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Daecon
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Advice for starting a new forum website?

Post by Daecon »

Hey everyone, lately I've been thinking that I'd like to try making my own message board/forum website, however I don't actually know anything about how I would go about doing this.

I figure the best way to get advice would be to ask someone who knows, which is why I'm posting here. Perhaps the founders of Dungeon-Master.com would be able to offer a fledgling potential board owner some information on how I'd actually go about setting up a website like this one?
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Post by beowuuf »

Proboards do a good free website forum, one of the other forums I go to had to find a temporarily site when the main site went down, and since then I have created a offshoot site under proboards with no problems

It's very skinnable, interface is simple to use, and you should have our forum set up in no time!
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Post by zoom »

try to find someone in real life. It is probably much easier to setup a forum together with someone sitting next to her /him and learning stuff this way.
I have no knowledge about forums, so that's all the tips I can give.

you have to choose a software. Drupal is a bit more complex(powerful, can give different rights to different users and such) than [forgot name :uups]. so first get some info on what forum software you can choose from.THen what you need.
Of course you 'll need a server. Well, and much free time..good luck, and btw a cool idea.. but you cannot plan everything in advance, I have seen a many forum corpses (no users / no posts) so all your effort could be a failure !! ermm. ok I'm out..
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