Where and how???

Iceman

Iceman

Iceman

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Right then i have a website that is up and running, I want to link a forum to the site.
A) where do i upload the phpbb to? I have public_html
DO i make new folder and upload there???
B)How do i link to the forums? I have home, contact and services. They all link to pages on the site, do you link forums like this or is there something im missing??

Thanks
 
Managed to upload a forum into my public_html folder. One question how do i link the forums page to my website? So people can click "forums" button and be taken to them.
 
<a href="http://www.mb-computers.net/forums/">Forums</a>

This is HTML, presuming you're using an editor now or a CMS of some kind. What are you using to update your website?

Basically all you want to do is create a new hyperlink/link to the location of the forum i.e. http://www.mb-computers.net/forums/ - it's the same method you've been using (probably) to create your other pages and link them together, like your contact page and so on.
 
Im using a website editor built into the Cpanel on my hosting account. I tried this on a tester site and it linked to my forums. Now it just shows as the text and not as a link..
 
click the html icon and put your link in or highlight the text and select the link icon.
p-link-icon.png
 
Ahh right its ok for some reason that option is not high lighted, but i went in to my file manager and edited it live so to speak.
Anyway i have pages down the left hand side of my main website, the "forums" page takes me to a page where i have put in the link above.
Is there a way where you can click on the page link on the left and go directly to the forums??

Thanks.
 
find

"<td class="menuleft"><a href="1_5_Forums.html">Forums</a></td>"

change it to

"<td class="menuleft"><a href="forums/">Forums</a></td>"

in your template. I dunno how it's structured, but I think you'll need to change that on all your pages.


tbh... what I ultimately suggest you do, is spend a weekend learning HTML/CSS, it's VERY simple and it'll solve a lot of issues you may have in future.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Then get a template from

http://www.oswd.org

and modify it as much as you can to learn how it all works. It'll be dead useful and it's very simple to do. Don't worry about the overly technical stuff, just get a feel for the code/basics.
 
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Thank you very much for your help. I shall spend some time looking over what you have suggested.
 
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