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Q. I am thinking of using PhpBB as it will make it little bit tooooooooooo easy to maintain the whole site [Main Subject as Forum and subtopics as forum topics :)]. However my another options are FrontPage/Dreamweaver.
I am thinking more about using PhpBB as the site is going to be only for information and not much ads or hi-tech look. However you guys be the judge. If you were looking for information on specific subject, would a hi-tech look impress you, or you would still be ok with a basic [simple but good looking] discussion board type layout?
Thanks for the help.
I'm not 100% sure what your tailor needs here, but if you use phpBB, I'd advise staying away from Frontpage if you edit the code.
The editor can sometimes change the coding purely by opening up a php doc inside FP. Not good. The PHP documentation even mentions this.
Just wanted to mention it in case it interrupted your future cosy setup :)
am thinking more about using PhpBB as the site is going to be only for information and not much ads or hi-tech look.
I am thinking of using PhpBB for making a whole site. Or my next options are using FrontPage or Dreamweaver to make the whole site.
So in other words if I use PhpBB to make site, it will be a discussion board, but only admin can post.
And if I use FrontPage for making a site, then I will have to keep on updatings the link and all other stuff every now and then.
Or a question could be more simpler.
If you are looking for *information* on specific subject, what kind of site would you like/prefer more.
1) Which has discussion board and info in category/topics. [Info will be divided in categories and topics]
or
2) Regular web site.
ASP is really the code that FP is built around due to its tied in nature with all things microsoft.
If you create a few access db's that you will need for storage and paste them into a FP site, the program will create the necessary VB script and global.asa
The db results option or "database interface wizard" are good for if you want to hash something together as a programmer, or have to skip some of the process due to lack of knowledge.
You can strip down the FP code, using three includes created in the _fpclass folder FP generates.
You can then just play around with the SQL,security and design until you fully know what you need.
FP is good for whipping up these sort of things very quickly, and more of a case of you editing it "down" from a typical FP component to something you made yourself.
If you're not too familiar with ASP or you don't have much time I'd reccommend either phpBB or FP generated stuff.
Otherwise make it from scratch in Dreamweaver IMHO :)
I'd suggest going with something like PHPNuke - that's much more likely to be what you want. Either do a search for them or sticky me for a URL.
At this point I'm using phpBB2 for my forums, and flat files edited with FrontPage for the main website.
