San Gabriel Mountains Discussion Forum

Rob · Joined: 27 Sep 2007 Posts: 155 Location: San Diego, CA

Domain Name: SANGABRIELMOUNTAINS.COM
Registrar: MONIKER

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Rob · Joined: 27 Sep 2007 Posts: 155 Location: San Diego, CA

sgmdf.com is available!
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platypii · Joined: 26 Jan 2009 Posts: 19 Location: LA

sangabrielmountains.net is available. (like rob said, .com is not)

When I followed the "Buy a domain to use with your forum" link at the bottom, they listed it as $15/yr for most domain names.

I'd be happy to donate a year or two's worth of domain name if there is some consensus on what site to buy.

So what do people think?

sangabrielmountains.net
sangabrielmtns.com
sgmdf.com
willclimbfortacos.org

lilbitmo · Joined: 04 Mar 2008 Posts: 444 Location: Orange County

TacoDelRio · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:01 pm Post subject:

Arright.

I'll go ahead and throw my idea out there. I want to make a site for SoCal mountains. All of them. User submitted data. Like Summitpost, but personal.

I have no idea how to make a website. I've not yet taken any classes on it.

Rob · Joined: 27 Sep 2007 Posts: 155 Location: San Diego, CA

platypii · Joined: 26 Jan 2009 Posts: 19 Location: LA

Well if you want to upgrade the forum too, you'll probably need more than just the domain name. You'll need a hosting service, and you need to figure out what bulletin board software to use.

I think summitpost uses their own custom software. It would require a lot of work and knowledge to build a site like that from scratch.

Drupal is worth considering. Drupal is a very very powerful content management system, but is relatively easy to set up. Since it is pretty popular, there is a good amount of support on the web for it. Depending on which features you use with it, it can be a message board, blog, forum, wiki and more.

Do you have an idea of what you would want the site to look like? what features?

Anyway, my offer is still on the table to buy a domain name for the site. It can just be pointed at this forum until you upgrade. What domain would you like best? Could we do a poll of some sort?

TacoDelRio · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:24 am Post subject:

phpBB is pretty good. This site uses it. The full version has a few really good features, like the user control panel.

I was thinking socalmountains dot com or net etc, covering the San Gabriel, San Bernardino, San Jacinto, and all other ranges here.

TacoDelRio · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:26 am Post subject:

Nevermind, it appears that address already exists. Seems to be a residential forum more than anything having to do with mountain activities.

HikeUp · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:18 pm Post subject:

www . fightoff . com