Help me build a forum!!!

blue-rinse · Post by **blue-rinse** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:03 am

Hey whats up. I'm gonna be teaching a music production/technology course at an arts highschool coming up in the fall. I want to build a forum so that students can post pictures, bio, mp3's etc, and comment on and have people comment on their original works. It seems that I can get it done with the ableton prototype forum which of course is the standard for many other companies and forums. Does this cost money to do this? What if I wanted to start one from scratch? Help me build a dope-ass forum!

Thanks for all the help!

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:14 am

have them post here with an OT prefix.

condra · Post by **condra** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:31 am

Its amazing the kind of information you can get from this thing called google.

http://www.google.com/search?client=ope ... 8&oe=utf-8

blue-rinse · Post by **blue-rinse** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:47 am

yeah well like i tried the google thing before posting.....went to a few sites......seemed to get lost even more.......can you provide a direct link to a known source?

mooncaine · Post by **mooncaine** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:50 am

http://www.phpbb.com/

blue-rinse · Post by **blue-rinse** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:12 am

great

tokyojoe69 · Post by **tokyojoe69** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:36 pm

phpbb is good, but can be a lot to maintain and administrate, especially if you're dealing with students and constantly need to moderate what is going on in the forum. You should also consider maybe creating a blog with user profiles and permissions so that your students can create their own posts, or just add replies to your posts. The one I use is wordpress, but there are plenty of other blog apps around. As my web lecturer told me, there is nothing worse than an unused forum. A blog might be on a smaller scale, but if it looks like there is more going on, people will be more encouraged to interact.