I wanna forum - Page 1

Jan 18th, 2011 at 12:50 PM
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Tonethemoan
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Hi all, I started a discussion forum external from my own website, on Yahoo. It is horrible and I shall get rid, before it starts to grow.
I downloaded a trial of live chat from CC but that is not what I need. I am quite happy to put a discussion forum within my website, for everyone, not just QES members, but I suspect it is complicated to set up.
I have never seen an add-on to CC HTML Editor, but I would like something from somewhere.
Wot - u - thinK? :cool:
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 12:52 PM
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Eric Rohloff
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Try Simple Machines forum. It's really simple to customize with all the free themes.

http://www.simplemachines.org/
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 02:19 PM
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Inger
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Yes, Tony, go for SMF, as Eric says. I know the Yahoo groups are horrible :o

We have asked CC if they want to make us a forum, but so far they have been busy with other things...
Ha en riktig god dag!
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 04:29 PM
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Tonethemoan
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Hi Inger, Eric,
A quick look at the SMF website scared the life out of me......a bit of learning to do.
But, my thanks to you
Tony ;)
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 05:58 PM
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Inger
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On this page you'll find the online manual which tells you how to get it installed and up'n running:
http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.ph … rt=subject
Ha en riktig god dag!
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 06:13 PM
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Jo Rice
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Hiya Tony,

If you need any help at all with the forum just hollar, I've set up a few of them with SMF and added the Portal even and a few mods. It's not as hard as it looks once you get your mind around how the Admin panel works.

Also if you have access to your cPanel for your server you should look there first before trying to install it manually. Many cPanel software setups include the SMF Forum as part of their package so it might be as easy as just installing it there.

Holler if you need any help :)
Jo

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Jan 18th, 2011 at 07:43 PM
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Eric Rohloff
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Tony, It's really easy. I just opened the PHP index theme file for the darking theme using CC HTML editor of course, and edited the home text to point to my website instead of back to the forum. Kinda fun.:P
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
Jan 19th, 2011 at 02:21 AM
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Tonethemoan
Registered User
156 posts

Well Guys, I'm still nervous, but raring to go with aall your usual friendly support. Can't to too much until Friday, 'got some medical students to teach, so Friday it is.....looking forward to it.
Thanks to all, Huh you know I'll be back!!!! :mad:
By the way Jo Ann - love the avatar.
tonethemoan
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Jan 19th, 2011 at 09:45 AM
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Rod A.
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You folks are giving me motivation to put one of these things on abcomputered, but been too lazy to get'der done...
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Jan 19th, 2011 at 09:49 AM
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Jo Rice
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YW Tony, let us know how it goes and if you need assistance, and thanks on the Avatar lol.

Go for it James, you can have a nice forum setup in less than an hour using SMF :)
Jo

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