Creating a Forum Like This?

[lisa]

Yep...this board wasn't cheap. LOL The standard vbulletin script is not SEO friendly. I had to buy vbseo (the plugin) and I just installed it yesterday. It has a ton of cool features like as the Admin I can see what external sites are linking to each individual thread and a ton of other cool things.

You would clean up if you could come up with some kind of script and offered much cheaper than vbseo. A lot of webmasters complain about the price of vbseo but then again no one has really come out with anything that can compete as far as I'm concerned. There was a free script out there, but I just felt more comfortable with vbseo after talking with some other webmasters that use it.

And the cool thing is it merges very nicely into the vbulletin Admin panel and you can tell a lot of work went into it.

[Mary]

I am trying to find out the main differences between these two types of forums. I am familiar with vbulletin from using it, but am looking for a way to create a forum that is very secure. I want to determine who can visit it and keep the content from being available to the public. I also need to make it look like the site that it will be attached to. Any advice is helpful.

Also, i see vbulletin used in a lot of places and they all look the same. I'm wondering if this is because users don't have much control over what the site looks like??

Mary

[lisa]

Hi and welcome, Mary

I believe you can do all of what you want with vbulletin. It's secure and I believe there is an option to manually approve new registrations to control who becomes a member. And if you don't want it visible to the public then there is a feature to only allow members to view the threads/discussions.

As far as design, you have complete control. Most people either don't want to go through the steps to incorporate it into their design or don't know how. It does take some tweaking and adding HTML/CSS to the footer/header templates of the forum but it is completely do-able and the "Admin panel" tells you where to edit the code to edit the header, body and footer of the forum. You can also change the colors of the forums if you'd like.

Vbulletin also has a nice members forum you can use if you want help with customization and other options. It's a very powerful piece of software and I bet I haven't used half of its features.

[Mary]

Great. Thanks Lisa!

[GreenThumb]

Hey Lisa, just curious. We may be buying one of these for our church site for various groups to discuss different events. We have someone to install/setup the board but he will not be able to administer it for us all the time, someone else who is non technical will be maintaining it. Would you say you need to have programming experience to maintain the board? Like when you added the new forums, etc? Is that complicated?

[lisa]

It's very simple to maintain. There is an Admin area that is very user friendly and no tech experience needed. To add a forum you simply go to the forum manager and select "Add a Forum". You can also arrange the way the forums are displayed and add sub forums with ease. I assure you it's very easy.

[Lajocar]

It is good and well to build a forum, but you will have to take into consideration spam. This is a frustrating problem.

Some web hosts have programs like cpanel installed on their servers. All that you will need to do is select e.g. PHPBB and install it. It is free with your hosting.

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