Looking through the conferences, topics, and messages gives you a good idea of what information is on this board, as well as how others are presenting information. Conferences are the idea starters for the board. Topics and messages provide the content for conferences. A conference is created by a WebBoard administrator or manager but the real discussion begins when someone posts a topic to it. Other users can reply to the topic by posting reply messages at any time.
Several people reply to that topic about their travels in Africa.
Someone else started the topic Frolicking in Liechtenstein, to which others reply, and so forth. In essence, a topic message starts a discussion, and any replies continue it. WebBoard's ability to let you browse by conference or topic from the Conferences list means you can either follow a subject exhaustively or pick and choose just the messages you want. The Conferences list shows all the conferences on this board. The numbers in parentheses to the right of the conference name tells how many total and how many new messages are in it.