skedad
May 23 2008, 07:45 PM
After using the Astahost forums for many months, I thought I would attempt to have one of my own... Little did I know, that I didn't have, well, any following what so ever.... I tried to just make it private and link it onto my site. I didn't really want to go and throw it out into the WWW without really having a few people on it and making it active. I had two people come in and say a few things, my wife and my sister! And they were happy and bias! So, I don't know if I will scrap it, it doesn't cost me anything, because I just went to invisionfree forums... Oddly enough, it seems like Astahost format, but I wonder if forums are just like myspace layouts: typical to default setups, and everything follows suit, and it is up to the moderator to make it look a bit different from the next forum. I enjoy(ed) creating many different icons and banners for it, but it has 0 traffic, and I can't even make myself content enough to keep adding to it... maybe I will just try again later after rethinking how it will look and feel.... and not try to be so 'that shouldn't go with my forum' feel, or I will not have any forum left to look at.
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HateScape
Aug 28 2008, 06:25 AM
QUOTE(finaldesign @ Jul 5 2006, 04:58 AM)  If you would reccomend some forum software to someone, which one would it be?
Im just wondering, there are soo much out there, free ones, paid ones... I would preferably install one on my web at final-design.net, currently im running some small forums there, but a solution with more options would be needed soon... so any suggestions? i would suggest smf(simple machine forum) becaus its open source and you can change the code.
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Feelay
Aug 28 2008, 06:44 PM
I would prefer learning PHP/SQL and some advanced CSS/HTML and coding your own  that's the best thing to do  because you'll have full knowledge about it, and it is fun coding it 
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skedad
Aug 29 2008, 01:41 AM
I have tried a few different forums myself. I even have one installed through Astahost, too. But I just can't sit down and really customize it to my liking... and I don't really think it will catch on for my site. It is a family site, and I am trying to not make such boring stuff in them. I have my sister and my wife... and a few of their friends. It is just not as much fun as I was planning, so I will just try it again later. I know that I can keep up with Astahost and it's forums, because it is a site with a purpose. I am here to keep my hosting, and I can find TONS of topics to post in. I just try to keep it current. So I will probably try it again sometime, and I will be following this site to see if there are better and more popular ones to be a part of. - skedad -
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