Setting up a forum

[Dr Who?]

Hi all,

 

I would like to set up a forum like this one for my home town.

 

I would like some advice on how I can go about doing this?

 

I would like a template and let others do the input as a message board and then sometimes have some other articles on the front page.

 

So could do with someone setting it up for me, and then I will just add stories and events to it as and when needed, but only something basic.

 

I should amagine it would have less users than on here as I only live in a small town!

[Guy]

http://www.ubbcentral.com/

[Essruu]

Hi all,

 

I would like to set up a forum like this one for my home town.

 

I would like some advice on how I can go about doing this?

 

Do you mean have a healthy member base and a thriving community; Then, one day, start charging people £5 to use it with the promise of some fantastic new website, competitions and features - but then actually give them very infrequent and 2mth out of date news stories, watch the site become a shell of what it once was and watch the members drift away?

[Dr Who?]

Do you mean have a healthy member base and a thriving community; Then, one day, start charging people £5 to use it with the promise of some fantastic new website, competitions and features - but then actually give them very infrequent and 2mth out of date news stories, watch the site become a shell of what it once was and watch the members drift away?

 

£10 I think for that kind of service. Anything less would just not work... for me!!

[Smirking_Saint]

Do you mean have a healthy member base and a thriving community; Then, one day, start charging people £5 to use it with the promise of some fantastic new website, competitions and features - but then actually give them very infrequent and 2mth out of date news stories, watch the site become a shell of what it once was and watch the members drift away?

 

Competitions ?? What like, the infraction lottery ??

[Dr Who?]

I love the way that on a forum, that has admin and the people that run the site, that no one can advise me on how to start a forum!!

[saint_stevo]

Google it

[Guy]

Or follow the link in the 2nd post that points to the provider of one of the web's leading forum applications, which has obvious links to forum hosting costs and a forum that will no doubt have all the information you'd need.