Looking for a small forums/message board solution.

Im looking for a small yet capable solution for my hosting website. Im building it into a community and i want the forums to fit on the main page so i need a forums solution that can fit in a 280 px width table. I dont want a stand alone forums because i want the rest of the site to be accessed from the forums. any suggestions is appreciated. the site is hostiz.com

 

might want to try phpBB with some custom programing to place posts on the first page. good luck

 

You may not need to do a LOT of custom programming. Check out the "Narnia" link in my signature. On the main page, on the left side, is the full list of the forums. I can make that box even smaller easily. Of course, using the links in the box takes you to the full forum page, but I can also style the forum page to have any look that I want. So if I wanted to keep my sidebars and just have the forum appear in a small box in the middle of the page, that would be possible.

To do this, you need phpBB as the main forum, and phpbb_fetch_all as the mod that allows you to embed bits of the forum into your own homepage. Once you have phpbb_fetch_all installed, take a look at their "portal" page demo (which will be in the directory that you installed it into), and just start removing the bits you don't need or want.

-Tony

 

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