Invision Free Web Design

InvisionFree Web Layout:
Ok this is how to set up your own, InvisionFree website. This is basically the same thing as a hosted website, but you don't have to pay, and don't have as much control.

-To start off go to www.InvisionFree.com. Once here you should come to the InvisionFree homepage. In here you have to choose the option in the upper left hand corner labeled "Register". The board name is what will be in your link, for instance, my friend chose RSM for his board name, and it appeared like this: http://z4.invisionfree.com/RSM/index.php?act=idx. Fill in the rest of the information, and proceed.



-Once you have registered, click the board URL link. This will take you to your new website, at first it will look like crap, but when your done it will be nice. So log in so you can have access to the administrative board. Go to the section labeled Admin CP, this is where you will update and control your forum, it looks somewhat like this:

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-Now this is the system setting board, this configures the operation options on your website.


Chose the option general configuration. Fill in your forum preferences. Now proceed to security and privacy. In security and privacy, this is where you can change the secure level of your website. Turn allow duplicate emails when registering to no, this way, if you ban someone, there will be an insurance of them not coming back. If you want your forum to only be for registered members, you can turn the log in at homepage to yes, this way only members can view your forum. Click topics, posts and polls. This is where you can edit, the registered members posting options, such as; amount of posts per page, post flood on, and post flood time limit. Now go to user profiles, this is where you can edit user preferences. Proceed to warning set-up. This is where you can edit moderator abilities and administrative abilities.

-Go to forum control. This is where you will add forums, sub forums, and manage your forums.



New Category: This is where you will go to add a main category. Such as General Discussion, it will appear on the homepage of your forum website.
New Forum: This is where you will go to add a forum, inside of the category.
Manage Forums: You can edit your forum setup here, such as the order, or delete one of the forums you made accidentally.
Permission Masks: Are basically what they say, they block certain permissions from certain groups.
Reorder Forums: This is where you can change the order of your forums.
Moderators: This is where you can add a specific person, to moderate a specific section of your website.
Topic Multi-Moderation: This is to appoint a member to multi forums to moderate.

-Go to the next topic down labeled users and groups. This is where you control your members, and edit their responsibilities.



Pre-Register: This is where administrators can go and pre-register one of their friends who is going to join, or just to reserve certain user names, this way no one can have them.
Find/Edit/Suspend User: This is where you can edit user abilities. You can ban members here, by searching their name in the box then choosing the option which you want them to under go such as, a ban, a warning, or a promotion.
Delete User(s): Come here to simply delete someones user name off the memory of your website.
Ban Settings: Pretty much self explanatory, but this is where you come to edit ban settings.
User Title/Ranks: This is where you can choose what normal members get based on the post count. Also this is where you can add rank images to certain groups.
Manage User Groups: This is where you can add new promotions, or ranks, such as official mm, and off topic moderator. Then you can change their rank image, in the section before this.
Manage Validating: Is where you can look to see how many pending members you have, that you have sent verification emails out to.

-Administration and Skinning and styles, is where you can edit the view of your forum and edit certain word blocks and manage emotions.



Administration-
Mange Word Filters: This is where you can edit, what words your forum blocks out, so that you don't have members flamming each other like crazy, I personally like no word blocks on.
Manage Emotions: This is where you can change the images or emotions for your website.

Skinning and Styles-
Board Wrappers: I suggest you don't do this unless you know html coding, if you need help add me on msn.
Images: This is where you can edit ALL the images on your website such as new topic, closed topic, and add reply.
Manage Style Sheets: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) don't touch this, unless you know what your doing.

Now all thats left is to get some members. Have fun, and I hope you enjoyed this guide.

 

Nice tutorial, might come handy sometime.