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Post by Allan on Jul 22, 2012 21:12:06 GMT -5
I love designing for proboards, probably since that's what I'm used to. But Xenforo is also very easy as well. Right now I'm working on a smf theme and I have to say I love the software but pain to design on it.
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Post by Cam on Jul 23, 2012 15:10:18 GMT -5
XenForo is no question the easiest in designing. I messed around with a demo once and I loved the admin panel or whatever they call it on XenForo. I have tried designing on phpBB, but I have never been able to get into it. It's too hard. I'm happy designing on ProBoards right now anyways.
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Post by Ajay on Jul 24, 2012 16:43:47 GMT -5
I was thinking about buying a xenforo license.
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Post by Allan on Jul 24, 2012 18:03:37 GMT -5
Xenforo is a great but I wasn't impressed by it, probably why I sold mine. It has some nice features but nothing worth $140.
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Post by Cam on Jul 28, 2012 11:48:08 GMT -5
Yeah, If I'm going to spend that much money, I'd use that money to buy a domain, hosting, and whatever is left, I'd buy advertisement spots and activity boosts for the forum. Might even be able to buy a custom theme from a designer that isn't well-known yet.
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Post by chukk on Sept 19, 2012 19:09:45 GMT -5
For me it's proboards and PhpBB skins, they are both easy to design.
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Post by Allan on Sept 19, 2012 19:27:40 GMT -5
I agree phpbb isn't hard at all. Once you figure out the css and images.
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Post by chukk on Sept 19, 2012 19:38:31 GMT -5
Css is the hard aspect of phpbb forums, but once you get the hang of that, the rest is a walk in the park.
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Post by Reverse Blade on Sept 19, 2012 22:03:12 GMT -5
I find Proboards to be kind of fun at times. It gives a lot of limitations and the challenge is to come up with ingenius ways around the limitations. MyBB is my choice when it comes to hosting my own forum/site.
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Post by Cam on Sept 20, 2012 21:05:36 GMT -5
Based on my experiences, I have enjoyed designing on MyBB a lot more than phpBB. phpBB is kind of annoying, but the possibilities are endless. MyBB is a bit easier and the results seem to usually be better. I don't know why, but designs always seem to look better on a MyBB forum compared to a phpBB forum. Maybe that's just me, but that's what I have noticed these past couple years.
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Post by dragonforum on Sept 29, 2012 21:19:23 GMT -5
Xenforo, to be honest, is almost nothing compared to phpbb (to me).
Phpbb has a very easy-to-control cPanel, and also, it seems like the SEO of phpbb forums work better than Xenforo ones.
That's only my opinion.
But I agree that designing on phpbb is a pain in the neck.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2012 21:27:10 GMT -5
Vanilla is very simple to design for. All the CSS classes are pre-defined for you, and they have mobile and embedded skeletons to work off of.
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Post by Cam on Oct 5, 2012 2:51:17 GMT -5
I have been on a few Vanilla forums, but I have never even tried designing Vanilla forums. If the CSS classes are already defined, CSS sounds a lot easier. I should probably try Vanilla out sometime soon.
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Post by edenwax on Oct 5, 2012 20:33:26 GMT -5
Ive played around with Vanilla a bit and its quite nice to style. Very nice and easy. However the forum system itself is a bit impractical and kind of annoying.
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Post by Deko on Oct 6, 2012 2:07:27 GMT -5
^Hah, remember when we had Kai on Vanilla for like a week? I think everybody hated it. XD
I don't mess around with other forum software too much outside of Proboards, but I like MyBB. Pretty straight-forward to design.
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