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Arno, I'm getting my website setup and am a real novice at interactive web pages. I would love to have a support forum with user registration like you're using here. Any recommendations as to code?

Been looking at the options for taking payments and unlocking downloads and they're pretty cryptic. I have access to Visual Studio .net but there seems to be a stiff learning curve.

Art
 
Hi Art,

artmartin said:
Arno, I'm getting my website setup and am a real novice at interactive web pages. I would love to have a support forum with user registration like you're using here. Any recommendations as to code?
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I am certainly not an expert in coding my own website/forum :). But luckily there are quite a few packages available that you can use.

This website is running the vBulletin forum. I think it has the most features of the forums I have seen around and I like it very much. But the downsite is that it is not free to use, you will have to buy it.

Another often used forum package is phpBB, this one is free to use and also has quite a lot of features. We also use that with the scenery team I am a member of.

I guess if you google around you will find a lot other forums you could use (or just check some forums you visit yourself and see what they use).

artmartin said:
Been looking at the options for taking payments and unlocking downloads and they're pretty cryptic. I have access to Visual Studio .net but there seems to be a stiff learning curve.
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I assume you want to have the key in the installer itself? As I have only released freeware myself I wouldn't know how to make this really failsafe. Have you tried to contact other devellopers and ask how they did it?
 
Arno thanks. Looked at a number of forum links today including phpbb. As for the installer, adding a key to it really only keeps the honest people honest. Let's face it. With FS scenery, once someone has it on their machine, there's nothing stopping them from copying it to someone else.

My major hope is simply to prevent download from the site or shipping a CD to the customer without payment and hope for the good in people as far as the pirating. Believe me, if I was trying to make a lot of money, pretty sure scenery design wouldn't be way.

Art
 
Hi Art,

OK, I understand the copying part now. It indeed makes sense. But I assume there must be software that does that? For example some "online shop" software or so, where you can only download the files once you have paid for it? I must say I never explored those, as I have not needed them.
 
Arno, all this discovery of new techniques and skills is one of my motivations behind this project. I'm a programmer by trade but the bulk of my experience has been corporate applications with no link to the internet. My only past playing with creating websites was making a page for the rock band I was in and it did little more than post gig info and show pictures. Very simple HTML.

I've learned more in the past week about website design than I have in the past 5 years. Well worth the effort.

Art
 
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