Tooum : Excite your site

"Switchboard is the result of what happens when your Blog and your Forum get together and have a baby with an IQ of 400!"

Fully integrated Blog and Forum - FREE!

No longer do you need to source your Blog and Forum from two different providers. Switchboard is the worlds first fully integrated Blog and Forum solution. It has been born from the idea that a Blog and a Forum are essentially the same thing; the only difference being that they are presented in a different way. So you can now view all comments from your Blog and Forum; you only need login once and visitors can view all activity as it happens.

Universal Blogging for you and your readers

With Switchboard, you can publish blog articles in the same way as any other Blog publishing service, allowing anonymous or registered comments from readers. Akismet spam protection is employed to keep your comments clean and real. You can categorise all your discussions and adding tags to posts and articles is a breeze.

Switchboard is and will always be free for everyone who wants it. It's secure and hosted by our friends at HomepageUniverse so you never need worry about ensuring that your community works and is always online.

Discussions across both Blog and Forum

Seamless integration of both Blog and Forum means you can now manage all your users comments and forum posts very easily, and RSS/ATOM feeds are available for all discussions and articles. Meaning you are always kept up to date with your community. Every visit tells you what is new and what you have not yet read, and searching for what you need is as easy as a click of your mouse.

Switchboard is the fastest and easiest way to start a community around your business or personal interests. Use it to engage your clients and support them in a use friendly way; or just discuss your favourite topics with friends and tell them all about you.

Switchboard Features

Tooum Switchboard has been designed from the ground up to be a direct replacement for your Blog and Forum. So instead of having to manage two separate and independent applications, Switchboard empowers you to combine the two into one easy to use and back to basics approach.

Just a few of the features available in Switchboard:

100% FREE and fully hosted on our servers, with no software install required
Ajax functionality throughtout providing a quick and easy experience
Ability to view latest and unread comments
No technical knowledge needed
Fully integrated blog and forum posting
Akismet spam protection for comments and posts
RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, MBOX, OPML, ATOM, ATOM 1.0, ATOM 0.3, HTML and Javascript feeds
Registered users can notify you of any spam comments, then you decide whether it is spam
Advanced skinning and CSS customisation of everything
Customised categories and tagging fully supported
Create and modify custom templates
In-context admin features and easy to use administration area.
Quick and simple member signup
Search all discussions and comments
Integrated Tag Cloud component
Microsummaries fully supported showing new comments
Related discussions shown after each discussion
Advanced Filter for discussion listings and search results
View discussions by Blog, Forum, tag, category, or just view all
Mark discussions Sticky and closed
User bookmarks system for easy access to users favourite discussions.
Shows users new comments/discussions since their last visit
Anonymous and/or member comments allowed
Import content from third party services (Wordpress, PHPBB, etc.)
Plus loads more...

About Tooum

Tooum is the natural replacement for HomepageTools which was started over 10 years ago and designed for webmasters who wanted to add free hosted tools to their site. At the height of its fame, it hammered out over 5 million page views every month.

Tooum is the brainchild of Joel Moss and the natural progression of the very well established, and hugely popular HomepageTools. We provide easy to use plugin tools and services for webmasters and business owners all over the world. And because we host everything for free, you don't have to worry about programming, hosting or building your tools.

"About a year ago, I began to think about what to do about HomepageTools. At the time, the site had not been changed for a very long time and we had introduced no new tools for several years. It all looked very old and dated, but still maintained its large and loyal user base."

"What HomepageTools needed was a new face and new tools, built from the ground up and with ease of use in mind. So we drew up a plan for the rebirth of HomepageTools and dreamt up what you see right here."

Tooum's very first tool is a completely new take on the age old, but extremely reliable discussion forum idea. It takes what we all know about about forums and adds what we are still learning about Blogs and produces one easy to use and hosted application. Or what we like to call; Switchboard.