Creating a Forum

[cecco]

I've taken upon myself the task to create a website and forum for my coworkers who recently petitioned to vote in a union. In order to make the process of of the collective bargaining agreement as transparent as possible and what is to come later I decided on a forum for all to register, log in and use to share their ideas or concerns.

My experience with html dates back to just an introductory course in college 11 years ago.

I have registered a domain name with godaddy.com for my website that I created through wix.com so that side is all taken care of.

The forum part I'm still trying to sort out. I'm not familiar with the several kinds out there and how to use them. I had started with Mad Moose Hosting for $3.99/month using phpBB3 and all was going well until I needed to ask some questions. My emails have gone unanswered for over 2 weeks and I feel I will need some sort of support if I'm going to do this.

If anyone is willing to share how to best go about creating a forum I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

[robphelan]

i did this some years ago for a warranty company that went bankrupt.

I think I just used MS Publisher - i believe it came with a simple forum option that let users register and discuss.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Get a sql database and a webserver and write it yourself imo : )

 

[cecco]

I wish it were that easy. I noticed that phpBB can we downloaded for free, not sure where to go from there though. Also it looks like wix has ties with another forum provider called Nabble. I'll look into that as well.

 

[Gillbot]

Get a host that can host a SQL database for you, install phpBB, setup and be done.

 

[homercles337]

You could do this in a short amount of time using Apache/PHP/MySQL. I did this about 10 years ago...so maybe things have changed.