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by mmschweizer » Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:30 pm
Hello all,
I host a board about boards! (Wood surfboards) I have limited computer experience. I can do your basic MS Office stuff, and maybe a few little things here and there with posting stuff, but I had never created a website, much less host a bulletin board.
Through reading posts here and figuring stuff out, I was able to create my forum, change the look of it, and if I may brag, it looks darned good! Well the problem came when I was trying to update and somehow I really screwed up and the forum shut down. When I say shut down, I mean all you got was a blank screen with an error message! I was able to go into the FTP and reload each file one by one and got the admin portion working, but still it would crash. Well finally I figured by the error message which file was causing the problem and I replaced that file and my wife thought I had been stung by a bee or something because I jumped and screamed when the forum popped back up working perfectly!
I figure a lot of you here are probably computer programmers, but I thought you would appreciate that I figured all this out just by reading posts here on how to do stuff. I guess it's like when I, being a professional wood surfboard builder, get excited when someone who has never built a thing in his life builds a cool wood surfboard for the first time. I hope you will all share the stoke with me at figuring out PHPBB with no prior programming experience!
Also posting to introduce myself- longtime lurker, now official forum member. I firmly believe in proper introductions before you go posting dumb questions!!
Cheers,
Malcolm