What are the advantages to having a forum?
Forums permit your customers and potential customers to discuss issues. They get the chance to ask questions and make comments while reading the responses from others. This will probably relieve your support/customer service departments of some unnecessary work, and users find it to be convenient.
In addition, it's a great way to obtain free links for Search Engine Ranking.
Why phpBB?
There is no charge. Licenses do not need to be purchased. phpBB is free to the public. Besides the program (source code) being unencrypted, the license allows you to alter it or add new code as desired. To make more major alterations, you will need to possess some PHP expertise.
Setting up phpBB
The forum software can be installed as soon as you download it. You will need some knowledge to perform the initial install -- that is, unless you are lucky enough to have a website host that has Fantastico installed on its server already. It takes only a few seconds for Fantastico to automatically install phpBB. After that, just a bit of configuration is needed before you can activate your forum. If you'd prefer to install it yourself, you must be or become knowledgeable about such things as setting file and folder permissions, FTP, and setting up a MySQL database.
Personalize: Altering the look or functionality.
Alternative themes can be selected to change the appearance and tone of your phpBB forum. The majority of them do not cost anything or ask for donations. If you have the confidence, you can make your own or change your current theme.
You can get assistance when necessary from phpBB's user forums. Another option is to hire a programmer to make the adjustments as they are needed. It's not hard to find good PHP programmers and they are amazingly affordable.
Forums permit your customers and potential customers to discuss issues. They get the chance to ask questions and make comments while reading the responses from others. This will probably relieve your support/customer service departments of some unnecessary work, and users find it to be convenient.
In addition, it's a great way to obtain free links for Search Engine Ranking.
Why phpBB?
There is no charge. Licenses do not need to be purchased. phpBB is free to the public. Besides the program (source code) being unencrypted, the license allows you to alter it or add new code as desired. To make more major alterations, you will need to possess some PHP expertise.
Setting up phpBB
The forum software can be installed as soon as you download it. You will need some knowledge to perform the initial install -- that is, unless you are lucky enough to have a website host that has Fantastico installed on its server already. It takes only a few seconds for Fantastico to automatically install phpBB. After that, just a bit of configuration is needed before you can activate your forum. If you'd prefer to install it yourself, you must be or become knowledgeable about such things as setting file and folder permissions, FTP, and setting up a MySQL database.
Personalize: Altering the look or functionality.
Alternative themes can be selected to change the appearance and tone of your phpBB forum. The majority of them do not cost anything or ask for donations. If you have the confidence, you can make your own or change your current theme.
You can get assistance when necessary from phpBB's user forums. Another option is to hire a programmer to make the adjustments as they are needed. It's not hard to find good PHP programmers and they are amazingly affordable.
About the Author:
Stephen Grisham, Sr. is a copy writer for InfoServe Media, LLC. InfoServe Media is a Houston web design company and hosting company. Or if you just need a few changes to an existing site, InfoServe Media also offers website maintenance.
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