Why should I use this Forum
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Printed Date: 09 April 2026 at 7:28am
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Why should I use this Forum
Posted By: hawkmanva
Subject: Why should I use this Forum
Date Posted: 25 July 2006 at 8:17pm
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I was using this forum on another website and liked the feel. I am in the process of building a new site and adding a forum. I had been looking at phpBB and actually downloaded it to try it out.
Can somone tell me, (because I haven't found a good comparison) why you chose this over phpBB or some of the others?
Does this allow you to add google ads down the left side?
Is there a "view my threads" option so people can easily see all of their threads?
Is it easy to apply different templates? I know on phpBB there are alot of templated uploaded that you can take and apply.
Is there a place on here that has a list of forums using this?
Thanks for the info.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 25 July 2006 at 8:53pm
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Wow what allot of questions. I'll awnser the main one as to why you choose this over PHPbb. phpBB is written in PHP which runs well on Unix/Linux servers, if you are using this type of web server then choose phpBB, if however, you are using a Windows web server then you should choose Web Wiz Forums as it is written in ASP which runs much better of Windows web servers. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: mack
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 12:08am
PHPBB is very insecure (of course more popular, but I've seen plenty hacked up)
Your own? Probably, with code modifications.
No (I don't think so), but this is very easy to MOD (as in make yourself).
Yes, however, there are not many good skins avaliable.. Maybe 1 or 2... =\
Yes, try http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Powered+by+WebWiz+Forums&btnG=Google+Search - here
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hawkmanva wrote:Posted By: Ozbboy
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 1:20am
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I have instances of both: (WWF, and phpBB), and i much prefer WWF. There aren't as many skins available, but the user experience is much Thanks to Borg's editor it's much easier for my users to make formated posts.  ------------- "http://www.ozbboy.com - www.ozbboy.com |
Posted By: cmeurer
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 1:50am
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Stable
Capable
Fast
Secure
Easy to setup and use
Contains most core features everyone wants
SQL server option
MySQL support
Logical
Configurable
Go look at the the support requests at PHPBB
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Posted By: hawkmanva
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 2:43pm
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Thanks for the feedback. How does this compare to vBullentin? I know vbullentin has a fee, but it is small change to pay for functionality.
In terms of system requirements - My hosting plan allows for 100GB of bandwidth, 1,000 MB of disk space, and 200 MB of either MySQL or MS SQL. How long do you think that would carry me? I know it all depends on how often you have posts etc, but just wanted some feedback on the set up.
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Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 4:40pm
Yup, the forum can be seemlessly intergrated into any website with ease using simple HTML
I belive this has been requested or is already available in the mod section.
I use both Webwiz and PHPBB and Webwiz has by far the easiest skinning system using only plain CSS. I do too like using PHPBB but i always end up back at webwiz and i always push my clients towards webwiz ------------- Handyman man? |
Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 5:13pm
i have to say ive used WWF since V6, in 2002 ( i believe ) cant remeber that far..lol] and i'd use this its the most secure, well written application i know, ive taken pointers etc from the code to make my coding better. also the security updates are very fast, m ost of the time within a day of finding them, depending on the hole, but with the way the forum is built it is very secure. with regards to size, etc i belive the installed version is from 5 - 6 meg of space, and bandwidth is fine, but of course depends on the hits. in V8.5 bthere is going to be an online skin selector. http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=20333&FID=18&PR=3 ive not seen PhpBB Support, but myself and the others are around daily, and offer support, WWF has a good support/knowlegable people that are happy to help. with regards to seeing it in action, why not try the LINK WARE/ FREE version to see how it woprks and runs, and if you want to donate to Borg , (which every one does as its so good). Borg is that dedicated that i have seen him working on christmas and other occations. i better stop now before its a full blown essay. Regards |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 6:53pm
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I use vbulletin on a couple of unix sites. As far as features go, it's similar to wwf but (IMHO) wwf was easier to admin. Vbulletin had the edge for performance prior to the latest release of wwf (version 8.x). I'd give wwf the edge now. ISTRC that Borg said this site took 60-70 mb of mssql space - 100+k posts, 10+k users. Biggest impact on the size of any db is how you set up your log files. There's a skin contest going on right now (ends July 31). At the conclusion, we'll see a new release of wwf with a skin changer included. The current version has only been out for about 3 months and many people are waiting to see how the official skin changer works before developing skins. There is a skin changer mod (3rd party) but no guarentee it will work with the offical skin changer due in the next release. Other than images though, skinning is css based so look and feel changes are pretty simple. The forum takes up relatively little bandwidth. Picures displayed in the forun will take up many times more. You can control the size of pics and files from the admin section. Personally, I prefer wwf over other forums for the following reasons:
Download the free MS access version and take it for a spin. Nothing better than hands-on. ------------- 
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Posted By: hawkmanva
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 7:40pm
| You guys have been great. I hope this Borg person doesn't get ill or something bad happen, or you all will be screwed.. I just may try it out.. Again I came to this site after being on a forum and looking at the source code to see who made it.. It was clean and easy to use. However I need to make money to host my site, so I want to be able to put the adsense ads in here and stuff. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 July 2006 at 8:16pm
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Web Wiz Forums has been here 5 years now, so I'm sure it won't disapear anytime soon. You can ad Google Ads to your forum by editing the header.asp and footer.asp files, but the number of clicks for ads in forums is very low, about 0.03%, so even if you have 50 active users all the time you would be lucky to make $50 a month from Google Ads. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Ali Bilgrami
Date Posted: 27 July 2006 at 4:21pm
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Just a note (also to self ------------- Lets! |
Posted By: ctscott
Date Posted: 28 July 2006 at 1:50pm
impressive. 3.9M hits. Borg maybe you ought to just charge $5.00 to download the software. you'll make it up on volume.  ------------- ______________________ http://www.cfbtrivia.com" rel="nofollow - College Football Trivia |
Posted By: balearicjobs
Date Posted: 28 July 2006 at 4:53pm
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I know, if half of those are fully working versions of this forum, that is an extremley impressive achievement, even having 1 million people running your software is great, if you take half of that 3.9 as a reasonable, you are pushing on for 2 million websites running Webwiz. Can I borrow your yaught for the weekend Borg?
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 28 July 2006 at 9:06pm
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Web Wiz Forums has only in total been downloaded 300,000 times, so I imagine the number of people running the software is probably much less. If you do a search on google for link:http://www.webwizforums.com you will get a more accurate amount of people running web wiz forums which is 33,500 ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 31 July 2006 at 10:24am
Even if something did happen (God forbid), you have the source code. You could continue supporting it yourself (or find someone to) if you had to. WWF does have a strong community, so mods and mutual support is available.
And its very easy to add AdSense.
And that doesn't count people who purchased a link removal key.  ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
Posted By: hawkmanva
Date Posted: 01 August 2006 at 9:21pm
| And one last comment.. really a feature request that I ran into on another site. Given the amount of fraud with identify theft, I wouldn't think you would want to give you day, month and year of your birthdate. While I know it is optional, perhaps leaving out the year would be better protection. I dont think you can save it without the year. You figure based on these forums, I know your name, your state, and now your DOB.. With that I can get your mother's maiden name and call your credit card company.. I work in fraud so I am speaking from experience. Just and idea for another release.. make the year optional. Thanks everyone. |
Posted By: Imperator
Date Posted: 02 August 2006 at 4:06am
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I've been using WWF for about 2 years now, and after the V8 release, I've been very happy with the program. Even though I am much more familiar with PHP and the rest of my site is in PHP, I've found WWF to be flexible and easy to modify. Since V8, it's been running very quickly and smoothly. Borg, I think you should've included the "Powered by Web Wiz Forum" phrase as an optional default feature even with the link removal. |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 02 August 2006 at 9:14pm
I agree ------------- Handyman man? |