Topic: Im New at this.. Please help!

hi guys/gals i am new at building websites and i have winged it up to here i have got the forums part of the website installed and have received a message from the admin saying log in and go to admin contol panel to setup forums.. i cant find the admin panel though.. i know ur prob laughing at me.. oh well someone please help me.. thank you

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Re: Im New at this.. Please help!

it is in the navigation bar at the top.
or u can type it in your browser

http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/admin_index.php

we dont laugh at you here, we help you smile

Re: Im New at this.. Please help!

hey i still cant seem to find it... when i got to this page and then i click on punBB it takes me straight into the forums.. when i get there im not seeing any way to get to the control panel..

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Re: Im New at this.. Please help!

http://www.bda.clanservers.com/punBB/
Login here
There will be a link on top in the nav bar called "Administration": click on it

Re: Im New at this.. Please help!

ummm still not seeing it this is what it looks like to me

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Re: Im New at this.. Please help!

AHHH i figured out one reason it doesnt show me the admin panel at the top... im not registered as a admin... k now how do i register as a admin.. it just shows me as member?

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[BDA]-deitznuts wrote:

AHHH i figured out one reason it doesnt show me the admin panel at the top... im not registered as a admin... k now how do i register as a admin.. it just shows me as member?

Register is an admin? Wouldn't that be a serious problem if you could do that...? :s

Re: Im New at this.. Please help!

Looks like he switched to phpBB wink

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Smartys wrote:

Looks like he switched to phpBB wink

hah, great move that was...

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Hi,
This looks like the thread for me.  Don't be downhearted.  I only found out what the Internet was 3 months ago, so they can all laugh at me instead.  I've now got my website up, want to put a forum on, but am having great problems with the vocabulary of this site.  Please, can anyone be bothered to go back to the beginning and tell me what a zipped file is, how you unzip it, at what point I have to put my forum kit 'behind my web' " (whatever that means) and how I go about setting up a database.......and how to tie my shoelaces.
PS I am serious
PPS Except about the shoelaces.

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Use WinZip http://www.winzip.com/ to unzip the file.

You can ask your host for support on setting up a database etc, that's what you pay them for.

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Yes, but I've had trouble there.  One line replies with terms I don't get, followed by an hours wait for a reply to what does .... mean adds up to half an hours work taking a week.