please help with website developement?

Born Wild · Feb 14, 2003

Hi all!

Can someone please advise me on what program this website was created on... http://www.comicbookforum.com/forum/

where can i try a sample download? and do i need to know HTML to use it??

your help would be very much appreciated!

Many thanks,
BW

:razz:

peter · Feb 14, 2003

That is a forum system called phpBB.
You Don't "create it in a program in html", you code in PHP.

And by the way, that project has taken thousands of manhours, so it's not something to aim for as a newbie.

Start out by the html-basics and move on untill you know it good.
Then proceed to a server-sida language (php, asp, jsp, cf etc)

to download it, just go to www.phpbb.com

Born Wild · Feb 14, 2003

Thanks for the reply icehole, i think i'll give that one a miss... very impressive thou!

Cheers,
BW

DomainPairs · Feb 15, 2003

If you want to teach yourself html, there is a great free program here

http://www.evrsoft.com/

Chelsea · Feb 15, 2003

Originally posted by DomainPairs
If you want to teach yourself html, there is a great free program here

http://www.evrsoft.com/

Obviously not available at the moment, coz I wanted to try that one too.

oohdale · Feb 15, 2003

Originally posted by Born Wild
Hi all!

Can someone please advise me on what program this website was created on... http://www.comicbookforum.com/forum/

where can i try a sample download? and do i need to know HTML to use it??

your help would be very much appreciated!

Many thanks,
BW

:razz:

http://www.w3schools.com/ You spend 1 hour a day here and study all the tags and practice them and learn the simple tables too and do it all by hand coding and in a sort time you can build your own website with pages galore and all from memory I guarantee it. Those HTML editors are ok but to learn from scratch and day by day learn to hand code every line and Break and every tag line and end tag, you will never be able to put a price on that education. I know that's how I learned it. I learned to make tables his year alone and to use borders with colors and to use font color=#FFFF33 tags too -- and to use image properties from memoory like alt="Foowebsites" or noshade lines with widths and heights properties. I am saying it will happen for you if you learn it all by hand coding. Now there are some limitations to this and it's free scripts Java and CSS sheets. But hey I did it and if I can do it at age 53 then anyone can do it.http://www.w3schools.com/

oohdale · Feb 15, 2003

Originally posted by Born Wild
Hi all!

Can someone please advise me on what program this website was created on... http://www.comicbookforum.com/forum/

where can i try a sample download? and do i need to know HTML to use it??

your help would be very much appreciated!

Many thanks,
BW

:razz:

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> This I got off their home page by right clicking on that page and clicking on view source then by coping and pasting that information into Easypad not "Note pad" for it changes the html sometimes. And there is lesson number #1 -- this you can do right now and look at anyones source codes for free if they have not disabled that option in there html on their source codes by using s script to do that. !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" ----
html dir="ltr"> -----
<head ------
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" -----
meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" -------

link rel="top" href="index.php" title="" / ------ <link rel="search" href="search.php" title="" / ------
link rel="help" href="faq.php" title="" /> -----
link rel="author" href="memberlist.php" title="" / ------

title>ComicbookForum.com :: Index</title ------ Here are some samples from that page --- I have removed the tag front and ends so you can view them here..... You know this will probably be way over your head right now but if you will stay with me on this --- next month or next year you will look back on this day and say Wow this guy was right on ----.

DomainPairs · Feb 15, 2003

Originally posted by chase

Obviously not available at the moment, coz I wanted to try that one too.

That's a bummer, I've told a lot of people to use it.

Were are you in GB?

thinkaholic · Feb 15, 2003

There's a link at the very bottom of each page with a link to PHPBB. PHPBB is open source, therefore, it is free and there are many volunteers involved in the development.

ComicBookForum.com is currently for sale on Ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2507518504

Originally posted by Born Wild
Hi all!

Can someone please advise me on what program this website was created on... http://www.comicbookforum.com/forum/

where can i try a sample download? and do i need to know HTML to use it??

your help would be very much appreciated!

Many thanks,
BW

:razz:

namegame · Feb 15, 2003

This site offers a free forum for your website - nothing fancy - not as elaborate as paid software - but it's a start http://www.bravenet.com/samples/forum.php

adoptabledomains · Feb 16, 2003

Originally posted by Born Wild
Thanks for the reply icehole, i think i'll give that one a miss... very impressive thou!

Cheers,
BW

Actually, phpBB is pretty easy to install, and once installed very simple to maintain. As you get more confortable with it you can add lots of modifications. It's a Forum software just like this forum. I actually like using it better than vBulletin from an end user standpoint. You do have to have a host that supports PHP and mySQL database. It can also be turned into a portal system and there are some modifications to use it with the PostNuke portal.

If you are interested, I am a reseller of hosting on which I can set this up on your domain. Before pricing it, I'd need to know your use and potential space & bandwidth needs. PM me if interested. Here's a couple sites I've set up recently using phpBB:

http://www.uwphotographer.com/forum
http://www.gavia.com/forum

Born Wild · Feb 17, 2003

Thank you all so very much for your input!... i found this very helpful!!

Sorry... oohdale, couldn't reply to you PM to say thanks!

Cheers,
BW

oohdale · Feb 17, 2003

You see that's what is so great about places like this, we can get help from those that care and like to help. Thanks guys!

Sa far as the PM thingy -- I don't know. Maybe I need to post more and I could get me a Vhotovar. :shy:

.com.net.org · Feb 18, 2003

Originally posted by oohdale
http://www.w3schools.com/ You spend 1 hour a day here and study all the tags and practice them and learn the simple tables too and do it all by hand coding and in a sort time you can build your own website with pages galore and all from memory I guarantee it. Those HTML editors are ok but to learn from scratch and day by day learn to hand code every line and Break and every tag line and end tag, you will never be able to put a price on that education. I know that's how I learned it. I learned to make tables his year alone and to use borders with colors and to use font color=#FFFF33 tags too -- and to use image properties from memoory like alt="Foowebsites" or noshade lines with widths and heights properties. I am saying it will happen for you if you learn it all by hand coding. Now there are some limitations to this and it's free scripts Java and CSS sheets. But hey I did it and if I can do it at age 53 then anyone can do it.http://www.w3schools.com/

w3schools.com is very easy to learn and very good place to start. Level : Beginner - Novice.
When I forgot about what tag or what attributes, I'll go there.
And they have handy 'Tryit Editor'.

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