how2 develope bulleton board

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Gawd
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The director of student affairs was telling me today that she might want a bulletin board on the associated student's webpage in the future.

errrrr... yeah. so, what's the most simple way of going about developing and maintaning one?

I have to go to some web accessibilty training seminar to revise the site so that it is more suited for people with disability.
but in the mean time, I would like to try and develope one as a beta, so i can get the hang of it. It would be nice if it can be runned from my own server. That way, I can run it off the school's server and not have to risk any issues with privacy.

PS: I use Front Page. yay MS!
 
You're not going to want to write your own forum software. It's very complex and error prone. Why non just make use of what people have already written?

This forum uses vBulletin. phpbb is anything forum. invision power boards is yet another. The list goes on.

Do some research about which operating system, server software, database, and scripting language you wish to use. Consider what you already know and what you're willing to learn and move forward from there. I jugde (perhaps unfairly) from your post that you've never done anything like this before. It may be a little much to simply jump in and write your forum. Start small and learn what everything does first.
 
I agree with ZeroX, your post sounds like you want a Linux style HOW-TO document leading you through how to create one heh.

As for useing Frontpage ..........
:eek:
 
get a web host that supports PHP and MySQL then decide on a forum to install, I like phpBB but haven't used others much. Try to follow the guide provided by the makers of the forum on how to set it up, then if having problems ask here or at the makers of the forum.

Bit simplistic but hope it helps, as said above writing your own would be a big task and if done wrong could cause lots of problems (such as security and reliability issues).
 
thanks guys.

I was told to play around with phpbb.com and ikonboard.com because they are free.
 
phpbb is great, it's what I use and the community is very active with their mods. I also use FP, mainly for the design aspect. :p
 
you might also want to look at WebWiz if you want a good .ASP based forum
 
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