Creating a forum

[oldexpat]

Could anyone possibly point me in the right direction of a company who are capable of creating a internet forum from scratch? It will be integrated into an existing web site. I know you can get pre made ones that you can slightly alter but we want to get a team of programmers to make one from scratch. Is it possible?

[squarebear]

Not quite sure why you would want one from scratch when there are so many free ones available. Try looking at proboards or phpboards via a search engine.

[oldexpat]

squarebear thanks. We have already had a look at these but we want something a buit more dynamic. We do have a substantial budget. The main reason we want to start from scratch is we want to completely change the layout and have ideas at how we want it to work. I have approached some web designers and its way out of their depth. But I am struggling to find any programmers.

[VHG]

I would not bother to create from scratch, as it would be a huge product and would need constantly maintenance, giving an ongoing cost.

Most of the pre built forums have plenty of options to change the look and feel.

[VHG]

btw If you DO want to continue with the idea of creating a forum then you need to ask the same question on a specialist forum for web designers.

Asking on a "general" forum like Answerbank is not going to hit the real technical web design community.

[tufnan]

I find question a bit strange when you also posted this as well.
http://www.theanswerb...s/Question927763.html

[oldexpat]

VHG do you know any of these forums at all? I appreciate it will have on going maintenance so that is no problem. tufnan I am curious what you found strange exactly?