A web design forum for everyone
Published on: October 1, 2006 by Paul Boag
I have been threatening to do it for ages, but finally it has happened: we have launched the boagworld forum. The place where no question is too stupid! ;)
My hope is that this can be a place where we encourage one another in good practice both when building and when running websites.
The problem has been that I don’t like a lot of the forums out there. Most of them are unnecessarily complex, have terrible underlying code (being largely table based) and aren’t very easy to customise.
However, relatively recently I came across Vanilla. For fear of being flamed this really is forum 2.0! It has pretty good code, can be customised beyond belief and can be as simple or complex as you want. It also makes nice subtle use of AJAX and yet degrades nicely ensuring it remains accessible. All in all I love it… oh yes and best of all it is open source!
Check out Vanilla for yourself
After saying all of that, I can’t say my implementation of it is that hot. So many of you have been badgering me about this that it has been somewhat rushed. Instead of putting together the CSS from scratch I have bastardised the code that was already there. The result is that it doesn’t scale as well as I would like (in fact it doesn’t scale at all in IE) and it could have really done with some more testing.
Disclaimers aside, I am generally pleased with it. Finally the listeners of the podcast have somewhere to talk about wider issues that don’t directly relate to my posts. My hope is that this can be a place where we encourage one another in good practice both when building and when running websites.
Although I suspect in the early days the forum will be largely dominated by designers and developers, my ultimate hope is that website owners will start to use it to discuss their unique problems too. It seems to me they are sadly lacking a good place to discuss their problems.
Oh yes and one more thing... no question is too stupid to ask. This forum is for everybody, beginners and advanced developers alike. Anybody criticising others questions will feel my wrath! ;)
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