Because I have problems with uploading the files to my server, setting up the homepage of german NIWA will take longer than expected, I'm so sorry - and a little bit annoyed

Quote from: Mariofan13 on March 03, 2014, 06:52:28 PM

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he niwa homepage doesn't use a CMS. It is a hand coded, custom website. It's slightly technical since it isn't one file per page you see, but it isn't a full blown CMS either. Also, There is a (eventual) plan to change the NIWA website forums to another software, but we are still waiting for that.

To which software? I hope no vBulletin

Pretty sure that's the current plan - last I heard, anyway.

Yes,  I also think that MyBB is the best free forum. But I recommend not to use a vBulletin. vBulletin 3 was pretty good but then the company Internet Brands took Jelsoft, the delveloper of vBulletin, over - and the following versions 4 and especially the current version 5 are not more than bugs There are lots of big communities who merged ther vBulletin-based forums to Xenforo, Burning Board or other software. You should look for other forum software like Burning Board 4, Xenforo or maybe IP-Board Or continue using SMF - but please remove the stupid captcha which I must solve if I want to reply to my topic
In my Forum, mario-forum.net, I don't use any captcha or antispam question - and it's completely free of spam postings and spam accounts since I created it, because I use a honeypot and Stopforumspam

Viel Glück mit der deutschen NIWA! Ich wünsche Ihnen viel Erfolg bei ihm.

Thank you very much

I will inform you, when our homepage is finished Because I'm not so fit in Javascript and php, I think a CMS will be better, but I don'T wnat to use wordpress, I'm preferring Contao Maybe a Burning board/WoltLab Community Framework is enough for the whole webpage, I must check it

Is there a thread where  users can tell what happened to them at wixia?

Dear NIWA staff,

I'm Mariofan13, an admin of german MarioWiki and webmsater of the german Mario Forum. The german NIWA is not really present in the german web and we only have threee members, arioWiki, NintendoWiki and Zeldapendium. But we, some admin colleagues and I, made plans for a better internet presence of german Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance and for getting more members. At first, we want to set up a webpage and a bulletin board for NIWA on my server. The domain I registered for the homepage is niwanetzwerk.net (translation of niwanetwork). I have some questions about the homepage and the board:

• Shall we use a similar design to your homepage or shall we create our own design?
• If your answer is  we shall use a similar design, there's another question: Which CMS and template do you use?
• Shall we use SimpleMachinesForum too? (I would prefer Burning Board or Xenforo, but XF is a little bit expensive )
   

We will put a link to niwanetwork.org on our page, that's sure It would be great if oyu can link to niwanetzwerk.net after our page is finished

Greetz,
Mariofan13

PS:Why transparent areas of my avatar become black? I tried to set my avatar by URL and by uploading and nothing change...?