robertall

The lazy mans way to making a website

For along time people have made websites using HTML and WYSIWYG editors, but i ask why do you even bother, there are pre-made scripts that can do it for you.

One of the hardest things you can do is make a forum, and i ask why do you bother, there are loads of forum software that you can use, some paid and some are free. The best and most popular open source forum is phpBB, and almost all free forums are made using it, it takes no effort whatsoever making themes and just getting free themes from someone else.

Forums are not what you are looking for, but you still want to make a quility website? I would recommend using a CMS (content management system). My site uses a CMS because of the simple fact that i am crap at coding, and the fact that my websites always fail in the end, that is until i downloaded and used a content management system. There are many of these to use, i personally use e107, i have tryed php-nuke before, and i did not like it, you still have to code the pages, but using bb Code instead of HTML, and you code it, and the links appear automatically, and all content works. The main reason i use e107 is because of the fact it is easy to customize and it does not need a copyright at the bottom of the page. I can also disable annoying features that "clog" the website.

If you ever need to make a website, just use e107.

Here is some information i quickly put together to help the e107 user and general problems you may encouter. I would recommend running an intergry check every few days, as it has a habit of losing information and pages. When this happens, just go to e107.org and download e107, your current version and replace/add the content that is missing. If you get anything with HTMLarea in it, just ignore that, as there is no problem with that content, and it is not important.

To install a theme, just upload the content in the "e107_themes" folder, and then in the admin control panel for e107, go to preferences, and go to theme/styles, and then just use that as a default theme, the users can still change the theme if they wish.

To run e107 you will need 1mySQL database and php installed, then you are ready to enjoy an easy to manage, and good lucking website.

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The seems a bit disturbing Otherwise it looks like a good addition to something like Fantastico. I see that cPanel now include it in their Addon script library. Yet another thing to add to the "I must look at this" pile.

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robertall

The only information it loses is the php scripts for keeping the pages in control, it does not lose the content, because that is in the mySQL database. I do not at the moment know the size of my database, but the banner ad thing is odd as well, when i enter a very long URL it does not seem to work.

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