Help with a forum.

"hey everyone, i am new to CodingForums.com so im sorry if i am posting this in the wrong area."
I am currently trying to make myself a forum, i am using dreamweaver mx, and i am familiar with most asp commands, i am using ASP vb script, and am having trouble with coding my forum, i havent started coding yet cause i dont know where to begin, i have been searching the internet for a while now trying to find a tutorial to help me, but i have had no luck.
i am after someone to point me in the right direction on where i should start, and how the code should be, should i link the posts to the threads by ID's , i have no idea at the moment. i also need help setting up a database, using MSaccess, wat tables do i need ect.
Please Help me. :confused:
Thanx

-Baleric.

http://baleric.cjb.net

i think jaywhy13 asked this a few weeks ago, someone did at least cos i answered, try searching for posts by me with the word forum in (or something like that, threads, posts, forum.. whatever they should all be in there somewhere it was a pretty big post.. i think the thread was called like "need help with forum" or something.. you could try searching threads started by jaywhy13 containing "forum"

Hi Baleric, welcome to coding forums. If you've not already searched like Ghell advised, check these threads for an answer to your question.

http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=468

http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=48743

thank you very much guys, this helps me understand alot more then wat i already knew... im going to start on it tomorrow :) please keep looking here because i will most defianetly get stuck sooner or later and need more guidence from u guys :thumbsup: ...
"also Ghell, i read that u have made alot of asp forums, i know im asking alot but can u please send me ur most basic forum, so i can try to learn from it ("i definatley wont copy, i just would like a reference") , im currently studying multimedia at tafe and will need do so this eventually, so im jsut trying to get a head start, also i have downloaded other forums but they are all protected some how and wont let me look at anything."

thanx alot, please help.
-Baleric

baleric@gmail.com

i think webwizguide has an open source asp forum but im not sure, it confused me all those years ago so i made my own

basically you just need a table of users, categories, forums, threads, posts

just remember the hierarchy for it is
categories > forums > threads > posts
and you should be fine

ie each thread MUST be in a forum, each forum MUST be in a category (you can omit categories if you want but i would advise against it as it makes it a lot easier to expand, just start with a single category and go from there :thumbsup: )

i wont post any forums as the more asp i write, the worse the old pages seem

if you look at my first forums its insane how i have written them, im suprised my server didnt hurt me cos i wrote them so badly


i would also advise that if you want to make it skinable you should write the html with pretty much only style classes (like <td class="..">..</td> and <span class="..">..</span>

then use a style.css to do all of these :)

thanx alot ghell, ill give this webwiz guide a look...

:) :) :) -Baleric

i just posted the message and relised how much u wrote and how much i wrote, sorry for not riting a big message. lol.