Godric Posted April 23, 2012 Posted April 23, 2012 So I am making a WoW based forum which will also have a WP site. It will be mainly used as a guild website. Any tips to the skins? I will be using the free forums. Also is there anyway to get a live chat on the WP site? Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted April 23, 2012 Administrators Posted April 23, 2012 Very cool, what's the URL would like to check this out. Which free forum software will you use? Quote
Godric Posted April 23, 2012 Author Posted April 23, 2012 Very cool, what's the URL would like to check this out. Which free forum software will you use? I haven't started yet lol. The GM is still waiting to buy hosting. Don't know what forum I will use. Why dont you guys give me some Ideas along with some possible themes. Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted April 23, 2012 Administrators Posted April 23, 2012 Well, I know you want free, but if you plan on building a successful forum, I would really try to get you to purchase IP.Board or vBulletin. For IP.Board themes that are reasonable: http://www.ipbforumskins.com/premade_ipb3.php Quote
Jessi Posted April 23, 2012 Posted April 23, 2012 Well if you're going to be using a free forum, you might as well use free hosting, too. We've had our guild site through http://www.guildlaunch.com for years now. Never had an issue with downtime. I've been in ones that use other sites, too. I think guildportal.com is still around and offering free forums. Quote
BlackHatClass Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 I guess go for custom solution.. Or edit a premium developer theme a lot, to make it look unique. Quote
SpikeTheLobster Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 Unless you go for free guild hosting (which works fine for every guild I've been in - and also looks nice if you take the time to tweak a little), have a shuffle through some of the user-designed themes for whatever forum software you choose. There's almost guaranteed to be both a Horde and Alliance theme in there somewhere, the game's that big. Then you just tweak it. Quote
Godric Posted April 24, 2012 Author Posted April 24, 2012 Fact is the server is private so normal guild hosting wont really work that well. That's the reason I am trying to get a custom one. I already have a decent WP skin. Now need some ideas on forum skins with chat functionality. Quote
Jessi Posted April 24, 2012 Posted April 24, 2012 Fact is the server is private so normal guild hosting wont really work that well. That's the reason I am trying to get a custom one. I already have a decent WP skin. Now need some ideas on forum skins with chat functionality. Sure it does. I had a guild site for a chat channel group of friends when we didn't even exist as a guild (everyone was in different guilds, but we all hung up together regularly and wanted an out of game site as well). Not all of the free hosts require you to link it to an actual guild in game and I don't even know if you have to list a server for some of them, but that could easily be lied about. -Not- that I encourage lying, lol, but the point is just that it doesn't matter if you actually exist as a guild from within a specific public server. Godric 1 Quote
DarkGizmo Posted April 26, 2012 Posted April 26, 2012 Depends on what software you're going with. There's plenty of WoW based skins on various platforms. Quote
Godric Posted April 26, 2012 Author Posted April 26, 2012 Depends on what software you're going with. There's plenty of WoW based skins on various platforms. Can you tell me some for the free platforms? Like SMF and PhpBB. Cant really buy a new license lol, as I am doing it for free. Quote
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