Tagboards

Glarryg · Post by **Glarryg** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:08 am

Figured this question went best here, since it's technical in nature and not about drawing technique and such. Anyway, how does one implement a tagboard on one's site?

Glarryg

TTE · Post by **TTE** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:10 am

If you do a web search for "tag boards" you'll find some sites that offer them. The best known site is probably Tag-Board.com. After you register with them, you're given the code that you just copy and paste into your page and voila! it works! And they give you an administration section as well to help customize and moderate it.

Perk_daddy · Post by **Perk_daddy** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:37 am

I had one from tag-board.com for one whole day and my site kept getting popups like crazy whenever I was on it. I got rid of it and haven't seen any since.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:22 pm

I use one from Tag-Board.org, myself. It doesn't seem create pop-ups (at least, not in Firefox).

Post by **STrRedWolf** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:35 pm

There's also Shoutbox, which is also ad free.

However, Tag-Board.com is very much loaded up with ads. Don't get one if you want your admins to keep their hair! (Those who seen me in St. Louis know how much hair I don't have up top)

Jesslynstormheart · Post by **Jesslynstormheart** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:26 am

I tried a couple until I found one I liked. I didn't like the look of tagboard and Shoutbox wasn't working properly for me half the time. I finally settled on the one from http://www.shoutmix.com. That one has worked well for me. There are instructions on the site on how to set it up. Just choose a style and insert the code it gives you into your web site.

Tso · Post by **Tso** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:54 am

I've been using C-Box it seems to be working okay so far, no pop ups or anything like that.[/url]

Tenma · Post by **Tenma** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:46 pm

I used Tag-World for a good while there, but finally decided to cut out my Tagboard in the hopes of making the forum more active. (And to keep me from constantly refreshing to see what people were saying.)

I had no pop-ups, but it was getting a little laggy towards the end.

Post by **Kisai** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:32 pm

The only thing people need to keep in mind when using tagboards is to make sure it has an id attribute, otherwise the newsbox and advertisement sections will screw up (this is totally the fault of the javascript used for the tagboards)

Glarryg · Post by **Glarryg** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:38 am

Went to a few of those sites, and found it weird that Tag-board.org and Tag-world.com have nearly identical text (including some of the same typing and grammar errors). I suppose I should assume that they're mirror sites operated by the same people.

Glarryg

Johndar · Post by **Johndar** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:00 am

I'm goann put a vote in for cbox

Monotone · Post by **Monotone** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:50 am

I personally preffer using a shoutbox to a tagboard, because it's prettier and ad-free. I use myshoutbox.com, which is free and rather easy to configure.

Mayihelpyou · Post by **Mayihelpyou** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:19 pm

I checked out all the ones listed here.. cuz I wanted a nice shoutbox or tagbaord but that didn't look wacky with the rest of my site design. Of all of them, I'm the most pleased with myshoutbox.com. I can just link to a pop up window with the shoutbox in it, and it's ad-free AND it's inobtrusive to my comic.

I'm very happy with it. Now if people will just post there..

Picasso04 · Post by **Picasso04** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:48 pm

I used tag-world and it won't show up properly on my page. You can't add anything to it. I am probably doing something wrong. If someone could take a look and see what I might have coded wrong I would appreciate it. I'll try myshoutbox too since people seem to like it.

JTorch · Post by **JTorch** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:55 pm

If you want help, you should probably post a link to your page. We're not psychic.

Picasso04 · Post by **Picasso04** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:43 pm

http://lildudecomics.comicgenesis.com

But the www button on the user profile takes you to my website. Thats always there. Thanks for looking. I have a little banner to post but I have not been able to add attachments to my posts the last week or so for some reason.

Kirb · Post by **Kirb** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:45 am

We're not psychic.

SPEAK FOR YOURSELF.

I used to have a tag-board.com one, with my new site I switched to Cbox.

Smooth like buttah.

Picasso04 · Post by **Picasso04** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:40 am

Kirb, your page design is so unique, I love it! I'll give C-Box a try. Myshoutbox has too much extra stuff on the sign up page.

I got impatient with it.

Glarryg · Post by **Glarryg** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:37 am

Totally forgot about this...

I took a look at Cbox, and it says that the free service has ads. I assume everybody that posted here bought the Premium service, then, because I didn't get any pop-ups when I visited your sites.

Glarryg