Myself and a friend had discussed doing a forum on our favourite game, Football Manager, for a while. We set one up with phpBB, but agreed that all the big successful rivals had either IPB or VB. Essentially, professional software which they had paid for.

I argued that phpBB can be skinned to not look as much like phpBB, but he said it would be worth it. We decided on VB, as it was slightly cheaper and my small experience using it here. So, we went halfs on a year leased license (deciding...

Jack Franklin