I recently downloaded the program 'snitz forums' that lets you put a message board onto ur website. The thing is, you have to totally create it, and I do not know how to do this. Do you know anything about this program? and how to set it up?? Because when I open the download it opens winzip, and there are about a hundred different pages there and stuff..

IF you don't kno any of this, do you know a good messageboard program that is easy to use???

~DM

phpBB or VBulletin (this forum) are two good options. Many web hosts that run Linux servers already have one of these installed on their systems so you just have to define where you want the program installed in your directory and you should be ready to go.

Hope that helps,

Kaiman

Website Design and Hosting - Glenwood Springs, CO

Snitz is an excellent ASP forum. The code snippet section on my site (in sig) is running my own modded version to improve it's already good spider friendliness. And I have it running on a couple of sites I have setup for clients.

setting up is just a case of unzipping into a folder, editing config.asp to setup the database you are going to use and the table prefix if you are running several forums on the same DB, then or FTP all the files (minus the zip) upto your server. It will run from a subfolder so it can be mysite/forum/

config.asp 2 or 3 edits;
lines 46 - 48 to pick the db type (un-comment one)
lines 50 to 61 un-comment a line for the connection string (or write your own in) and set user and password
lines 63 to 65 edit the prefix if needed.

then navigate to mysite/forum/ and the install process will start
there is a create tables operation which may ask for a admin password if you are on MS SQL or MySql etc and a form to setup the forum administrator. when this finishes test the database and login as admin to do the rest of the setup.

but having just realised this is the PHP forum you could probably ignore all that and install phpBB