Microsoft Office Live Small Business Community

I am in the process of building a website and want to know if anyone knows of any Forum Software that will work with microsoft office live small business, I have overcome all other problems that I had but this one is stumping me. Any help will be eagerly accepted

Hello chris:

The way I resolved this issue was just to embed a phpbb message board into a office live small business webpage (http://silvermoonfurniture.com/forum.aspx) by using a iframe. Since office live small business doesn't directly support php, mysql, server side applications, etc.

Gary
New Mountain Tavern		Silver Moon Furniture

Gary,

Thanks for the info, can you explain in easy terms what I have to do to install it onto my Website?

I know it sounds daft but I am thick when it comes to technical stuff on computers!!!!

Chris

Hello Chris:

First of all with trying anything new always try it on a test page and not one of your main pages first this way if you have a opppppz it will not have a effect on your main pages. To explain the procedure in plain english what you are doing is placing a existing message forum (located on another server) on your office live small business website pages. For me I just added the address of the message forum (marked in red) I want to use into the following code and just add it in a html module (page manager/insert/modules/html)

<iframe src="http://tapq.com/observereffect/coastriders/index.php" width="730px" height="400px" frameborder="0" marginwidth ="0px" marginheight="0px" scrolling="auto"></iframe>

Gary
New Mountain Tavern		Silver Moon Furniture

Is Tapq the website you used to get the iframe code? Or the name of your website? I would love to add an iframe as html opposed to hosting my forum in an outside domain. Any help you can give me to figure out what I should change the code in red to, would be helpful. Thanks so much Gary!

Corinne

Hello Corinne:

The address in red is the actual location of the forum that I have embeded into the webpage on office live. Office live currently does not support php, mysql, server side applications, etc, so I just host these services on a server that does and then just embed it into a webpage on office live. For you to use the code I have written you just need to change the address in red to the address of where you have your message board located at. with different message board services you might have to change the height and width in the code for it to display properly.

Gary
New Mountain Tavern		Silver Moon Furniture

Thanks Gary,

I think I'm just retarded! I tried to change it and it still didn't work. Did you have to set it up in an outside account and then they issue you the iframe? Or you programmed it yourself? My website is called ilovebrentking.com, and I'm trying to add a forum to the about us area of the site map... but I'm still not getting what I should change the red section to I guess. Thanks for your help...

Corinne

Corinne, first try copying Gary's code exactly as is and put it into an HTML module on a test page.  See if you can load HIS forum.   Once you get that running, replace the red part (between the quotes) with the address of YOUR forum.

www.fidalgoweather.net
Check the Masters Forum for help and good ideas.
For beginners: Getting started with OLSB.

Hello Corinne:

There is no problem and I will be happy to explain more in detail and will answer the orginal question, currently there is not any compatable forum software that will work directly on office live, but you are able to use a forum that is setup on another server that supports forums (php). The forum I used in my demo belongs to a friend. The iframe code I wrote myself with help I received from StudioAllen's Tips and Solutions website. There are many places where you can create a free message forum online and then just place the url address of the message forum you have created into the code.

Gary
New Mountain Tavern		Silver Moon Furniture

Thanks Dave,

His code works on my site, so that's a good sign. I guess my question is what should the address for MY forum be. I tried just changing the URL to mine, but then it tells me page not found... So I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Thanks for the tip, anymore tips would be great. I literally don't even know how I managed to create a website thus far, I have no idea what I'm doing... ha.

Corinne

RxDave:

Corinne, first try copying Gary's code exactly as is and put it into an HTML module on a test page.  See if you can load HIS forum.   Once you get that running, replace the red part (between the quotes) with the address of YOUR forum.

Thank you RxDave:

Corinne the solution RxDave posted above is the simplest solution

Gary
New Mountain Tavern		Silver Moon Furniture

Hello Corinne:

what is the address for your forum?

Gary
New Mountain Tavern		Silver Moon Furniture

Corinne, it sounds like you need to sign up with a forum hosting service.  After you have done that, they will provide the URL that you need.  Check StudioAllen's or OfficeLivePages sites in the Masters Forum for some recommended forum services. 

www.fidalgoweather.net
Check the Masters Forum for help and good ideas.
For beginners: Getting started with OLSB.

Thanks for all the info, I now have my forum software installed on my office live site, unfortunately this has led to another question!!!

I am using ForumUp, as far as I can see all the forum software works on the same principle, but how do I go from forum back to say my home page or back to the site, is there something I can do on the administration pages to insert a link? I have tried creating a banner with a click return link but this fails to work for some reason, any help again would be appreciated.