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Creating a website
- Thread starter Jazzy
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What type of website is your friend trying to create? That would help condense the list a bit and improve the quality of the suggestions
Well, for freebies we could suggest sites like proboards, forummotion.com. I tend to just use whoever I find, but so far knownhost has proven to be fairly good, as has this site called a2hosting.
Thank you so very much for your suggestions. I will pass them along to my friend.
If they have funds for hosting, I would also suggest having a look at using either myBB or phpBB. It would give your friend a lot more freedom in creating their forum. It's not too difficult to set up and hosting isn't very expensive nowadays
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There are lots of free and premium options. The most popular premium option is XenForo - of which this forum is based. However, though, that's not saying free stuff or other premium is crap - by a long shot.
I know someone here mentioned proboards, but please look into the Jcink service before ever considering proboards.
Thank you and I'll suggest to her that she compares the two before making a final decision.
If she wants to create an arts and crafts forum I would go with a software called MyBB, it’s free and extremely powerful and simple to use for beginners.
Although she would have to pay for a domain and hosting which really isn’t that expensive but if she wanted she could use a free hosting site.
Although she would have to pay for a domain and hosting which really isn’t that expensive but if she wanted she could use a free hosting site.
You can still use it for free in a free hosting but it will have a funny url like artscraftsforum.freehostingnowforfree.com
but you can still use some free domains to make your url direction cooler!
I use Proboards & while I like it 'cos I'm familiar with it, it has gone downhill. I'm curious why you don't like it.
I recommend Forumotion, if you want to go with the free route. I liked Zetaboard before they merged with Tapatalk and now I avoid them completely. I would probably take Proboards as my second favorite when it comes to free.
