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How important is design to the success of a forum?

How important do you think design is to the success of a forum?  It’s an extremely popular topic on web design forums.  Content or design?  Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum?
I don’t think anyone would argue that a forum can succeed without good content, but how big of a part [...]

Phishing with CareerBuilder.com

Just a warning for those that may not be well versed in how to tell if an email is a phishing attempt. I’ve noticed over the past day or so that there have been a lot of emails coming in that appear to be coming from CareerBuilder.com asking me to update my account information. [...]

Using $_GET and $_POST together

I find myself writing PHP scripts to do backend Ajax work.  One of the problems I often come up against is that I need to be able to call the same script either using a query string and pulling the variables from $_GET or via a form and calling the variables from $_POST.  I usually [...]

Adding a forum to a blog

I’ve been debating adding a forum to FBW for a while now. This weekend I decided it was time. Sure, there’s not as much traffic here as I would like and that’s probably going to lead to a fairly slow start to the forum. But every board’s got to start somewhere, right? [...]

Adsense notifier 0.9.6 released

A couple of months ago I noticed that the Adsense notifier down in my status bar was showing all zeros. At the same time Google started using Ajax in the Adsense pages to show reports, and I assumed the two were related. Since the last time there was a problem with the Adsense [...]