New forum's content!

[MyDigia]

Originally Posted by Badrawy

hi all

i want to show members names,avater,location,..etc Vertically not Horizontally

hope u understand what i mean

Hi,
I hope I got you right:
Go to your Admin CP:
1. On the left side menu bar, click on vBulletin Options, and then vBulletin Options
2. Select Style & Language Settings from your left side menu
3. Find the option Use Legacy (Vertical) Postbit Template and make sure it is YES
(For furthur modification you can edit postbit_legacy template)
hope it helped!

[Badrawy]

Originally Posted by MyDigia

Hi,
I hope I got you right:
Go to your Admin CP:
1. On the left side menu bar, click on vBulletin Options, and then vBulletin Options
2. Select Style & Language Settings from your left side menu
3. Find the option Use Legacy (Vertical) Postbit Template and make sure it is YES
(For furthur modification you can edit postbit_legacy template)
hope it helped!

Yes yes yes

thanx alot man

forums help

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thanx all

[smoke]

Nice reply,thx mydigia !

[laura66b]

Originally Posted by kevnj

I dont think a way to start a new forum is by paid posts.

I think the best way would be copied articles, but giving credit to the orginal source of course.

My traffic comes by directly talking to the people, so for me theres no need to advertise the site. The content on the site is of the actual users themselves, pictures that is. So they come to the site to the pictures. I make a requirement of 2 posts to see the gallery, which is ran by vbgallery, can be found at photopost.com

The 2 post requirement is the "fee" they have to "pay" to gain access to his area. Which helps the forum grow and gives new memeber something to comment on. I get rid of the spam posts, by making new uses not able to post new threads.

My site doesnt have the "how to get traffic" problems others would but Im going to follow this thread closely as Ive been wanting to start a new site that isnt so specific as my site is now.

I agree that paid posts are not the way to go. My members are the ones who create the content. You just have to have forums that meet the needs of your members.

Laura

[jw00dy]

When I first started my forums, I recruited members from other sites, and made them moderators with the idea that it was part of their jobs to create content since we really didn't have any.

This was a really slow process, and I'm sure their are other methods, but that's what we did, and like I said, it's been a long road, but we love where we are now, and wouldn't change a thing.

I also think that you shouldn't create a forum (new topic of discussion) until you have some content to add to it. Empty forums are IMOP, a big turn off. If you create one and it never really gets used, get ride of it, and move it's content to somewhere else.

[shon]

i want to show members names,avater,location,..etc Vertically not Horizontally me to

[Pompidou]

Forums need to start small. I didn't make my forums until I had a small following of likeminded individuals who wanted such a forum. Paid posters? Never. Infact, I turned down offers to help me pay for the forums. When you have such a group of people, make a small forum. It's better to have 3-4 active forums than 20 forums of 0-1 threads. I think the biggest problems new forum creators have is being too ambitious. They think if they make 20 forums their small userbase will post in all of them equally. Unfortunately, people tend to clump into a small cluster of really popular forums (general chat and the main forum topic area usually) and ignore the dozens of specialty forums. My first inclination on making my forums was to make tons and tons of topic areas, but fortunately, I had a friend with more foresight than me, who recommended just having 3-4 and adding forums only if demand arises.

What's that have to do with the topic? If your forums look busy, people will post. One catch 22 that almost killed my forums was that when noone is posting, noone wants to post. Noone wants to be the last one posting when noone else is around. By keeping all my threads clustered in a couple of forums, it put bigger numbers in the right hand columns everyone sees. That, and when people go to post in one thread, odds are they'll catch a few more topics in passing and post there too. This works for grocery stores - arranging merchandise to entice spur of the moment purchases. If you keep all your topics separated and out of sight from each other, people will tend to go in, post what they want, and then leave. Forcing people to do some modest browsing will encourage them to post in topics they wouldn't have otherwise seen.