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community script?

mountain blues

2007-04-25, 6:18 pm

I'm putting together a small community website - for a few friends and
family.

Anyone able to recommend a good free (or very cheap) community type script?
(php based)

Thanks.

Jerry Stuckle

2007-04-25, 6:18 pm

mountain blues wrote:
> I'm putting together a small community website - for a few friends and
> family.
>
> Anyone able to recommend a good free (or very cheap) community type script?
> (php based)
>
> Thanks.
>

What is a "community type script"?

First you need to further define just what you want on your site. Only
then should you start to think about how to do it.

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mountain blues

2007-04-25, 6:18 pm

Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in
news:LIOdnXDJPZ-LJrLbnZ2dnUVZ_sLinZ2d@comcast.com:

> mountain blues wrote:
>
> What is a "community type script"?
>
> First you need to further define just what you want on your site.
> Only then should you start to think about how to do it.

feckin ell, I'm hardly designing a rocket to go to the moon here.

Jerry Stuckle

2007-04-25, 6:18 pm

mountain blues wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in
> news:LIOdnXDJPZ-LJrLbnZ2dnUVZ_sLinZ2d@comcast.com:
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> feckin ell, I'm hardly designing a rocket to go to the moon here.
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No, but you haven't even decided what you want on your site yet, either.

I'm not saying you have to plan the pages, code the site and everything
else. But you need to have some idea what you want on it.

Do you want memberships? A forum? A calendar? Places of interest?
Homes for sale? Recipes?

Figure out what you want. Then go looking for it!

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Mark Goodge

2007-04-26, 3:24 am

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:37:35 GMT, mountain blues put finger to
keyboard and typed:

>Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in
>news:LIOdnXDJPZ-LJrLbnZ2dnUVZ_sLinZ2d@comcast.com:
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>feckin ell, I'm hardly designing a rocket to go to the moon here.

No, but you do at least need to explain what you do want. What do you
mean by a "community type script"? That's not a phrase I've
encountered before.

Maybe you could give some examples of other websites that do similar
things to what you're doing - that way, we can give some advice on how
to achieve the same thing.

Mark
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Steve Pugh

2007-04-26, 6:16 am

On Apr 25, 10:37 pm, mountain blues <fghgggh...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote innews:LIOdnXDJPZ-LJrLbnZ2dnUVZ_sLinZ2d@comcast.com:
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> feckin ell, I'm hardly designing a rocket to go to the moon here.

Exactly.
"rocket to go to the moon" is a clear defined goal.
"community type script" is very vague.

Do you want... A forum? A mailing list? Somewhere people can upload
files (of what types)? Blogs? Chat?

Communities come in many different forms. There's no such thing as a
generic community script.

Steve

paul@paulwatt.info

2007-04-26, 6:19 pm

On 25 Apr, 16:36, mountain blues <fgffhh...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm putting together a small community website - for a few friends and
> family.
>
> Anyone able to recommend a good free (or very cheap) community type script?
> (php based)
>
> Thanks.

without knowing exactly what you need, you could try something like
Joomla. comes with a lot of modules and is easy to install.

Paul

http://www.paulwattdesigns.com