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Hi all,
There appears to be a lot of interest in setting up a forum these days. I myself am jumping on that old bandwagon :lol: however I thought I would share the experience and let anybody join in.
After my first failed attempt (see signature - an example of what not to do!! - nothing works the way its supposed to do) I went back to the drawing board and approached it a bit more methodically.
Rather than just throwing up the board and letting it run, I went back to basics and decided to approach it from zero. I have created a testbed forum at http://www.wndp.com/testforum Everybody here is welcome to come along and see the approach I have taken. As each change occurs it is left to run before being uploaded to the correct forum.
This will be a purely developmental forum and thread with the aim of having people that are interested in them able to set up the technical side of theirs themselves. This is one of the most important aspects of a site - knowing how the backend of it works as well so that if something goes wrong - you can fix it yourself - or at least know where to start.
I will not be issuing the name of my forum as this is not an advertising thread. Feel free to laugh or cry with me as I get it on the road and also feel free to provide constructive criticism along the way.
ben20
There appears to be a lot of interest in setting up a forum these days. I myself am jumping on that old bandwagon :lol: however I thought I would share the experience and let anybody join in.
After my first failed attempt (see signature - an example of what not to do!! - nothing works the way its supposed to do) I went back to the drawing board and approached it a bit more methodically.
Rather than just throwing up the board and letting it run, I went back to basics and decided to approach it from zero. I have created a testbed forum at http://www.wndp.com/testforum Everybody here is welcome to come along and see the approach I have taken. As each change occurs it is left to run before being uploaded to the correct forum.
This will be a purely developmental forum and thread with the aim of having people that are interested in them able to set up the technical side of theirs themselves. This is one of the most important aspects of a site - knowing how the backend of it works as well so that if something goes wrong - you can fix it yourself - or at least know where to start.
I will not be issuing the name of my forum as this is not an advertising thread. Feel free to laugh or cry with me as I get it on the road and also feel free to provide constructive criticism along the way.
ben20
