, can’t share any(mp3, images, videos…) files via bluetooth, can’t use as a wireless modem, (you pay ridiculous data charges to activate internet on your phone, but cannot connect it to your PC and browse when you are at home)

All even the smallest copy and paste,(cannot copy a part of a.. say… email & send it..have to type it out yourself)

No 3.2 or 5 megapixel camera,(the 2MP camera it carries is worst camera i’ve ever seen.. photos look like they have come out of a VGA camera)

No video recording with camera, no front camera, no flash.

No JAVA support

No physical keyboard (BELIEVE me! this alone is a dealbreaker…touch keyboard as good as it looks…once you use it then only you come to know about the importance of having a hard keypad)

No 3G network yet in India..so why pay for expensive 3G phone if you cant use its 3G services … so, for India, iPhone 2.0 is no better than its first version

No removable battery. (You cannot change battery. Have to send it to apple outlet.. Come on now!!!!…This is not an iPod. Its a bloody phone. You cannot live without phone for 2-3 days)

No haptic feedback and cannot send MMS, an’t use as external storage device (16 GB of utter waste..next time you go to your friend’s house & find some interesting songs, movies, etc…sorry you cannot connect your ‘16 GB’ phone and share it!!!! Apple apparently has a solution.. ” BUY MUSIC & MOVIES FROM iTUNES STORE “….. Give me a break will you APPLE!!!)

no FM radio, can’t use your mp3 files as ringtones,(This is heights man!!!)

cannot insert any other SIM card….

completely tied to iTunes… Connect to your friend’s iTunes & you risk erasing everything on your phone.

list goes on & on & on….

Read the iphone endless features below:
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