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| Beginner's Tips On How to set up a forum | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 7 2015, 07:31 PM (41 Views) | |
| Blaze | May 7 2015, 07:31 PM Post #1 |
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Hello there and welcome to my guide for beginners on how to set up their first forum! I will try to make this as easy as possible to help you out with your new forum. Before diving into creating a forum, I assume you have a niche (or topic) picked out for your new forum. If not, it's best to decided what your forum is going to be based around, before you dive into figuring out what host you want to go with and what software. If you have a niche in mind and a name, it's time to decided where you want your forum to be hosted on and what forum software you prefer! For beginners I suggest you go with free forum hosting. If you want to host your own forum, check out the other guide located in this section to help you get started with that. For now, we'll just go over free hosts. I recommend using either Zetaboards (which is the service that hosts our forum btw), Proboards (their support team is amazing, the software is very easy to use), or Icyboards (which hosts both MyBB 1.8 and 1.6, you can also request a backup of your forum at anytime in case you want to move hosts.) In this guide, we'll go over Zetaboards since this is the service I picked for my forum and it's very easy to navigate the admin control panel. So you've picked your host, name, and niche. Now it's time to sign up for a brand new forum! What you'll need to do is visit Zetaboards.com. On the main page, locate the "sign up" link and click it. There it'll take you to a page where you can input the specific details of your forum. (Such as the board name, your username, password, etc.) Once you fill out the form completely, you'll have a forum instantly up and running! How cool is that? Okay so now you have a forum up and running online, now it's time to add some content! Let's start by adding a new category shall we? In order to add a new category, you need to be signed in to your board. Once you've signed in, you'll see a link to your admin CP up towards the right hand corner of your board. Click the link to go to your ACP. Once you've signed into your ACP, the software asks if you wish to have your board displayed in the directory. Select the category in which your forum follows, and follow each step then hit submit. This will help guests find your board in the directory. After doing this, it's finally time to add that new category I mentioned before! So you'll notice to the left of the screen, you have many different options. Scroll down until you see "Forum Sections". From there you want to click on "Create Sections". On the screen, it'll ask you to either create a Standard Forum, Redirection Forum, Special Data Feed, or Category. In this case click "Category." It'll take you to a screen where you can input the name of your new category, so feel free to name it whatever you want! After imputing the name for the category, go ahead and submit the new category by clicking on "create category". The new category will show up on the main index of your forum! However it'll be empty and we need to add some content to the new category. We'll go over that right now. Sign back into your ACP, and scroll down to "Create Sections". Click the link, and on the screen that pops up click "Standard Forum". A new screen will pop up and it'll first ask where you want the new forum to go. So select the category you just created, and input a name for the new forum. From there you can add a description for the forum, set specific details for the forum and add member group permissions. If you wish for all members to be able to post, feel free to scroll down to the permissions section and click on the "+" symbol to add the permissions to all member groups. After imputing the name, and permissions go ahead and click the "create forum" button. You should now see the new forum in your new category! Feel free to continue these two steps to add new forums to the board. It's best to also fill each forum with content, so new members can start engaging in conversations. This is the main part of setting up your first Zetaboards forum. Essentially it's the same for setting up any forum, though the control panel for each software varies and is different. It's always best to have plenty of content before working on the visual aspects of your forum, remember that tip. Hope this guide helps!
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