dadamssg Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 I have an idea for a website and want to incorporate a forum that has a layout like this site ( http://texags.com/main/forum.main.asp ). does anyone know how i should go about doing that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 You can usually skin the various forum software to make it look like you want. There are a few posts around here talking about free and paid forum software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Well most free forums have templates to choose from. You would have to go through them and find one that's similar to that look. PHPBB, for example, is an open source forum that has many many different styles to chose from. PHPBB3.0 Styles - In the upper right hand corner there's a drop down menu for styles. *** There are more styles for PHPBB 2.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Well most free forums have templates to choose from. You would have to go through them and find one that's similar to that look. PHPBB, for example, is an open source forum that has many many different styles to chose from. PHPBB3.0 Styles - In the upper right hand corner there's a drop down menu for styles. *** There are more styles for PHPBB 2.0 There are some pretty nice styles there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadamssg Posted December 12, 2008 Author Share Posted December 12, 2008 is there anyway you can break a phpBB forum up into different pages? For instance, have a page dedicated to one topic and have only have "Normal category 1" in that page. have a page dedicated to somethin else and have "normal category 2" there..etc.. anybody have any clue how to do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Sure. As long as you're using the same database. If you look at the PHPBB examples I gave you, you will notice that all the stats are the same because they're from the same database. You would have to add some custom code, after all it is open source... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadamssg Posted December 12, 2008 Author Share Posted December 12, 2008 thanks for the help, its much appreciated...im obvioulsy new at this stuff. I just have an idea and am tryin to run with it. Tryin to figure out the easiest way to do certain things. I don't know how to use dreamweaver and all 'code' is a foreign language to me. I think i can learn dreamweaver fairly quickly. But I feel like i should hire people to do what i want because i don't think i can accomplish everything i want by myself...learning all the code. but at the same time, i don't want to have my idea taken. Any strategy suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 I think i can learn dreamweaver fairly quickly. But I feel like i should hire people to do what i want because i don't think i can accomplish everything i want by myself. Noooooooooooooooo!!! Don't do it, Dreamweaver is awful. You should learn how to code yourself and come back with questions. You will be much better off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadamssg Posted December 12, 2008 Author Share Posted December 12, 2008 Where do i even BEGIN to start learning? Every "beginners tutorial" for coding seems far above my head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 I think i can learn dreamweaver fairly quickly. But I feel like i should hire people to do what i want because i don't think i can accomplish everything i want by myself. Noooooooooooooooo!!! Don't do it, Dreamweaver is awful. You should learn how to code yourself and come back with questions. You will be much better off. That's a pretty stupid statement. You can easily write code inside of dreamweaver. There is now support for multiple libraries and has many tools to make life easier. Using the correct tool for the job is what makes a good developer more productive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 That's a pretty stupid statement. You can easily write code inside of dreamweaver. I'm sorry, the code that Dreamweaver generates is awful... It doesn't even comply to W3 standards sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 That's a pretty stupid statement. You can easily write code inside of dreamweaver. I'm sorry, the code that Dreamweaver generates is awful... It doesn't even comply to W3 standards sometimes. You still don't understand, you can write you own code in dreamweaver. I don't use the WYSIWYG editor unless it will make some data entry faster such as filling in a table. You really shouldn't comment on something if you don't know what you are talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 You still don't understand, you can write you own code in dreamweaver. I don't use the WYSIWYG editor unless it will make some data entry faster such as filling in a table. You really shouldn't comment on something if you don't know what you are talking about. No, I understand that. I was referring to the WYSIWYG. When someone says: I think i can learn dreamweaver fairly quickly. makes me think they're using it with the WYSIWYG editor. I guess I'm just didn't interpret what dadamssg wrote. I use Dreamweaver myself, it's great to manage bigger projects, same with NetBeans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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