At Admin Sphere, we have evaluated three popular forum scripts. One could say these represent 3 of the big 4 general purpose packages available on the market. The 4th is Invision Power Board (IPB), but we don’t have a license for it at the moment. To help people who are deciding which software to use for a new forum, we compare phpBB, SMF, and vB with each other to determine what features each package offeres and what features are lacking. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for December, 2007
Are you interested in creating a forum? Do you want thousands of people to join and post and talk about the subjects that matter to you? So you’re excited and begin to think of all the things you need to do to make your forum. It’s going to be on the Internet so it needs a website host. It needs some forum software. It needs a name. But wait. Hold on. Be careful. Maybe you want to make a good forum, but in your zeal, you might actually be making a bad forum. We’ll go over how you can create a bad forum so that perhaps when making your forum, you will do the opposite of these steps. Let’s take a humorous look at how to create a bad forum. Read the rest of this entry »
Perhaps you visited a forum and became a member to gain some information about a subject. Maybe you joined to find other like-minded people to talk about the things that are interesting to you. Well, it’s been several months or even years since the forum got started, and now it’s not as active as it used to be. Or maybe not even active at all. How do you know if the forum has already seen its best days and is in its last legs? Can it be revitalized? Is it worth your time to spend on the forum anymore? Let’s look at the signs that a forum has “Jumped the Shark”. Read the rest of this entry »
The advent of the Content Management System (CMS) has brought professional web creation to the masses. Just a few years ago, web design meant self-coding or using a package such as Frontpage or Dreamweaver. While these solutions offer the website creator a way to build the front page relatively easily, managing a full-featured site quickly becomes overwhelming when additions are required. For a simple example, a website with many pages must duplicate the menu if it is done in html. If one were to add an extra menu item, one would have to do it for every page which turns into a content management nightmare. The alternative is to build the menu server side, for which php, ASP and similar technologies are used. And that leads us to the CMS. Read the rest of this entry »