Free forum, message board and chat room for your site

Wouldn't it be nice to provide some interactivity to your sites visitors? To have a place where your sites visitors can interact with you and with each other. Where they can chat or discuss topics that interest them. Well there is a way to add this type of interactivity to your site for free. Its completely free and you don't have to host the services on your server either (great news for those bloggers who are using free blogging platforms like Blogger or Wordpress etc. There's nothing to buy, nothing to download, nothing to install. Your forums reside on the World Crossing server, so there's no need to install software at your own site. In return for providing the free services the hosting company does show ads on the freely hosted forums (if you can pay, you can upgrade to a premium account and get some extra perks).

Features include;

1. Instant setup
2. Public or private forums
3. Chat rooms
4. Personal e-mail
5. Newsreader access
6. Customization
7. Administrator's control panel
8. Threaded messages or linear conversations
9. Unlimited participants
10. Unlimited messages

And so many other. You can view the detailed feture list along with their explanation here. You can see some demo forums, admistrator's panel and view some public forms from this page.



Here's the link to the service provider. After the page has loaded in your browser, press enter. Click "create a forum" from the side bar.


You'll land on a page which looks like this;


Click on the link "register as a member of World Crossing" (suggestion number 2). Enter your name, password and email address. You ca read terms of service and privacy policy too on the same page. Click "I accept" (there is also a radio button which says "I do not accept", but what's the point). Click "register" button.
 

You'll be sent an email with your member code. Press ok button (or preferences button, both take you to same page). You can select the special offers from the sponsors and click submit button or click the "No thanks, continue" link. (Whichever option you choose you'll land on the same page).

On the next page you can change your password or preferences, view most active forums or the newest forums.

Click "Change your password or preferences" link. Here you can add information about yourself and configure some other options as well.