In other words if that is what is important to you, total and complete
customisation, the only solution is to perhaps use some other program as a
template, but in essence you have to build your own.
Which was sort of my point.
The commercially available message boards are meant to appeal to particular
needs.
Full, complete and total customisation in ADDITION to an easy upgrade path,
isn't possible.
Once you start to mess with the source code it stops being Fusetalk or
Ultimate Bulletin Board and it becomes YOUR messageboard.
That said, I still think that Fusetalk is the best message board system I
have seen for Coldfusion, or any other application server/scripting
language, whether you want to use it 'out the box', or as a base to build
your own.
*humph*
*folds arms and nods firmly*
....
....
;-)
hee hee hee
-Gel
www.carigamer.com
Island Gaming At Its Best!(tm),
-----Original Message-----
From: cassady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Customization is the most important part – look and function.
(1) I use a forum system for Spank! Youth Culture Online, and there is no
way that most available forums systems out there can be customized to meet
the target demographic: 14 to 24. Look, feel, texture, graphics, flow,
readability (or lack there of!) is all-important. I have some background in
layout and typography – and flow for a site has to work.
(2) Customization of code: I needed to tie in the users to a whole bunch of
tracking and publishing stats and permission. Also, we’re working on
incorporating Short Messaging into the forums, assignable graphics, et. All.
While you’re not specifying functionality – any changes or additions will
have an influence on the layout and GUI. So again – if you begin to deviate
from the package, than you need to be able to rip the interface apart.
(3)While I am totally biased (I built Spank!s forums from the ground up, and
am rewriting them again) – there really is nothing better than total
customization of the GUI, which usually means ripping most of the any
packaged system code apart.
Stephen R. Cassady
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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