How To Build Your Own Forum

Well First Of All What are forums ??


An Internet forum is a facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions, or the web application software used to provide the facility. Web-based forums, which date from around 1995, perform a similar function as the dial-up bulletin boards and Internet newsgroups that were numerous in the 1980s and 1990s. A sense of virtual community often develops around forums that have regular users. Technology, computer games, and politics are popular areas for forum themes, but there are forums for a huge number of different topics

Internet forums are also commonly referred to as web forums, message boards, discussion boards, discussion forums, discussion groups, bulletin boards (but see also dial-up bulletin boards), fora (the Latin plural) or simply forums.


Who Need Them?


In the recent times Forums have been known for the best online entertainment Package that gives yo everything that you look for on the internet at only a single place.. I Heartly thnx to al Webmasters Those who Build up a forum for the Noobs and other people to help them out


Now Enough Of It Plz.. Let me take To Procedures


Ok Ok Coming To It ...

Well Today a lots of softwares for forums have been designed

Example Phpbb, InvisionPowerboard,Vbulletin,Smf and a hell lots more

Well So we will be discussing each of them in a short that how to make them

Steps will be easy and simple So Dont worry at all

Well there are basically two ways ( for each of the software for forums ) to make up an own forum ....

Well if you would like your forum to be done for free you have to sacrifise on some things

You can easily make up your own free forums of each softwares by vistig these sites

PHPBB



You Can Simply design your PhPbb Forums Here :

http://www.forumforfree.com/
http://www.freeforum101.com/

But you have to sacrifise on one thing here and that is having your own desired url and their terms and conditions..

Like you cant post warez porn etc.. on these forums and secondly you will have a url called subdomain which will be like on theor company name

for example of you wanna make a forum called x-warez

and you are building up your forum from forumsforfree

you will get subdomain like x-warez.forumsforfree.com n that is simply not impressive

Moving To V-Buletin And Invison Power Board

amongst both of them Invision power board is simply the most putstanding and largest selling software for forums today

You can build up your own forums with Ipb

on invisionfree.com

and much more you can google it

Now what a person should look for when he/she is going to build up a forum

Well clearly speaking no subjects are left today to build up your won forums for ..

Porn and warez and music is everywhere and over 100 forums opens per day on these same subjects but still the subject remains to you

Now the main question still arises what a noob should Do ??

Ok Here We Go For that ::

Well first of all if you agree that you wanna make free forums without spending a single penny then go for the abouve mentioned free forums builders they are sufficient for you

But if you are not willing to sacrifise your dreams for your own forums so you will be needing 3 main things....

1. Firstly you will be needing a domain

you an easily purchase a new domain varying from 3-10 $ from any of the given trusted websites

http://godaddy.com
http://whois.net
http://hostgator.com

for more use google

2. Now you will be needing a server that means a hdd you can say where all your files will be stored up on

Again you can go for buying a serve to

http://godaddy.com
http://hostgator.com
http://servage.net

and lots more use google again

Now the most important thing befor you go for a server to buy is that which software of forum you will be using
They all will be needing sql 4 or 5 , Php 4 or 5 , Perl any version and rest a simple cpanel ...

Note : Invision Power Boards do not run On My-sql 5 So Dont buy a server with sql 5 if you are choosing Invision power baord..

3. And lastly you will be needing forum softwares....

I Strictly insist you to buy a legal software , i know they cost money but if you will be using illegal softwares or nulled boards you can be traced easily and youe forum can be removed from your server witout any warning..

You can Buy Forum Softwares From These Sites :

PHPBB -->> http://phpbb.com its 100% free no charge at all
Invision Power Board-->> http://invisionpower.com
V-Bulletin-->> Http://www.vbulletin.com


Now each software you download will be conatining the installation instructionw within them

Follow them and enjoy your oown forums

Well I Tried my level best to describe all the needs to build up an forum but i am still not satisfies so i will be updating this thread again as soon as i get the time ....

On those posts i will be explaing differences between , Shared hosting , Virtual Hosting , Dedicated Hosting ...



Till then Enjoy and have a Good Time