My kid has been playing online strategy/war games and I've just started paying attention. This stuff is pretty sophisticated, and I'm impressed. I see a lot of opportunities for monetization, and I'm interested in starting or acquiring a forum. I'd like to get something my kid and I could work on together, where he could teach me about his playing experiences and I could teach him about running a businesses and interacting with customers. However, I don't have any previous insight into the industry. Can anyone help by pointing me in the right direction? Many thanks!
If you would like to start your own public forum. It would be best to acquire a domain name (ex. www.mygamingforum.com) to get started. This can be accomplished at GoDaddy.com. Next, you would need somewhere to host your site. There are numerous free hosts out there that you can use, just make sure they have eaither cPanel or VistaPanel installed and you can use your own domain name. One you have your domain and hosting site, go into your websites control panel. Look for an option that says 'Fantastico'. You can use this application to install a forum to your website. A popular forum script is phpBB3. The process will be simple from then on, you will also need a mySQL database. Once you have the backbone of your website created, you can then go to your website and start to create categorys for your forum, manage users, and more. Hope this helped!