How to make a successfull forum!

Digintary Posts : 2646 Registration date : 2008-04-12

Ever wanted to know how to make a good forum?
Ever wanted to master the Admin' panel?
Well here is your chance!
Follow this guide and I'm sure you will have a great forum straight away!

Getting started
Well first off you need a good forum maker..
Where to find one.....
Aha!!
Forumotion does the job!
Since I'm not aloud to advertise you'll have to search it .

Now,You need to create your forum ..
All you need to do is fill out the forms - make sure you have an email adress as your going to be needing it!

Now you have your forum ready your probally wondering why your name is Admin and what it stands for..
Well,Admin is short for Administrator .
It means that you are in complete control of everything!

Now,you may be thinking that this is impossible to understand and you shouldn't of made the forum in the first place ..
But don't worry,It's so easy to understand once you get used to it .
Right,Now if you scroll down you will (Hopefully) See a linked text called ' Administration Panel ' .
Click on that,As soon as you click on it to the left there is a thing with ' Simple ' and 'Advanced ' It will be on Simple but I suggest you use Advanced because it has more stuff .

Now if you want to add categorys click on general then to the left there will be something called ' forum ' then below that there is 'Categorys and forums' - Click on that,There you can add categorys and forums.
Then there is the name of your forum,To the right there is a + sign.
Click on that and there will be a screen - There will be :
'Choose the kind of forum you want' there will be a drop down menu next to it.
There you can change it to a forum or a category.
A category is the bit where the forum goes in.
E.G Teh hang out > (Category name) Main forums > (Forum Name) Forum General and Help.
Below will be 'Forum Name' what you want to call the Forum (Not the website you just created!!) .
Then there will be 'Attached to ' .
And other things.You can also add descriptions to diffrent Forums and Categorys ! Along with that you can have a Image for it!

There is a little information you need to know aswell.
The Category will only show if you have a forum inside it.
Now,You might want to know a little more about 'Forums' .
Well,You can have sub - forums aswell .
And you might be wondering ' I know that but how do I add them ?? ' .
Well Jess is here to help . You can add Sub - forums by going into 'Categories and forums' (Blue speech bubbles indicate Categories and green indicate Forums) .
Now,again click on the + sign and where the drop down menu is change that to 'forum' .
And fill out the rest etc..
And there you go!
You have your first Sub - forum!
But there may be something wrong....
To make it a propper Sub - forum you might need to go into Display>Homepage>Structure and Hierarchy .
Then Where it says ' Keep categories in one Index ' Choose Middle .
And there you go! Your sub - forum is done!

More coming soon ~

Super-Human Posts : 3179 Registration date : 2008-01-26

This is just a guide to Forumotion, there are barely any succesful Forumotion forums.

And, you haven't given any tips to make it 'succesful'. This should be called "How to start Your own Forumotion forums"

:)

Mercenary Posts : 708 Registration date : 2008-08-08

Ok, firstly giving the link to Forumotion isn't advertizing.

Secondly, Forumotion are a terrible host.

Thirdly, KillerKatoon, Club Penguin Planet is run by Forumotion, if you count that as successful.

Super-Human Posts : 3179 Registration date : 2008-01-26

Note that I used the words "barely any". That means that there are a few.

Super-Human Posts : 3042 Registration date : 2008-04-30

whoghost read carefully next time :P

Digintary Posts : 2646 Registration date : 2008-04-12

KillerKatoon wrote:: This is just a guide to Forumotion, there are barely any succesful Forumotion forums.

And, you haven't given any tips to make it 'succesful'. This should be called "How to start Your own Forumotion forums"

:)

Yes but I havent finished it yet....

Paragon Posts : 7260 Registration date : 2008-01-27

Do you even have a successful forum?

Digintary Posts : 2646 Registration date : 2008-04-12

No... But what does that have to do with anything??

Adventurer Posts : 410 Registration date : 2008-01-27

anyway, forumotion is rubbbish
Invision free ftw

forumotion is good for begginners thogh

**Hero of Time** Posts : 13850 Registration date : 2008-01-26

This forum is for Club Penguin Planet Help and Suggestions. ;) Moved to Chit-Chat.
~Screamkitten

Vanguard Posts : 4169 Registration date : 2008-06-06

you spelled successful wrong you put 2 l's

Adept Posts : 1823 Registration date : 2008-02-28

um, this is forumotion, so you can advertise it here. forumotion is just like wordpress, you make it the easy way, but it's harder to get the word out. you have to advertise both like crazy even if you get in trouble for it.

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