message board recomendations please

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hi all
i am looking at building a small site for a not for profit
organisation
they have in their spec, the inclusion of a message board or
discussion forum...there seem to be plenty out there and a lot of
freebies....not having used one before am hoping for specific
recomendations.....hopefully it could be set up to reflect the style
of the rest of the site so users would not feel disconected from the
original site ...
could anybody recomend a board either cheap to buy or even free..
thanks in advance for any info provided
will be using frontpage as the development tool

ray
 
Ray said:
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they have in their spec, the inclusion of a message board or
discussion forum...
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which do you want?
there seem to be plenty out there and a lot of
freebies....not having used one before am hoping for specific
recomendations.....
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need to know a little about your server first, but in general take a look at
hotscripts
 
First, depending on your needs and if your site is hosted on a FP enabled
web server and you can create subwebs, you can use the FP Discussion Web
under File Menu | New | Web | Discussion Web and add it to the current site
as a subweb.

If you are not hosted on a FP enabled web server, then you need to first
determine what type of server, and what type of server-side scripting
language is supported, such as ASP, PHP, CGI-Perl, then you can begin your
search.

--

==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================
 
Ray said:
hi all
i am looking at building a small site for a not for profit
organisation
they have in their spec, the inclusion of a message board or
discussion forum...there seem to be plenty out there and a lot of
freebies....not having used one before am hoping for specific
recomendations.....hopefully it could be set up to reflect the style
of the rest of the site so users would not feel disconected from the
original site ...
could anybody recomend a board either cheap to buy or even free..
thanks in advance for any info provided
will be using frontpage as the development tool
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If you have Php and MySql you cant go past Envision Power Board from
http://www.invisionboard.com/

Its Free and it is skinable so you can give it the look and feel of your
current site.

And it is almost bullet proof!
 
Ray said:
hi all
i am looking at building a small site for a not for profit
organisation
they have in their spec, the inclusion of a message board or
discussion forum...there seem to be plenty out there and a lot of
freebies....not having used one before am hoping for specific
recomendations.....hopefully it could be set up to reflect the style
of the rest of the site so users would not feel disconected from the
original site ...
could anybody recomend a board either cheap to buy or even free..
thanks in advance for any info provided
will be using frontpage as the development tool

ray
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I found one that is free, and a lot more professional than some out there and
you host it yourself (it is a Perl/CGI script) as long as you have the know-how
to install it, it takes a bit of effort, but has detailed instructions.

http://www.yabbforum.com

To some extent, this can be customised to match the layout of your site....and I
don't think you even need a link back to the author's site, but I suppose that is
a customary thing to do - anyway, no large banner advertising or anything like
that. At any rate, it only really has a header-banner telling you it is a
formum, and not much more than that. Excellent and looks like most of those
remote-hosted forums. The best one I know of.

take a look at this :
http://www.applecross.perth.anglican.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi

Or else if you want something less complex, frontpage has a "discussion group"
element built in but that it may not be exactly what you want.

If you can't host cgi scripts, I don't know if there are any others out there
(obviously you can have them custom-written, or use a remote-hosted one, but as
you said, you don't want to detract from the actual site too much and the remote
hosting ones don't allow much flexibility to design around your site design.)
 
In alt.www.webmaster a creature called Ray once said:
hi all
i am looking at building a small site for a not for profit
organisation
they have in their spec, the inclusion of a message board or
discussion forum...there seem to be plenty out there and a lot of
freebies....not having used one before am hoping for specific
recomendations.....hopefully it could be set up to reflect the style
of the rest of the site so users would not feel disconected from the
original site ...
could anybody recomend a board either cheap to buy or even free..
thanks in advance for any info provided
will be using frontpage as the development tool
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www.hotscripts.com have a click about.
 
i am looking at building a small site for a not for profit
organisation
they have in their spec, the inclusion of a message board or
discussion forum...there seem to be plenty out there and a lot of
freebies....not having used one before am hoping for specific
recomendations
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Try this one, it's extremely good and very versatile. the best I've seen
around - In my opinion.

http://www.webwizguide.info/web_wiz_forums/default.asp

Chris
 
hi all
i am looking at building a small site for a not for profit organisation
they have in their spec, the inclusion of a message board or discussion
forum...there seem to be plenty out there and a lot of freebies....not
having used one before am hoping for specific
recomendations.....hopefully it could be set up to reflect the style of
the rest of the site so users would not feel disconected from the
original site ...
could anybody recomend a board either cheap to buy or even free.. thanks
in advance for any info provided will be using frontpage as the
development tool

ray
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I've used a discussion board called "Discus" (developed by the Hope
University Chemistry Department) and like it. It's free to use and fairly
simple to install. It includes a lot of features your client will like.

http://www.discusware.com/

--George
 
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