forum building

[steve-d]

How can I build a complete forum to upload to my bv webpage? is there a software I can use? or some script? someone please help!

[killerthresh]

Re: forum building

i want to know also, ive been trying to do that also.

[navaldesign]

Re: forum building

Forums are quite complicated scripts. There is no way of embedding a forum script in a BV built website. what you CAN do, if you like, is use one of the forum scripts available in Fantastico, and disply it in an Iframe in your BV page.

[steve-d]

Re: forum building

okay I installed phpbb on my home directory but I am just wondering how use it and how to customize it.

[Watdaflip]

Re: forum building

Here are tutorials on using phpbb

http://www.vodahost.com/tut_phpbb.htm

Theres two ways you can customize the look of the forum.
1) Download a style from a website (google search "phpbb styles" and you will get websites that have dozens of them), and then install it onto your forum

2) Customize the forums templates yourself. This requires html knowledge, but its the only way to have your forum match your website exactly.

If you are talking about customize the functionality you can either

1) Download and install mods for phpbb
2) Modify the forums code yourself (but this will require an extensive amount of php knowledge)

I hope that helps

[steve-d]

Re: forum building

thanx alot... i really appreciate the help. just
one more thing tho. I want to be able to
customize the blog page a little more like
the header and the page layout how would
I go about doingthat?(e.g. I want to make
the blog look like my other page

[Watdaflip]

Re: forum building

Whatever blog software you are using will most likely have a similar template system as phpbb has. It would be a matter of either downloading a template for the blog that looks similar to your website, or creating you own custom one that will look exactly like the rest of your site (but again this will require knowledge of html and css)

[steve-d]

Re: forum building

thanx. I will probably download a template that looks like my page I appreciate all your help

[ankit chaurasia]

Re: forum building

hi

Is there any way to make forum just like this VB forum ????????

[Watdaflip]

Re: forum building

You could purchase an copy of this forum software from vbulletin.com

There is no simple way to create a forum like it from scratch.