What does it takes to make a forum website ?

[Aladdin's]

I'm thinking of making a science forum , so what are the steps I should follow for doing this !?

 

I've heard that you must pay money for this , I've also heard that you can steal the design of a website and change text .. !?

 

Well , after surfing the net , there are several free making websites such as yola - - But I think that this must be learnt so it must take time , not minutes !!!

 

 

Thanks in advance,

Regards

 

 

[Dave]

I'm thinking of making a science forum , so what are the steps I should follow for doing this !?

 

Realistically, you're not going to get too much advice here about doing this

 

I've heard that you must pay money for this

 

We spend quite a bit of money on the infrastructure of SFN.

 

I've also heard that you can steal the design of a website and change text .. !?

 

I find this a little disturbing - copying artwork and soforth from other websites can potentially get you into quite a bit of trouble. Please don't do this.

[the tree]

I've also heard that you can steal the design of a website and change text .. !?

I find this a little disturbing - copying artwork and soforth from other websites can potentially get you into quite a bit of trouble. Please don't do this.

Honestly, if you can't work out to copy/paste a front-end by yourself, then you need to spend more time on basic computing skills before trying to build an interactive website.

 

We spend quite a bit of money on the infrastructure of SFN.

Well yeah, but a much smaller site could live off of free software such as phpbb, I'd say as a rule - hosting costs would be a bigger concern than software.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Indeed. We use commercial software, but the hosting costs end up being far more than the software cost in the long run.

[imatfaal]

happy birthday!

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Thanks