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[Kraiser X Astral]

If you want IPB go ipbfree.com, and if you want phpBB you can get it here you must be hosted so that you can install phpBB..
And also I got some cool skin sites for IPB, forums.ifskinzone.net and they also have some cool mods for your IPB forum

[Prophet.K]

I would suggest forums that you have to run through a php server and a mysql database. These forums are like simplemachines and phpbb and if you really want to get your site really professional and have so many features and have a really awesome them i would go with either IPB or vbulletin.

So for many choices i would go with simple machines first because they have a lot of moderations that people made and it isn't really that hard to get them and install them. All you do is go to the main homepage and they will have a toolbar and a navigation that says customize. There you can get moderations, installs, and themes.

The moderations as i've mentioned are really easy to install, so are the themes and for the forums itself. You might want to get a fantistico support which i think a lot of hosts have like trap17. So once you install all you have to do is make a database and show the information as your password and the name of your database. Then make a admin account and password. Then you go to your admin control panel and click packages. Go to download package. Their install the moderation that you want for your site and it would say something like list files or apply mods or something. Then after it would say install now. After you install it all you have to do is go back to your home page and that's that.

As for the themes all you have to do is go to the theme layouts part of your control panel and install the themes. Once you install it you have to go once back to theme layouts and click default everyone to the theme your installed and reset everyone to the theme that you put. Once their everyone tha tis viewing your forums would get back the home screen and see the awesome new theme. They got some vbulletin screens that look pretty cool.

The mods can do anything. They can make your simple machines forum meta tags look like the vbulletin. You can create a pm system, and you know when you click the forums you have to click the right name, like the actual name, well they have something called hover over and get into that where you just have to click the box of the forum and you get into it right away.

Thanks for listening and good luck finding a good forums and/or hosting. Once again for the hosting of simple machines you need to have a host to provide you with the php and mysql.

Mods can be found here > http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/

And the entire website can be found here > www.simplemachines.org

- Prophet.K

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