[GUIDE] How To Create A Free Forum[GUIDE]

[mohd231]

hello.

My second guide - How To Create A Free Forum.

Contents-
What type of forum do you want?
Making Your Forum.
Advertising Your Forum.


What Type Of Forum Do You Want?

There are many types of forums; SMF, Phbb, IPB.
It all depends on what you want.
Ipb is more for forums that have 100-1000 members
SMF is for forums with 500-1k members
Phbb is usually for forums with 1k+ members

SMF gives you most options and is easy to use.
Phbb Also gives many options with modifications like shoutboxes and forum widgets
IPB is the most difficult to use, you need an understanding of html and CSS cheets.



Making Your Forum

Once you have decided which forum you want follow the steps below -

FOR SMF-
Go to www.smfforfree.com

Then go to "sign up for a free forum"

Once you have clicked that you will be redirected to a form.

Fill the form out.

There you go!

Your Free SMF forum Is all set -up!

FOR PHBB-
For a phbb forum go to either- www.freeforums.org OR www.forummotion.com

Press sign up for a new forum.

Fill out the corresponding form.

Once you fill out the form go to the email you used and activate your account.

Your Free Forum Is Ready!

FOR IPB-
For an IPB forum go to - www.ipbfree.com

Press " Get An IpBoard "

Fill out the form.

Your Free Forum is ready!



I understand this guide isnt that good, but i saw some people saying pay 75k for a site!
so i beleive it is my duty to stop these people from ripping themselves off..even if its only 75k.​

 

[Antman]

Do you get a .com?

 

[mohd231]

no, you do not get a .com

BUT

if you purchase credits through them (1500-2000 credits) you can purchase a domain (.com/info/net)

1500-200 credits costs around $12-$20

 

[Antman]

Oh ok, nice guide too.

 

[mohd231]

Thanks.

C'mon..i need constructive critisism =)

 

[Jeff 2 Nasty]

pretty good guide i might be making a forum for my clan soon

 

[mohd231]

No problems,

If you need any help..

pm me =)

 

[mohd231]

Any more...feedback?

 

[HeavenLord]

stop posting so many times in your thread? hows that for feedback. MOst of your guides are extremely self explanatory. I suggest you make your guides on things that people already know about.

 

[orlando_jordan]

Make your guides show walkthrough

 

[SuF]

ummmmm this is not a guide, it is bascialy a list of free forums...

 

[-kolodian-]

Free forums sucks. They alter it and put ads and shit on it. go to the site download the forum package upload it and do it yourself. I'm making guide for SMF forums now.

 

[Macroman]

Free forums sucks. They alter it and put ads and shit on it. go to the site download the forum package upload it and do it yourself. I'm making guide for SMF forums now.

It only sucks if you don't have good skins and buttons. Also if you don't ad Mods to it it can be bad.

 

[mohd231]

Free forums sucks. They alter it and put ads and shit on it. go to the site download the forum package upload it and do it yourself. I'm making guide for SMF forums now.

Forummotion doesnt have ads.

You can remove ads.

You can also transfer your forum to a domain -

forumname.co.nr

 

[Account Sales And Gold]

Freeforums.org are crap they were meant to be upgrading to phpbb3 last year but kept making excuses as to why they couldn't and they still have not upgraded now.

And the tech support sucks.

Not recommended.

 

[mohd231]

as i said..(i think)..

Forummotion is probably the best for phbb2-phbb3-punbb

 

[hibob1234]

sweet, i'll check it out

 

[Runescape Buyer]

Nice guide, would be good if you could reccomend a certain forum provider.

 

[Wilfred the Blue Mage]

Free forum does suck.

IPB is the best, its just like vBulletin.

 

[SwiftSeller]

Idk, I dont really like this guide, all it says is "if you want this go here, and if you want this then go there" Its not a guide, just definitions of forum types and where to find them.

4/10