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...

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...

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...

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...

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*

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thanks for the offer, I think I saw a tutorial on the VB site to do this. Thanks anyway

I do, thank you kindly.

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...

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...

I saw it listed as a possible way to attract visitors. So I was curious on people's thoughts on it potential effectiveness

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...

Dropped the link? What link?

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Great work cscgal and KeithMcL
Thank you so very much for making this available to us, it works perfectly!

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...

Actually looking further into it the original file name has a semi colon : in it. I'm wondering if that is causing a problem?

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...

okay thanks

nice job on the site too

Does this thread/method supercede the one started by cscgal?

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...

I notice there is another one started by another user. Do I use that one instead of this one?

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...