Re. SMF, PhP BB and YaBB, do you know if:

- they provide APIs so that I can post text to the forum through a "program" or another programming "environment" where I can write scripts to simulate entries as if they were made by me through a browser???

- how do I set-up such an "environment"?

... Raj

Hope you had a great 4th Todd.

I did not know then, but kindda know now that I have created 2 forums at HostGator: One PhP and the other is Yabb.

I was trying to make PhP forum work and I went to CPanel, and don't remember what I clicked but it came up with a Yabb page with terms and conditions with a button: Install. I clicked that and ...whoa .. I got another forum at http://hitechspirit.com/yabb/YaBB.pl on top of the PhP forum at http://hitechspirit.com/index.php !!

Even though the forums look empty, I played around with the administration and postings quite a bit.

Todd,

So I took your advice and pointed my domain hitechspirit.com to the NameServers you have listed. It took 24 hours - which was to be expected.

Then I signed up with HostGator. They sent me an email after 30 minutes listing different NameServers. This confused in several ways. First I didn't know if I should change the NameServers or will they?? I wrote them an email and I am waiting to hear from them.

Anyway I could not wait. So I plunged ahead - I wanted to blog an entry after all!

Todd!

Many thanks for your time, and I hope WebDev HOWTO becomes a great resource.

I was no longer young when Web 1.0 erupted in 2000 and I worked hard to keep up. Even then, to create a website I had outsource the task to professionals or had to use dumbed out, ready-to-use tools like Website Tonight etc.