Yep, Edwin is right. PHPBB is very good. Most forums use either style sheets or are template based so there should not be any problem if you have some basic knowledge in how to edit those. Installation is also easy, just follow the instructions and if you get stuck on something, come here and ask us. Good luck!
thanks guys for the info. One other thing I want to put on my site that makes it a little complicated is to integrate photo albums into my site. Students are going to submit their homework as an album of pictures. I would like only students who have a password to be able to upload albums and also allow them to make comments on photographs in any other albums on my site. In terms of features, the website would look like a cross between photosig.com (includes a forum are and a photograph critique area) and fotki.com (allows users to group photographs into albums). I also would like to have a homework critique rating system similar to the way photosig.com lets people rate critiques created by other visitors to their site. Can I do this with an image gallery software program, and if so which one? or are we talking about major programming effort here? The photographs need to be grouped into albums, and not posted individually and I need complete control over the UI in order to be able to create a tabbed application similar to the navigation structure in photosig.com. Any ideas? thanks! Barry
One possible suggestion: It requires three seperate programs but they intregrate well: 1) PostNuke which is a Content Management System. 2) PhpBB ported to PostNuke for the Messaging System 3) Gallery Module for PostNuke, which will integrate the gallery features you want All three modules will use the same Username/password so users will only have to register or login once.
Thanks for the Nuke ideas I did a little research and found something about Coppermine Gallery 1.1.A, but the information I found said it was for phpnuke 6.5. There was also a voting module called ePhotoVote 2.5 that was compatible. From my limited understanding its seems phpNuke and postNuke are two different things, so is this the Gallery module you are referring to? or is it something different? regards Barry.
check the docs for the module. it very well may be compatible for either postnuke or phpnuke.
Most of the modules will work, but at times they need a bit of tweaking.