Question about Proboards

[pitbulllady]

I have a question for anyone who has helped build a Proboards forum, like this one, since I couldn't find any reference to this on their Support forum. How do you go about finding out if a particular board already exists, since unlike Ezboard, I can't find any forum search feature here? If it doesn't exist, how do you go about creating one? I've been in contact with someone who wants to start a forum, largely for the same reason we had to move to this one, i.e, spammers, trolls and no mods.

pitbulllady

[Ranger Parsec]

I have no idea how you can search or even browse their board choices. That part I dislike about proboards: you can't find any other boards, unless you happen upon them somewhere.

However, I can help you in building them. I've actually built my own recently. fantastic4movie.proboards44.com/. And it's quite simple, really. On proboards.com, you go to "Sign Up" (obviously) and register for a board. Once you get though all the confirmations and login "red tape", they'll give you an address to the board where you can edit everything (once logged in).

There, you can find an "Admin" button (only shows up if you're an admin or mod). Right there you can do everything you see here. It's pretty easy to find what you need, because they have it categorized. It's labelled plainly. . .such as "Create Board", "Delete Board", "Move Board", "Create Category" (which you use to categorize the clusters of boards).

More confusing editing tools for the forums are. . .
"News Fader" is that fading notice you see on the main page here.
"Avatars" are for the ProBoards present avs, I usually don't mess with it.
"General Settings" are just that.
"Skins/Forum Colors" you can use to edit the entire look of the forum, colors, title images, etc. Just edit the Default, or if you so choose, create various looks that your visitors can personally choose.
"Headers and Footers" this is used to add text messages (and, I suppose maybe images, I dunno, I didn't mess with that one) to the top and bottom of the forums. On the "header", it would be normally be placed between the ads and the title image up there. Don't confuse this category for that Randall image up top - that kind of thing you edit with "Skins/Forum Colors".
"Censored Words" is the fun area where you can choose which words to censor and what they should change to.

And you don't even need to know the color codes to change the colors for your forum or anything. They make building it pretty simple. You can just look at the various editing things and they usually explain themselves.

I hope that helped somewhat. *scratches head* I tried to be as helpful and informative as possible.

[I ♥ umbrellas]

There is no way of finding a particular proboard unless you use google. I can help you on making one though. All you have to do is go to this link www.proboards.com/signup.html and fill in the information required and then once activated you can do whatever you wish to your very own proboard.

[RandallBoggs]

She wanted to find one....

Anyway....just type Proboards then what your looking for.

Or you could try "Groups" on google and just type what you want. There have been boards in groups so it might work...

[lizardgirl]

Yeah, the best you can do is look on google.