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Creating a Discussion Web
Discussion Boards provide a forum where participants can converse
about topics or leave messages. A discussion web has two views, Threaded
and Flat. A Flat view is a non-hierarchical
view in which all postings are sorted in
ascending order based on the Posted At column. A
Threaded view is unique to discussion boards and, as its name
implies, displays a “threaded” format, in which the message
posted first is a root and all other messages replying to the
message are indented to simulate an order.
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Setting up a discussion web is simple once
you understand the procedure. Click on New, One page web,
General, and Discussion Web Site Wizard.
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Specify the location of the new web site and
put a √ in the Add to
current Web site. Click OK.
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A wizard dialog box will appear -- Click
Next. Select the main features for your discussion web.
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Enter a descriptive title for the
discussion
web and enter a name for the discussion folder or just use the
default folder title: _disk 1. Click Next.
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Select the Subject, Comments input
field option. If your discussion web will have categories, select
the Subject, Category, Comment option.
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If anyone can post articles to your
discussion web, select the No, anyone can post articles option.
If your site is restricted, select the first option and follow the
prompts.
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Select the Newest to oldest option to
show how you want your articles posted in the Table of Contents.
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Select "No" when asked if the
Table of Contents should be the home page of this web
site. If you select "Yes", the wizard will overwrite your
home page. You do not want the wizard to overwrite
your home page with the Table of Contents information.
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Select the Subject, Size, Date option
for information you want the Search Form to report for
matching documents.
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The discussion web site documents can be
configured for use with browsers supporting frames. Select the
Dual Interface – use frames if available, or normal pages if not
option. Not all browsers support frames so this option will allow
it to work with any browser.
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Once you have answered all of the wizard’s
questions, click Finish.
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The wizard will now add the following _disk1 folder and pages to your web site.
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You
should always link your text describing your discussion web to
the disk1_form.htm page. You can go into each discussion web
page to make revisions or add additional information. Resave
the page after you make changes.
Below is a good example of what a
discussion web looks like. Participants can post new messages or
respond to messages already posted.
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You can delete messages from the discussion
web’s Table of Contents, if the message is out-dated or not
appropriate for your web site, by opening the tocproto.htm
page in the _disk1 folder and deleting the message. Remember
to resave the page when you are done.
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