Jun
30
2006
| Invision Power Board 2: A User Guide |
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| Friday, 30 June 2006 | |
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Chapter 1 gives you and overview of IPB, its history and its benefits. Ideally I would be nice to seen a comparison of IPB to rival forums, especially as most of IPBs rivals are given away free, but that would have distracted from the book‚ "manual" status. Chapter 2 explains your options for purchasing IPB (it's a minimum of $70) and then installing it. The whole procedure is not difficult and the book covers it in less than 10 pages. Chapter 3 takes you through what the user will see. You get a tour that includes posting, searching, messaging and also the Calendar and the User Control Panel. Its easy to see how a relatively long chapter like this (nearly 30 pages) could be a great help to someone setting up an IPB for the first time. Chapter 4 does the same for the administration section and is equally comprehensive. It is in Chapters 5 and 6 that the book moves from introducing us to IPB to telling us how to run a live site. These sections cover more advanced forum control and by the end I felt that a beginner would have had few problems following the explanations. Chapter 7 is different from the rest of the book because it contains general advice on how to run a successful forum. Chapter 8 is the only part of the book that approaches IPB from anything like a technical angle. It explains how to manage the site's skins and includes a discussion of how IPB achieves certain effects using CSS, XHTML and Macros. All-in-all, IPB2AUG does what it does remarkably well. The book is small but well-written with copious images. Someone working quickly could use this book to set up and understand a site within 4 or 5 hours. How often could you say that about the brick-like book that you used to get out of the box? Click here to read more about IPB2: A User Guide. Set as favorite Bookmark
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