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Site + Forums or just Forums?
07-03-2006, 07:11 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 19  | Site + Forums or just Forums? Currently Im running a few sites with forums as sort of an added on thing. I remember one site named icrontic.com, which is now gone, that used to be a news/reviews site that changed over to just using the forums to do everything. Has anyone here done both and which one worked better for you? Instead of having a site with a CMS system + Forums, with the way most forum software is today, it seems to make sense just to use the forum software to do everything. PS: Im thinking of taking my "FragWare" site and making it just a forum site, and doing news and reviews right in the forums, instead of having them sort of be behind the scenes.  | ||||
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07-03-2006, 07:57 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 652  | In all of my experiences, I have made a site and then a forum which is part of that site, but I'm not sure if it's really worth it. | ||||
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07-03-2006, 08:14 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 108 Location: California | I think having a site seperate from your forum is the way to go. I find that incoming links to non-forum pages pays the most from contextual ads.
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07-03-2006, 08:33 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 152 Location: New Delhi, India  
| Portal + Forum with the portal being driven from the Forum contents.  | ||||
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07-03-2006, 09:44 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 18 | Im going to just have forums for a while until i start to get a good member base going then i might make a site. But it might just be a waste of time =/ | ||||
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07-03-2006, 10:07 PM
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Title: Forum Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3,624 Location: Holmfirth, England 
| I would have a site that give a brief introduction to the forum, and a link to it, if i knew how.
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07-04-2006, 06:40 AM
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07-05-2006, 10:18 AM
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Title: Forum Addict
Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,629 Location: Australia  | If you are using IPB or phpBB - you could use something like the IPB SDK or phpBB Fetch All and make your own cms. A site I coded when I was bored had a blog feature that generated the 'blogs' from posts in a specified forum, and the comments where of course replies on that topic - when you get the hang of the IPB SDK it's really easy. | ||||
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