iWeb FAQ - Add a Forum or Discussionboard
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How can I have a forum/discussionboard or messageboard with iWeb? Something like vBulletin...
There is no Forum, Message board or Discussion board in iWeb as you will notice...
For MobileMe publishers and non -MobileMe publishers
If you publish to MobileMe or don't want to upload a forum to your server or your server doesn't fit the requirements then you can open one for free on a free forumhost like the following ones:
Or any other you find searching on google
Then link it from your website or embedding them using an iFrame.
If you can I'd recommend you an additional host for the Forum (maybe you find something free and working good out there) and put the rest of the website on MobileMe.
For non-MobileMe publishers only (and not all of them)
What you would have to do is take a Forum like phpBB's ( http://www.phpbb.com/downloads/ ) which is great and I used for a long time.
Here's an example of phpBB's forum http://www.phpbb.com/community/ templates can be changed (you will find templates here: http://www.phpbbhacks.com)
An alternative could also be the following: http://www.simplemachines.org
Upload it to your server and then make a link from iWeb to your Forum. You could also embed it in an iWeb-Page through an iFrame...
Please check what the requirements are to do that and if your hosting fits them.
Note that you need a MySQL database to install the phpBB forum and php support ( MobileMe doesn't offer that feature, but a lot of other hostings do).
Installation of the phpBB Forum is really easy.
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