Help please...im a a physical therapist

Help please,

I am a physical therapist and I would like to create a forum. I dont know how start and get an open source. I would also want to add some objects inside the forum. What forum software would you recommend. Thanks in advance

 

Are you looking for a free solution?

If yes, then phpbb would be a good choice.

IMO, vbulletin is the best forum software available, but it is not free.


What kind of "objects" you want to add?

 

I would like to ad some adsense

 

Adsense will work with most forum software including phpbb and vbulletin.

 

Chose SMF over phpbb but buy vbulletin if you can, it will be worth every penny of the $160

 

Thanks for your help. I really dont have a physical therapy business. Im tired of working as a therapist. I need some extra cash. Thats the reason why I'd like to start with adsense. Hope you can help me. I have only a small web design experience. What free forums can i use for adsense with 3 level topic outline?


Thank you so much

 

3 level topic outline. I really dont know the exact terms in a webmaster sense but it is like this:

Level 1: +
Level 2: -
Level 3 *

Example:
+Physical Therapy Techniques
-Joint Mobility
*Knees
*ankle
*wrist
-Stretching
*knees
*ankle
*wrist

+Physical Therapy Modalities
-Electrotherapy
*High Voltage Galvanic Stimulationn
*Interferential Therapy
*Low voltage TENS

 

That's forum, sub-forums and sub-sub-forums.

I think it is possible in both phpbb and SMF.

 

I wouldn’t recommend having too many sub forums for a start because it will make your forum look empty when you don’t have many posts. better to have 2 forums with 180 posts that 10 sub forums with 18 in each.

also you might want to remove the columns that show the amount of posts there are in each forum section until your forum gets really busy because no one wants to join a forum with only a handful of posts. Don’t show what your not proud of.. you should be able to find someone on DP who could edit the forum template files for you if you need.

the best place I found for forum admins is http://www.theadminzone.com/index.php

 

Is vBulletin easy to use? I mean. Is it drag and drop like blogger?

 

Not exactly, but then it doesn't require any programming knowledge and can be used by anyone.

It is really feature rich - both on the user side and administrator side.

This is forum also uses vbulletin.

If you can afford $160, I suggest you go for vbulletin.

 

will it has grown to do many things including blogs

if you just want to do a blog then go for wordpress bit I think its possible to intergrate workdress with some forum scripts but I;m not done it myself.

 

Is it like any software that can be found in torrent sites or I need to purchase it. Because in our country $160 is equivalent to 1 month salary in minimum wage.Hope you understand...and my salary is just a little bit higher than that

 

vBulletin is fine , but you might find it confusing for first time using it as there are some term will be new for you

 

is invision free also good for adsense?

 

i see. thanks for that info. so it is server based