Daecon Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 Hey everyone, lately I've been thinking that I'd like to try making my own message board/forum website, however I don't actually know anything about how I would go about doing this. I figure the best way to get advice would be to ask someone who knows, which is why I'm posting here. Perhaps the founders of ScienceForums.net would be able to offer a fledgling potential board owner some information on how I'd actually go about setting up a website like this one?
ecoli Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 what? and let you steal our precious web traffic? NEVER!
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 First, ask yourself a few questions: What's your audience? You'll need to scope out the competition to see if you can make a site that offers something better. How big do you want this to be? If it's a small deal, you can find a free forum host and go for it (Google for some). How much are you willing to pay? If you want your own domain, you'll have to spend $10/year for that, plus probably $15 or so per month for a cheap shared hosting plan. What forum software do you want? vBulletin (which SFN uses) costs something like $180 (I haven't checked in a while). phpBB is free and pretty nice. There are loads of other options as well. Are you willing and able to put in a good bit of spare time to running the site? Once you decide what software/hosting option you'd like to go with (free hosting or paid) I can give you some more advice.
Daecon Posted January 29, 2009 Author Posted January 29, 2009 It's more of a whim really, but I was thinking about something similar to the old Philosophy & Religion board that used to be on here: "Answers in Abiogenesis - Where Religion meets Reality". But I do have a lot of free time to put in if I actually decide to go through with it. I guess I'd probably start off with a small board for free and see how it goes. It's probably not going to be worth spending any money until I've learned a bit more about how to run one.
Mr Skeptic Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 It's more of a whim really, but I was thinking about something similar to the old Philosophy & Religion board that used to be on here: "Answers in Abiogenesis - Where Religion meets Reality". Haha, great pun.
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