Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Let's put an internet forum on our website
Adding an internet forum to your website is a great way to generate dynamic content. A forum or notice board as they are also called allows people to interact and develop a community. There are lots of open source forum solutions available.
The best online forum Bush Marketing built is on bayweb. My partner in bayweb, Jason Ferris, deployed it as part of a relaunch of bayweb.com.au in 2003. Our goal was to give our Byron Bay website a purpose. We wanted to have a community portal that competed and complemented byronbay.com. If you visit bayweb today you will see the little forum we started has a total of 1727 articles and 10349 registered users.
If you want a forum to be an asset be prepared to work your little ass off to make it happen. Forums need to be moderated, seeded with articles and most importantly maintained with the latest software versions. Hackers and spammers just love to join and muck up forums so do beware.
The best online forum Bush Marketing built is on bayweb. My partner in bayweb, Jason Ferris, deployed it as part of a relaunch of bayweb.com.au in 2003. Our goal was to give our Byron Bay website a purpose. We wanted to have a community portal that competed and complemented byronbay.com. If you visit bayweb today you will see the little forum we started has a total of 1727 articles and 10349 registered users.
If you want a forum to be an asset be prepared to work your little ass off to make it happen. Forums need to be moderated, seeded with articles and most importantly maintained with the latest software versions. Hackers and spammers just love to join and muck up forums so do beware.
posted by bbm
