message board

[john goodstar]

Has anybody any advice on how i can add a 'message board' to my site.
Any suggestions as to where i could get some free (open source?) message board software which would work with actinic?
cheers
John

[jont]

Try http://www.phpbb.com/ which has a very good following

[jont]

.. and of course http://www.vbulletin.com/ which this site uses although not free is very cheap for the power it offers

[wjcampbe]

Yabb is also woth a look http://www.yabbforum.com/

[Duncan Rounding]

Invisionfree.com is another which you can link a subdomain DNS to so it appears as part of your site. You can insert it into an iFrame on a brochure page or suchlike. You can purchase no-ads on the board for a very reasonable amount.

[pinbrook]

Invisionfree.com is another which you can link a subdomain DNS to so it appears as part of your site. You can insert it into an iFrame on a brochure page or suchlike.

you can do this with any of the boards mentioned above.

The thing to check is all the security features, checks made on sign up, moderation features etc to ensure the board is fully secure and will not be hit by spam bots and malicious users.

Running a BB is not for the faint hearted

[john goodstar]

Hi,

The thing to check is all the security features, checks made on sign up, moderation features etc to ensure the board is fully secure and will not be hit by spam bots and malicious users.

Is it easy to do this with, say, vbulletin?

Cheers
John