I guess if you have a good enought built system you would be able to detect that.



And having a dedicated team, who would pick up on that thread or and act according to the rules and/or...

Do you delete unactive members who havent logged in for a couple of months?

Make Flyers
Tell Freinds and Family
Bumpersticker on your car
Apperal

I would think that you would get a lot of spammers and a lot of very off topic posts.

I am working on a site for a school project and all I have access to is php and html. I would like to be able to run some MySQL - but I am unable to find a place that will remotly host it for me....

Free domains - these only work as forwarders....

www.dot.tk
www.uni.cc

I have just bookmarked the page that I visit regulary (Which is the Building a Community List)

Try www.hotscripts.com, they have a good 100+ of different billing scripts on different platforms (ASP, ASP.net, PHP etc...)

Cutenews (www.cutephp.com) if you want something quick and easy to use (PHP Only).
For the lil bit more advance/features try WordPress (www.wordpress.org - PHP&MySQL)
For a CMS, personal I would...

Depends on what advertising we are using.......

My sites visitors/members are all mostly attracted by stickers, posters and T-shirts that have been seen in the loacl area. Did everything myself,...

If a pop under occured once when a site visited the forum and some big flashy banners for guests - with a link, join here to get rid of the ads -
but the members had smaller, less details ones -...

Okay first things first.
Lets work onyear Page Rank. Using your keywords find sites with the same ones (Use both Google and MSN Search). See if you can link exchange with those sites.
Make a...

As someone said that I do not know the name of.......
Rome Wasn't Built in a Day
Don't expect much to happen overnight.

Or create a usergoup that has differnt permissions ofr different ammount of posts
10 posts - able to view pitcures
20 posts - able to upload pic
1,000 posts - upgrade of space limit

Unless you know a New Zealander - Yeah you might know me.

There are millions of articles floating around the net on SEO. Mainly for communities, Google or MSN search for them :D.

If you have a look in your templates, you will find some <if> and <else> statments from memory (your navbar is your best bet).
They hold other values of what user/usergroups see whats.

There is a hack lie that called Cutsom Pages. It can be found found at vbulletin.org (Don't know if this is breaching rules etc - If it is, welcome to remove it) - there are also loads of other hacks.

Host Affecion (Host Affect) - they have $15US per year for 300MB.

Did it work - Can you give us your stats before and after the compertition????

Is it worth having a forum that allows the members and guests to talk to each other?

Would it have any positive or negative values?

As a couple of people said in the Admin Zone - You are paying $100 for maybe a handfull or new members/users.

THE "ALL-SEEING EYE" CONSPIRACY?
Much has been written about the origins of the Great Seal of the United States on the back of the one dollar bill.

* Why a pyramid... an arguably un-American...

I was hopefully add more features to my search engine (aint posting the name, rules of the bored). Then I came up with an idea of a portal. Yet I do not know what to offer.
Thanks for the advice...

What are people looking for in a portal/community/cms site???

more ads around the place?

Umm, Right -
I dont think that the geekziod sterotype of Large glasses, small frame, and pimples applies to me, and I do have a life outside of this office - one that I enjoy :D. And I'm sure that...

Ever heard of advertising????

Why dont you juct create a forum for each so it will be like:

Schools (Sub Header)
- Name of School/Area 1
- Name of School/Area 2
- Name of School/Area 3

And then just open up galleries...