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Making my own forums/site?

Postby Droxor » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:56 pm

So I have never done this before (except on Guild Portal, which I do not want to use) And Im completely clueless.

What I want is to have a website with its own domain name (i.e. www.MerchantsGuild.com/org/net w/e) where I can settup forums as well.

1 - Where do I go for that
2 - How do I design it
3 - How much does something that that cost?
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My plan is to make a Pirate of the Burning Sea community dedicated to Merchants and Traders, however I have stumbled across the fact that on my server there is no website set up yet to co-ordinate Raids on Ports, so I have begun gathering numerous amounts of Community names to contact once I have a site that does that.

I am taking the opportunity of the 1 website everyone will use to co-ordinate raids, and will also use this to advertise the Merchants Guild I will be making.

These forums will also have a members section where my merchants can talk to each other, trade, get price rates and overall community.
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However I have no idea how to do any of this as far as the site goes and thought I would ask you guys for help :D
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Postby FloobieDoobie » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:00 pm

I use 1and1.com and they are pretty cheap, I pay 9$ a month for a couple gigs of through put, 2500 email addresses, 5 domains and up to 50 mySQL databases.

There are a ton of guild styled web sites out there just take a look at a fewe of them and see how much customization you can handle, examples are phpBB and SimpleMachinesForums
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Postby McGuyver » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:56 pm

If anyone knows a cheap place for web hosting and a decent web designer I could use a few good leads. I would like to start my own dog training/ Kennel and would need a nice website to help get things going. I'm also working on names for my new company as well. So any thoughts and or suggestions would be great.
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Postby FloobieDoobie » Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:26 pm

Bad Newz Kennels ?
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Postby Droxor » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:00 am

K so I got the domain from GoDaddy.com, great price.

I used IfroggyHosting.com for the actual pages, again good price for all I need.

www.MerchantsGuild.org should be up in a few days :D
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