Creating a Message Board

[THESANTINI]

I am making a message board for the heck of it. I don't know if I should use vBulletin or NukePost to run it and if anyone has had any experiences thoughts on the differences between them. vBulletin is $85 for the year and PostNuke is free.
This is going to be an investing, busines, law forum that I am creating to establish a community to share and network information.
Also is it difficult to modifty the code so that I can create the forum to do what topics I need: I have not had any experiences in PHP yet.

thanks fellas.

[Scuttle]

vBulletin is a wonderful message board system (I've been using it for over a year now as an admin on various sites). I've never seen a PostNuke forum (I've seen post nuke with phpbb2 built in, but not a php nuke forum). phpBB2 IS a great board for free, but it (IMO) is nowhere near the standards of vBulletin. It's completely worth the money you spend on it.

Code modification is easy enough, in the admin control panel there's a special area for you to edit the code used in every template, as well as holding the original version in case you screw up. ;)

I don't quite understand what you mean by "I can create the forum to do what topics I need", but if what you mean is have it like Sharky has it, with various areas for different subjects (programming, CPU's etc), then yes you can and it's very easy to do. If not, elaborate and i'll try and help. If you've got any other questions, feel free to shoot them at me and i'll do my best to answer them. *really likes vBulletin...if you couldn't tell :p*

~Scuttle :)

[unclescrooge]

i've just started using phpbb2 and i think it runs fine.

but if you want to know how easy vbulletin is to setup/use...i'd suggest you take a look at the bottom of this page. this is a vbulletin board.

there are actually many out there that you can pick from.

have you checked www.resourceindex.com and www.hotscripts.com ???
they have tons of scripts you can use and tweak for just this purpose.

good luck!

[THESANTINI]

Originally posted by Scuttle
If you've got any other questions, feel free to shoot them at me and i'll do my best to answer them. *really likes vBulletin...if you couldn't tell :p*

~Scuttle :)

thanks- I'll keep that in mind as I begin working on my message board ! Thanks bro.

Unc - thanks for the input, I'll check those out.