Forum Setup for Designers: Putting Vanilla to the Test : Comments
August 20, 2007
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Excellent article! I was an early adopter to Vanilla after running a phpBB board for years and haven’t looked back sense. Thanks for spreading the word about a great piece of software.
-David
http://www.mis-one.com
Erm… you use JavaScript for rollovers? Are you mad?
vanilla is great – it’s themes, extensions, add-ons, etc are horrible. i’ve never had any luck with any – they’re almost all buggy. everyone i’ve spoken too has felt similarly too.
That is the most over-complicated set of installation instructions i’ve ever read. erm… thanks.
Mitch – they may be over-complicated for you because you already know how to do many of the steps in the instructions. For some of us, though, this is exactly the amount of detail that we need.
Michael – aw, c’mon, she was merely indicating the limited amount of knowledge of JavaScript or PHP that many designers have, not giving us her opinion on the best way to do rollovers.
Paul – thanks for those comments…maybe the developers of Vanilla will pay attention and do some fixin’. One can always hope. :)
Bookmarked this page ;)
Digital Web remains most web design focused compared to other sites of this kind.
We’ve been using Vanilla for well over a year at YoungGoGetter.com and have no complaints. A great and unique application.
Vanilla is ok if you don’t want any fancy features or a good looking forum. The skins and mods available are poorly coded and supported. It has some nice concepts but falls short of the mark… mytopix is a much nicer looking forum and has all the basic features you’d want in a slimline forum without being too slimline like vanilla.
Thanks! Vanilla is exactly what I’m looking for. Their flash tutorials seemed to be down and I was about to give up on installing it until I came across your site. The only thing the article missed was changing the mySQL database permissions as well.
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