This will grow your understanding and familiarise you with the power and possibilities of vBulletin. vBulletin's Administration Control Panel is where you can control every aspect of your board. From users, forums and word filters to skins, templates and maintenance, everything can be done through the web-based control panel. The book devotes significant sections to covering these, getting you up to speed on the options available to you, and offering advice to help you make the right choices with your board administration. To make your forums stand out from the rest, we cover skins and templates to take your first steps in customising your forum. vBulletin is one of the most popular forum platforms available. Well known for its power and speed, it drives many of the most popular discussion forums on the Internet.
The book covers:
Install and configure vBulletin
Learn the your way around vBulletin with a thorough guided tour
Customise your forum to meet the unique requirements of your community
Administer users and posts, appoint staff to moderate your forum – or moderate it yourself
See how to upgrade your vBulletin installation, or upgrade other forum systems to vBulletin
Create a beautiful forum by designing templates or adjusting existing ones
Install hacks to change vBulletin's behaviour or add new features – you will even see how to create your own hacks