Forum: Growing an Online Community  Dec 21st, 2006 |
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| Forum: Website Reviews Dec 21st, 2006 |
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| Forum: Growing an Online Community Nov 22nd, 2006 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 4,628 Re: will people use a low traffic forum?
A niche forum is difficult to get off the ground initially. I have experienced this myself. However, if such a forum starts growing you might be one-of-a-kind, unique forum.
Keep at it and good luck... |
| Forum: PHP Oct 23rd, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 3,670 Re: PHP and MySQL newbie introducing self
Start off with something simple that you can explore in PHP and MySQL, like displaying a list of database items in a HTML table and then take it from there.
If you want some complex site, you can... |
| Forum: PHP Oct 22nd, 2006 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,923 Re: PHP Newbie
It would be best to download and install something like this:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
On Linux it's much easier and the preferred platform for Apache/PHP/MySQL development. |
| Forum: PHP Oct 22nd, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 3,498 Re: backup too big for phpmyadmin to upload?
IS there a direct backup/restore MySQL databases option in Plesk? If so, you should use that rather than phpmyadmin. I used CPanel and there was such an option to backup/restore MySQL databases... |
| Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Oct 22nd, 2006 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 3,529 Re: Word of mouth marketing is the best?
I've asked a few bloggers I know to spread the word about my new project. I also posted a message in my blog about this. Hopefully they will respond :)
So far I havent' got a single member in 3 days... |
| Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Oct 20th, 2006 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,139 Re: What does it take to pull in traffic?
I agree. It takes ages for search engines to index your site and then get your site a good rank.
In the meantime I propose you also use word-of-mouth promotion. Nothing too fancy, just tell your... |
| Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Oct 20th, 2006 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 3,529 Word of mouth marketing is the best?
Do you think that word of mouth marketing is the best option for promoting new forums, particularly when it's a niche forum which doesn't cater to a general audience and you cannot easily promote... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 19th, 2006 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,462 Re: Community web: a good idea?
I personally think this field is very competitive and you won't get much reward out of free hosting either.
If anything, I suggest that if you make a great script with great features, why not just... |
| Forum: Website Reviews Oct 19th, 2006 |
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| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 19th, 2006 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,960 Anybody know about this forum software?
I've discovered a great lightweight forum solution for one of my new projects: it's called usebb and it's available here:
http://www.usebb.net/
It's really so easy to theme and template and... |
| Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Oct 19th, 2006 |
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| Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Oct 19th, 2006 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 1,166 Too many forums?
I think even for a community this big, there are far too many forums and subforums in the forum index. :)
Please don't take this as a negative criticism - I appreciate all that daniweb has to offer,... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 18th, 2006 |
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| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 18th, 2006 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,788 Re: Multiple themes on a forum?
Yes, that makes sense. But I think guests should see only a single theme. :) Also theming a forum makes it less customizable because you need to apply modifications on all the themes. |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 17th, 2006 |
| Replies: 56 Views: 11,061 Re: Paying for posts
Forumguru, for many people it's not a question of choosing a service at all.
I think the point is that many of us don't feel comfortable or don't feel that it's right in asking any stranger to... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 17th, 2006 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,788 Multiple themes on a forum?
One of the things is that it reduces the "branding" of your community. When people look at the community the first thing they notice is the visual aspect and appeal of the site. Only then do they... |
| Forum: PHP Oct 17th, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,827 Simple article manager script in PHP I wrote
It uses a very simple PHP script to use text files as articles and directories as categories to build a website. It's a very simple CMS and uses no database to store anything. It doesn't have... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 17th, 2006 |
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| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 17th, 2006 |
| Replies: 56 Views: 11,061 Re: Paying for posts
Somehow I am not comfortable with the idea of asking people to post on my community unless I know them well. This goes both for paid posting as well as for post exchange kind of things.
I guess the... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 17th, 2006 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 8,275 Re: forum software
MyBB is another excellent script and it's improving by the day. Though it lacks third party hacks and customizations, it should be a good option for those looking for a free, but fairly feature-rich... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 17th, 2006 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 4,246 Re: Pr6 Pr7?
It's very hard to achieve PR > 5. Your site needs to be exceptionally well networked to get a higher page rank than 5. I would say 5 is a pretty decent rank and you'll get lots of keywords anyway. So... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 17th, 2006 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 2,192 Re: Just Wanna cry :( .....
Don't be too desperate when you start a community. Everything takes time to grow so in that perspective, you've made a pretty good start. Don't burn yourself out by trying too much. You'll end up... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Oct 17th, 2006 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,158 Re: Over 400 Members Hardly Any Posts
Getting registrations is no big deal. The biggest problem is making people stay and enjoy your community. This needs work, commitment and dedication over a period of time and does not happen... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community May 6th, 2006 |
| Replies: 81 Views: 15,092 Re: What Forum Do You Use?
I love the modding community at vBulletin.org. Some great plugins and 3.5.x makes it really easy to install/deinstall plugins. Extensions are great too. I'll be looking to add some soon! :)
BTW,... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community May 5th, 2006 |
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| Forum: Growing an Online Community Aug 16th, 2005 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 3,023 Pros and cons of karma/reputation system
Please give me your views on the pros and cons of having a karma/reputation system in a board.
Does it promote activity and encourage good posting and gives due recognition to good posters or is it... |
| Forum: Website Reviews Aug 8th, 2005 |
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| Forum: Website Reviews Jul 21st, 2005 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 2,626 Re: Redesigned my site/forum. Please review!
Thanks for the feedback. Can you tell me of any referral hacks available for phpBB? I tried a few, but I couldn't install them properly on my board.
By the way, yes, I've modded the board heavily to... |
| Forum: Website Reviews Jul 16th, 2005 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 2,626 Re: Redesigned my site/forum. Please review!
Electrohead04, your feedback is much appreciated. Thanks a dozen. :D
As regards the graphical elements, you're right, it is a bit stripped down, but I felt that I needed to reduce load times so I... |
| Forum: Website Reviews Jul 6th, 2005 |
| Replies: 24 Views: 5,687 Re: HELP!! Please review my new website.
Nice site. Just a little suggestion, though. I'm not a big fan of flash/animation/3rd party plugins. It's not exactly compliant with web standards and one cannot view it without browser plugins. Also... |
| Forum: Website Reviews Jul 6th, 2005 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 2,626 |
| Forum: Website Reviews Jul 5th, 2005 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 2,626 Re: Redesigned my site/forum. Please review!
It is a phpBB site, but it is heavily hacked and of course I redesigned the default template and created the new images by hand.
Thanks for the feedback, by the way! :)
Regards. |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community Jul 4th, 2005 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 3,842 Re: Deleting members
Banning is better than deleting because you can keep a handle on the IPs of the posters and such.
Besides, banning is reversible. Deleting is irreversible. Never delete. I don't get that many... |
| Forum: Website Reviews Jul 2nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 1,194 Re: Back for a New Review
Good colour scheme, good layout and tasteful design. Although I don't have any idea what you site is about, it has a good, integrated look to it. Professionally done. |
| Forum: Website Reviews Jul 2nd, 2005 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 2,626 Redesigned my site/forum. Please review!
Hi there,
I have recently redesigned my forum-based website (phpBB)
www.literaryforums.org
Please offer your feedback and suggestions regarding design, template/colours etc.
Thanks |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community May 26th, 2005 |
| Replies: 81 Views: 15,092 Re: What Forum Do You Use?
I don't believe that the content or quality of a site is determined by the board software.
I think everything boils down to the admin interface and features. That's the difference. No ordinary user... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community May 26th, 2005 |
| Replies: 81 Views: 15,092 Re: What Forum Do You Use?
Are you implying that those of us who cannot afford vBulletin are "flashes in the pan"? I don't get the logic of recommending vBulletin on these lines. Who says a serious community requires... |
| Forum: Growing an Online Community May 25th, 2005 |
| Replies: 67 Views: 18,515 Re: Would you pay to advertise your forum?
My experience with AdSense has shown me that AdWords is worse than useless.
Nobody clicks on the google ads. Absolutely nobody. It's not worth spending any money to advertise because people turn off... |
