Posts Tagged ‘PhpBB’

SEO comparison PhpBB and Wordpress

SEO comparison PhpBB and Wordpress

December 17th, 2009 - 12:13 am § in PhpBB, SEO, Wordpress

Its something very odd to compare PhpBB and Wordpress, since they both are different platform of open source blogging and community activities. But i am going to compare both of them. The comparison is going to be done on the basis of the of the SEO (search engine optimization). PhpBB SEO When we talk of SEO for PhpBB, we are calling up one of the toughest thing to be implemented in it. Why it is so difficult to be implemented? The reason is ...


Ad placement on index page of CA Vintage Style

Ad placement on index page of CA Vintage Style

December 14th, 2009 - 9:05 pm § in Ads Placement, PhpBB

Ad Placement on Index page of CA Vintage style is one of the most easiest modification compared to the placements on viewforum and viewtopic pages. This placement needs putting your ad code just before and after the specific line of code. Well we will be taking two zones over here also, zone 1 and zone 2. Look at the screenshot for the exact positions of the Ads zones. Ad Placement Before/ After Category on Index Page Both the zones could be explained ...


Ads Placement in Forum page for CA Vintage style

Ads Placement in Forum page for CA Vintage style

December 12th, 2009 - 4:16 pm § in Ads Placement, Customizations, PhpBB

This is a continuation post over the ads placement in CA Vintage style. In the last we have covered the Ads Placement in topics for CA Vintage style and this post focuses on the ad placement in the forum page. The ad is placement as a sky scrapper on the left hand side of the forum page, and on the top and bottom of a forum, check the attached screen shot for the exact location. We have specified two zones ...


Ads Placement in topics for CA Vintage style

Ads Placement in topics for CA Vintage style

December 11th, 2009 - 12:12 am § in Ads Placement, PhpBB

We have been asked by some of our users to provide ad placements in CA Vintage style ever since we implemented the style, few days back. Well with the styles provides by stsoftware.biz customization is something that could be achieved in an easy go. This post only focuses on the placement in viewtopic page, where the actual content lies in a forum. We have divided the ad placement in two zones on the viewtopic page. Check the screen shot for ...


Simplest mod to add videos in PhpBB3

Simplest mod to add videos in PhpBB3

December 7th, 2009 - 4:25 am § in Mods, PhpBB

I have worked for various entertainment forum clients and one of their very basic requirement is video’s for the site. There are lot of mod’s available over the Phpbb.com, but they are mainly available for YouTube and Google videos. If you like to add any other video site you can create custom BB Code for it. But creating custom for every video site is a very tedious job. Well we have a mod that is still in beta over PhpBB3 forum, ...


Setup a PhpBB forum from BlueHost account

Setup a PhpBB forum from BlueHost account

November 28th, 2009 - 11:45 pm § in Fresh, PhpBB

I am a user of BlueHost webhosting for almost a year now, and i am very much satisfied with their services. This time i decided to use their inbuilt software/services for implementing the Phpbb forum. Their were two software choices available for implementing the forum, one was the simple scripts and the other one Fantastico De Luxe. I preferred Simple Scripts for the implementation as their are lot of reasons for choosing them, we will discuss about that later. Installation of ...


Floating Twitter “Follow” Badge on PhpBB Forum

Floating Twitter “Follow” Badge on PhpBB Forum

November 26th, 2009 - 3:02 pm § in Customizations, PhpBB

Their are lot of blogs that have a floating Twitter Follow badge on the side of their pages. I was asked by one of my client to implement it’s PhpBB forum. For those who are familiar with PhpBB must be aware of the mod’s that are available for it, and complexity in their installation, as you are dealing directly with the codes modification. Moreover, i was unable to find a Mod for Twitter Badge. Then i decided to do it ...