vBulletin - What's involved?

MDLarson

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I'm interested in setting up a forum for my church's website, and I visited vBulletin's website. In addition the great forum capability (announcements, questions, comments, etc.), I'd like some sort of calendar feature. Failing this, I know it's entirely possible to simply post messages with the dates attached as sort of a scheduler.

Anywho, I'm good at HTML, but total newbie at PHP. How hard is it and what is involved to get a site like say... MacOSX.com?
 
I've never installed vBulletin (I think it's $70 or something), but have used Invision Board: http://www.invisionboard.com

It is essentially the same, looks nicer from the start if you don't want to mess about with the graphics, is free, and the setup is as easy as it can be for PHP (very very good help/install files).
 
One of the things that you really need are the USERS. Nothing beats vBulletin when you have thousands of active users. Invision is nice, and i keep running also a Woltlab board.. both of those (and even phpBB) seems to be ok if your board isn't yet superactive.

As the best alternative, you manage to get enough active USERS that make the site just be active. vBulletin if you have lets say at least 1000 users, if less i believe some of those other structures will do as well..
 
Hmm, thanks. I'll check into Invision. But how does a forum package tie into a website? Can it simply be a standalone turnkey set of files, or do I have get down into the code? I suppose I'll just have to try, won't I? :)
 
unpack the forum files, upload them to a directory and then setup it, then play with graphics etc. after doing it more than once, uploading the entire forum structure, setting it up and changing some graphics will take you like 30 mins ... (and you can always play with graphics later) ;)
 
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