Noob questions - coder cost, vB.org, and other questions

[fattony69]

Originally Posted by Abomination

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• If my project/forum is a 'go' it will be using vBulletin
• Trying to figure out the major parts of putting up a forum - site hosting, vBullletin basics before buying to be sure desired goals are feasible. Based on reading this section of vBulletin.org my goals are quite simple.
• I really don't want to set things up myself. I know the cost of the license is, phone support, and for vBulletin.com to install it but there seems to be some missing parts such as backup, restore, adding approved modifications, stuff like that.

The forum might make a few $ but not much so I don't have bucket loads of $ to put into this project (it at least needs to pay for itself).

1 - How can I get a clue if this project is feasible?
If the project is cost prohibitive then it would be good to know that now before I buy vBulletin in the first place.

Somewhere "Paid Requests section" was referenced in a thread. In the help section of this site it lists a "Premium Modifications" section, are they the same?

2 - Are there threads there that would be visible if I purchased a license? Right now there are no threads in there from my computer.

I'm really really stuck. I know talented people should be paid well, but some of this stuff might take a pro 1-2 hours which would be great. Doing it myself it could take months and might still get it wrong.

3 - I keep seeing references to "BB"code, is that Bulletin Board code? Different from php?

1. Purchasing vbulletin for your forum is defiantly something you don't regret. For domain names, that is cheap - $10 a year. Hosting depends how big you are costs varies. Since you are new, you can get shared hosting. It can be as cheap as $5 at some places.

2. If you purchased a license, you will be able to download all the mods and styles and such with no problem. Nothing is really limited besides that. As for doing it yourself is not hard at all. If you know basics, it won't take you too long at all. Plus it isn't hard to learn and mostly everything doesn't need to be coded. The mods are simple addons and simple editing of the codes. Nothing too hard unless you are coding a mod by yourself.

3. BB code is coding like html, but used on forums. Such as for bolding in html is:

<b></b>

as for in bb code it is this:

[b][/b]

Hope I was an assistance!