Forum: Growing an Online Community  Mar 4th, 2005 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 6,958 Re: Generating Registered Forum Users
I can't even get my moderators to post let alone my members. How hard is this!! Surely with over 90 members someone would feel the urge to post? But nope they all just sit there silently.
Pfft this... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 22nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 67 Views: 19,866 Re: Would you pay to advertise your forum?
I hadn't thought of that. The difficulty there is finding a site with the right potential target audience. It's one thing to have link everywhere, its another to have value links that attract... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 22nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 67 Views: 19,866 Re: Would you pay to advertise your forum?
That makes sense. I have ad sense up but its well lets just say it's not so good.
Also I'm not sure but I think I'm technically not allowed to make money of my site. It's a fan site that is given... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 22nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 47 Views: 9,691 Re: How involved should an admin be?
That's going to be a large issue though. The site is named quite literally after you. Unless you hand over to another Dani or a cyber version there of (Dani the forum robot ;) ) it will become... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 22nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 47 Views: 9,691 Re: How involved should an admin be?
Yeah I realise, but err never mind I just realised how old this thread was. Sorry to be dragging up old stuff
*sits in the corner and shuts up now* |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 22nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 67 Views: 19,866 Re: Would you pay to advertise your forum?
Not at all. My site makes $0 so the likelihood of me forking over cash to advertise isn't going to happen.
Sure advertising it gets it's noticed more but if you don't sell anything on your site at... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 22nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 47 Views: 9,691 Re: How involved should an admin be?
Maybe you should look at getting an admin partner. Someone who will be more forum admin based while you do all the other bits and pieces that need doing. Perhaps even offering to sell 5% or 10% of... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Feb 22nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 6,958 Re: Generating Registered Forum Users
I'm sort of in a different situation now. Since I last posted above, I've got 80 members. My problem now is getting them to actually post!
If even half of them became regular posters it would be a... |
| Forum: PHP Jan 25th, 2005 |
| Replies: 131 Views: 38,724 Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial
Hello,
I've just discovered a small problem.
One of my threads spans 4 pages. The little links at the bottom of the thread that you can click to get to individual pages shows up (you know they have... |
| Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Dec 28th, 2004 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 3,092 Re: nice site
Thanks for the offer, I think I saw a tutorial on the VB site to do this. Thanks anyway |
| Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Dec 28th, 2004 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 3,092 |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Dec 18th, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 4,975 Re: your thoughts on my competition?
Thanks for the advice :)
*scrap idea of offering money*
I'm actually getting contant from the game publish now (the forum is a fan site for a game), so I'll use that content as the means to attract... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Dec 17th, 2004 |
| Replies: 23 Views: 7,920 Re: Images in signatures
People on dial up connections suffer extreme slowness when signatures are too big. The time it takes for them to download the signatures they could have read the thread and posted or moved on to the... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Dec 17th, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 4,975 |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Dec 16th, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 4,975 Re: your thoughts on my competition?
Ah okay. He could have gone and signed up etc but wouldn't have been paid any money. In my original post I said I was toying with the idea - as in thinking about running it - not that I was actually... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Dec 16th, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 4,975 |
| Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Dec 16th, 2004 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 3,092 Re: nice site
So much for me not looking too dumb then :P
I didn't realise we could play with the CSS file of the forum
Thank you again |
| Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Dec 16th, 2004 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 3,092 Re: nice site
Without looking too dumb. What's the CSS tage that can be included in that way?
I know with the old font tages it was pretty easy:
<font color=> type thing but whats the CSS alternative? I know how... |
| Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 3,092 Re: nice site
Standard HTML works? So all members of the "Blah" group can be :
<strong></strong>
<font color=pink></font>
etc? Hmm on second thoughts, I don't want to use the font tag, so maybe I'll give that... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 4,975 your thoughts on my competition?
Hi there
I have been toying with the idea to run a competition to attract new members to my forum. Seems like a shame to have a shiney new forum sitting there with no one on it after all :)
So the... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 28 Views: 6,958 Re: Generating Registered Forum Users
15 members in 4 days isn't good? I would say that was pretty good myself.
I've had my forum up for nearly a month and have a grand total of 8 members. |
| Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 3,092 nice site
Great site you have here cscgal, well done.
I have a question about your VB mods :)
1. How do you make the different username in different colours? For example in the "Who's online" thing at the... |
| Forum: PHP Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 131 Views: 38,724 |
| Forum: PHP Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 131 Views: 38,724 Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial
Okay yep that was it. Because I had the : in there it didn't know how to handle that in traditional HTML format. Removing that fixed it. i could also have two forums with the same name because of the... |
| Forum: PHP Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 131 Views: 38,724 |
| Forum: PHP Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 131 Views: 38,724 Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial
Small issue.
I did everything, ran it, looked fine got error pages. Changed the .htaccess as suggested by another poster - looked great.
One problem remains
One of my forum "headers" and one of my... |
| Forum: PHP Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 131 Views: 38,724 |
| Forum: PHP Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 131 Views: 38,724 |
| Forum: PHP Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 131 Views: 38,724 Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial
Easy way to check if it's working or not is to upload the phpinfo file. Search the results for mod_rewrite. If it's listed an installed module under the Apache heading then it's there and running, if... |
| Forum: PHP Dec 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 238 Views: 75,240 |
| Forum: PHP Dec 14th, 2004 |
| Replies: 238 Views: 75,240 Re: vBulletin mod_rewrite
Sorry to sound dumb here, but which mod works?
In other words do I follow the orignal, or the second one cscgal started? The one TedS did or do I combine the two?
My forum is new, and with no... |
