[Trigamer]

Background: I have been informed that I need to make a website that will include a forum. Now I want to know what kind of forum will allow me to keep the original navigation bar that I will give my website. As in when you create the forum it will not just be a stand alone forum where you would if you want to visit other areas of the site have to click the back button on your browser. So ideally I want a forum with the navigation bar still on top of the forum where if I click on the navigation bar it will view other parts of the website instead of viewing just the forum.

I apologize if some of my words are confusing because I don't know exactly how to describe what I need help in. Also if possible I would like people to tell me what forums are good. I have already looked at FreeForums.org and Joomla!.org.

[smax013]

Trigamer, on 08 November 2009 - 01:04 PM, said:

Background: I have been informed that I need to make a website that will include a forum. Now I want to know what kind of forum will allow me to keep the original navigation bar that I will give my website. As in when you create the forum it will not just be a stand alone forum where you would if you want to visit other areas of the site have to click the back button on your browser. So ideally I want a forum with the navigation bar still on top of the forum where if I click on the navigation bar it will view other parts of the website instead of viewing just the forum.

I apologize if some of my words are confusing because I don't know exactly how to describe what I need help in. Also if possible I would like people to tell me what forums are good. I have already looked at FreeForums.org and Joomla!.org.

I assume you mean much like what you see above for the PCWorld site?

While it is not exactly that full same format, etc as the "main" PCWorld website pages, you still get the main navigation menu items for the whole PCWorld website at the top of all the forum pages.

To my knowledge, this is generally a web programming issue, not necessarily a forum issue. While there might be some forum software that requires it "own pages", I suspect that most will work "within" regular web programming.

Thus, it is certainly do able, but I personally I have no clue how to do it, etc.