[3D-Orbit]

Hello all,

I am planning on building a website but not sure which forum software is best. Would like something very customizable (such as colors and adding banners on the top of the forum). Does anybody know if http://www.phpbb.com/ is any good or Vbulletin? I am a newbie, so not really sure which one is good. Willing to pay for it, so it doesn't have to be open source. Thanks for any feedback.

[toxic chicken]

if you're willing to pay for it, you should get either vbulletin or ipb. i like ipb the best.

[shougan]

PunBB is good, for you can easly make good css powered boards.
http://forums.punbb.org/

good example; http://forum.multipack.co.uk/

-Sid

[3D-Orbit]

Thanks, I will definitely look into those.

[Telos]

Is something wrong with phpBB? I'm surprised no one is recommending it, as it seems pretty popular.

[kd1966]

What is this forum (ProNetworks) built on?? I really don't know...... and I don't see any info on the pages here

[imnuts]

What is this forum (ProNetworks) built on?? I really don't know...... and I don't see any info on the pages here

phpbb is the base, although it has a lot of tweaking

[kd1966]

Ok........... so I see CG's joke then..........lol

[Telos]

It's dead, it's buggy, it's ugly, and it's dead

(it's slow and incompatible with any new features and has issues on PHP5 and IIS too!)

Interesting... on that note, what forums _are_ good for running on IIS?

[shougan]

Vanilla

Thats a really good one, easy to skin.

-Sid