Building a website from scratch???

ted102

Hi guys,

Basically I want to build a website myself if possible. The website will be similar to the layout of boards in which users can log in and post in different forums. I've no experience in website building or computer programming but I'd love to take on the challenge myself .

-Is it possible to build a website like this from scratch with no knowledge or experience of -computer programming ?

-Is there software that can help me with this ?

-Any advice or thoughts on this?

Any help would be much appreciated

yawhat!

Have a look at Vbulletin or Phpbb which is free.

Easy enough to use and loads of tutorials on them.

Have a look at apache tomcat as well.

B.A._Baracus

boards.ie is Vbulletin.
Could you do it yourself? ..... kinda. If you have the time to learn. Sure with loads of youtube videos about pretty much everything these days you could do it.


But it won't be easy, ted.

professore

To build something like boards from scratch would take several years. As yawhat! said there though, plenty of open source forum software out there so you only need to learn how to set that up and customise it.

Apiarist

ted102 wrote: »

-Is it possible to build a website like this from scratch with no knowledge or experience of -computer programming ?

-Is there software that can help me with this ?

-Any advice or thoughts on this?

Yes, it is all possible, no "computer programming experience" is required. For example, you can buy the subscription to a ready-made forum from vBulletin: search for "vBulletin Cloud" in google. You pay them $20 a month and you get the site.

Then you have to run the site, that is learn all the buttons. Plus you need some moderators to look over the forum when you are sleeping (you are going to sleep, right?) -- you can probably enlist your friends in Australia and USA.

mach1982

Best thing is to use a Content management system , like Joomal or Wordpress, building a site like Borads from scratch , is actually very complicated. You need to know HTML, some php, SQL to to connect to a database. Some where to host it .

yawhat!

PHPBB is free anyway so start there I'd say!

PrzemoF

ted102 wrote: »

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-Is it possible to build a website like this from scratch with no knowledge or experience of -computer programming ?
-Is there software that can help me with this ?
-Any advice or thoughts on this?
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Yes, you can, but no you should not. Google for joomla, drupal, wordpress. You'll need to learn to modify what's already there, but it will get you to your goal much quicker. You'll need a server/hosting and a domain name to start with.

yoyo

If your looking for something similar to what boards are doing SMF forums and SimplePortal might suit. I've used Joomla's Kunena forum which is free and it's excellent, Joomla is also a fully featured Content Management System. May be overkill in this instance..

Nick