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Post by Thomasss on Nov 4, 2015 23:56:16 GMT -5
Do you had a fancy website with your forum? Maybe it contains bios of staff, a blog, community guidelines, etc. Or do you just have a forum?
For the company I started with a friend recently, we have a website and forum, but I think that puts us in a different ballpark, we wouldn't be a traditional forum. xD
So what do you guys do? And if you add a website, do you use a software like Wordpress?
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Post by ⸗April⸗ on Nov 5, 2015 0:25:49 GMT -5
Just a forum.  If I wanted to do extra website-y stuff, I'd just create a custom page for that. |
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Post by Teg on Nov 6, 2015 12:53:44 GMT -5
Usually, I create just a forum and then add custom pages for the extra stuff. ProBoards makes that super easy.
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My dear sweet Millie, may she play peacefully over on Rainbow Bridge
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Post by Azayles on Nov 6, 2015 13:10:07 GMT -5
In my down-time, I'm working on a portfolio site to showcase my graphics design and coding work. It's a custom page on a forum, with the forum really being secondary to the site, but I'll eventually use it to chat to clients about ideas for things they want me to build them |
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Post by flash on Nov 11, 2015 23:32:53 GMT -5
I don't see why forums have to have websites. A forum is for people to come together and discuss about stuff. If I wanted to just read then I would go to an actual website but when I go to forums, I want to post messages and join in on the discussion. I think having a website for a forum is too much.
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Post by synthtec on Nov 11, 2015 23:40:27 GMT -5
A website and a forum(blog) under different urls provide great back links for the search engine. Why have both? Simple! internet marketing strategies.
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Post by flash on Nov 11, 2015 23:49:45 GMT -5
A website and a forum(blog) under different urls provide great back links for the search engine. Why have both? Simple! internet marketing strategies. In that case then this makes sense and it would be better to have both the website/forum. I have seen many forums in the past try and have websites as well as the forum but then after awhile they realized how hard it was to keep up with both the website and forum and then they eventually gave up on the forum. |
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Post by jane on Nov 12, 2015 0:47:58 GMT -5
In my opinion website with forum become to heavy to be loaded fast, and this creates some trouble in its optimization.
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If I wanted to do extra website-y stuff, I'd just create a custom page for that.
