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RMRK General => General Chat => Topic started by: :) on January 14, 2007, 04:22:13 PM

Title: Forum making tut.
Post by: :) on January 14, 2007, 04:22:13 PM
So it seems most people now adays, including me, use free websites to host our forums such as Invision free, and a few more. I think its because most people don't know how to make a forum, what software you need, pretty much all the steps and tools. we can look at rmrk, and then look at most of the sites advertised here, and we laugh at how much better rmrk is. So I was wondering if someone can make a tut on:

Title: Re: Forum making tut.
Post by: Roph on January 14, 2007, 04:56:49 PM
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What tools you need
Forum software, RMRK uses SMF (http://simplemachines.org) ~

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How to make it
Assuming you mean technical / layout stuff, knowledge on CSS (http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/), HTML (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/) and PHP (http://www.php.net/). ~ Also of course knowledge / experience of server stuff for installing / working with the database etc, as well as configuring / tweaking stuff

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How to host it yourself
$600 a year for RMRK =)
Title: Re: Forum making tut.
Post by: :) on January 14, 2007, 05:02:41 PM
Thanks a lot silverline!
Title: Re: Forum making tut.
Post by: Crankeye on January 14, 2007, 09:14:07 PM
SMF Forums Manual:
http://docs.simplemachines.org/

If you ever decide to install your own.
Title: Re: Forum making tut.
Post by: :) on January 14, 2007, 09:27:46 PM
trying to work around paying for the server...so Im going to use XAMPP
Title: Re: Forum making tut.
Post by: Roph on January 14, 2007, 09:33:19 PM
Quote from: Nouman6 on January 14, 2007, 09:27:46 PM
trying to work around paying for the server...so Im going to use XAMPP

Wrong attitude if you're serious =/.

If you're after cheap but good hosting, I have accounts with koreru (http://koreru.com) and freepgs (http://system.freepgs.com). Koreru is good but you pay monthly (I'm on the silver one, I host this (http://rg.slyph.org/) on it), freepgs is kinda slower and you're not as free, but the prices are one off.

Of course, the best control comes from owning your own server 8) but that takes bigger bucks.
Title: Re: Forum making tut.
Post by: Winged on January 20, 2007, 07:17:26 AM
There are some add-ons, sometime ago when I was looking for stuff for my previous forum I found a forum RPG thing. Although you had to pay, there was a version for free and its a great add-on.

http://infernotechnologies.net/

EDIT:
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Your forum system must be one of the following:

    * Invision Power Board 2.1.x
    * Invision Power Board 2.2.x
    * vBulletin 3.0.x (Note the RPG was frozen at v2.4 for this version)
    * vBulletin 3.5.x
    * vBulletin 3.6.x
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~Winged