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  • Free 2013+ Guide
  • Forum
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  • create community & attract visitors
  • publish content & establish your authority
  • engage & convert visitors into members
  • ... much more easily than ever.

    No Buzzwords... Only Features you need in one package:

    Discussion Forums - make website sticky, capture new and return visitors

    Create a place on your site people come back to again and again, and let them share ideas and documents easily.

    Find anything you need in a modern community: post notifications, private messaging, WYSIWYG editor, drag 'n drop file upload, photo & video embedding, etc.

    And take advantage of the newest web technologies, like HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and JSON Web Service.

    Unified Blog - content publishing without messing with multiple software

    Create an instant blog from existing forum content, without duplication or a separate software to manage.

    Pick forums and thread labels to draw content from, and the software repurposes matched topics as blog posts.

    Similarly, any comment on the blog becomes a reply in the forum. Build community faster with the help of your blog readers.

    We use this software for cakewalk.com, supporting 70,000 users and 2.5 million of posts. It has never let us down despite this heavy load and nearly constant usage.

    We use this software for cakewalk.com, supporting 70,000 users and 2.5 million of posts. It has never let us down despite this heavy load and nearly constant usage.

    Ron Kuper | Cakewalk.com

    Mobile Web App - capture & serve the future of Internet traffic today

    Let your members access your community from anywhere in the world using any smartphones & tablets.

    The software detects mobile devices and delivers the app automatically. And it's feature rich, so members can access virtually every feature without switching to the desktop view.

    Powered by jQuery Mobile, the web app is also lightweight. Mobile users only download what they need, so page loads fast even on slow networks.

    Social Media Sign-in - get more people to join with a single mouse click

    Remove the hassle of registration and plug the membership leak: 84% of adults online dislike being asked to register on a website.

    Using one-click authentication with Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, visitors become your members instantly. No more filling forms & confirming emails that disengage your visitors.

    Community Highlights - grab attention & make community more interesting

    No more dull community home page, instead, create attention-grabbing headlines and graphics that draw visitors' attention instantly.

    Prioritize content display using design techniques seen on major news sites (like CNN), making it easier for new members to explore your community. Engage current members when they return and convert them into regulars.

    Landing Pages - answer your visitors' "What's in it for me?" & increase conversion

    Provide clear incentives for visitors to join your community. Dramatically increase your response by letting them know the benefits they'll get.

    And deliver your downloadable freebies right after sign-up with a private welcome message. You can also auto-import members into your newsletter list using our programmable event hook.

    You can create special pages for your Pay-Per-Click campaign, or deliver private content to your VIPs using pages not listed anywhere on you site.

    Yes, the software is working very smoothly. It is widely used across Virgin Atlantic by all the Crew/Pilots and office staffs.

    Yes, the software is working very smoothly. It is widely used across Virgin Atlantic by all the Crew/Pilots and office staffs.

    Pankaj Kumar | Virgin Atlantic

    "Federated" Search - find important info across blog & forum at once

    Search across blog & forum without navigating away from the current page. Filter and sort search results to locate the exact info you look for.

    It helps you avoid duplicate content in the forum by showing people a list of similar threads when they create new posts.

    It also finds a list of related posts for every thread in case your members want to delve deeper into the community (also helps increase time on site). Related posts are updated periodically to include new content.

    Photo Gallery - complement your community with pictures. They are worth 1000's of words per upload

    Create unlimited public & private galleries. Let members share photos and organize them in albums, with auto-thumbnailing & slideshow.

    Members can drag 'n drop multiple photos to upload, and the software auto-resizes photos to fit viewer's browser resolution.

    Photos uploaded to the gallery can be embedded into forum posts, making it very easy to organize attachments, and eliminate the need to upload multiple copies of the same file for different posts.

    Surveys & Polls - collect opinions easily without any 3rd party service

    Embed multi-question polls in your forum and blog. Get to the heart of what your members really want, fast.

    Conduct as many surveys as you wish without 3rd party tools, gain valuable insight about your members, and know the adjustments you need to make to keep them happy.

    SE Optimized & Integrated Analytics -collect vital data & help Google like you

    Get indexed faster and rank better on Google with Search Engine Friendly URLs for all your forums, threads and blog posts.

    Change Meta keywords, description, and incorporate Google or 3rd party Analytics scripts without touching the source code (Admin feature built-in).

    For all your content pages, the software generates Canonical URLs to ensure Google directs "link juice" correctly and avoid incurring duplicate content penalty (Google's Panda algorithm).

    Security & Moderation - keep spam, abuse & hackers at bay with ease

    Fine tune member level post approval to reject spam. Turn on Google's ReCaptcha to throttle spam bot activities.

    Reduce malicious ads and link building practices with Private Messaging and Link Spam protection. Make their efforts fruitless for human spammers.

    Enlist your community to moderate itself, too. Let members flag posts & report abuse on their own, and kick trouble makers out of your community.

    High Performance - proven to handle thousands of concurrent users at any moment

    Google's revenue drop 20% when search results take 0.5 seconds longer to show; 40% of people leaves if a page doesn't load within 2 seconds.

    ASPPlayground was designed 10+ years ago to be a platform that scales with your community, as your community grows. And it's proven to perform well on some of the largest communities on the Internet, without complex hardware.

    The new version, APG vNext, is further optimized (you may find the following interesting if you're a programmer):

  • No dependency on the ASP.NET Session Object to reduce memory usage on the server, also making it easy to run on web farm (load balanced servers).
  • Viewstate disabled on most pages to reduce page download size and save bandwidth.
  • Optimized caching on the server to eliminates unnecessary database calls to further reduce page load time.
  • Combines and GZip compresses CSS and JavaScript to cut down the number of requests and reduce page payload, so your community loads fast even on the first visit.
  • Utilizes "eTag" for CSS and JavasScript to help browser optimize page requests when users hit the refresh button.
  • Use of Stored Procedures and combined queries to reduce the number of database round trip.
  • Most CRUD operations are purely JSON Web Service based, making them light on server and network.
  • After surfing through the internet searching for a suitable forum for one of my sites I stumbled upon ASPPlayground and life has been just brilliant ever since. We got the forum up and running in no time.

    The users love it, everybody is just thrilled. Samuel and his partners are brilliant in their support and always find the time to answer your question ASAP.

    After surfing through the internet searching for a suitable forum for one of my sites I stumbled upon ASPPlayground and life has been just brilliant ever since. We got the forum up and running in no time.

    The users love it, everybody is just thrilled. Samuel and his partners are brilliant in their support and always find the time to answer your question ASAP.

    Gudmundur Magnusson | Liverpool.is

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