Is there room?
I am developing a new PHP/MySQL based forum. I am hoping to make it extremely easy to customize, accessable for people with disabilities and expandable so that it can run not only forums, but whole sites.
I am hoping to release a commercial and freeware version.
Do you believe there is enough need for this?
I am not relying on it to provide a stable income and I am mainly creating it to see if I can, but I just wanted your opinions on this.
Suzanne posted this at 18:50 — 9th March 2004.
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I'd be interested in a standards-based forum software package. As for the need? I don't know.
I do know that a lot of software is horrific in its generated code.
spl1nter posted this at 23:12 — 10th March 2004.
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My site is currently XHTML Strict and CSS compliant. I am using CSS for the design so no
Well, I've used one, but it's for a perfectly acceptable part - the calander.
Other people have also expressed their feelings that they would really like to have a standards compliant BB.
Well, I'm off to code it
Chroder posted this at 23:27 — 10th March 2004.
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I'm doing the same, and mostly for the same reasons
I don't believe there is a need though, there are tons (163) of them out there.
spl1nter posted this at 19:44 — 22nd March 2004.
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I've been pretty busy working on the main design. Nearly done now
I've been having great fun seeing how I can change the look of the site using the CSS alone. I can create new sites in 10 mins. It's really fun
spl1nter posted this at 20:51 — 23rd March 2004.
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You can take a look at how it's shaping up here: http://home.graffiti.net/spl1nter:graffiti.net/
Don't expect the look to stay though
It's changed so many times in the past month.
Old Socks posted this at 22:55 — 25th March 2004.
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Thats a very clean and easy forum - i'd use it.
But as mentioned - you have a lot of competition.
spl1nter posted this at 18:43 — 26th March 2004.
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Thanks a lot
eniety posted this at 15:37 — 1st April 2004.
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It is clean, but you will definitely have a lot of competition -- especially free BBSs
acsinclair posted this at 20:50 — 2nd April 2004.
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I don't know...I don't think that I would want a forum to be "tableless" so to speak. Especially as the information lends itself to a table forum. On the other hand, your design looks very nice...and if the code is clean & standards compliant I might give it a shot.
Cheers,
Erica
spl1nter posted this at 16:35 — 3rd April 2004.
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Well, the design is tableless. But tables are meant to be used to organise information so obviously I'll use them for that. But there will be NO nested tables.
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