This book will guide you through installing, configuring, managing & maintaining a vBulletin discussion forum on your own website. The book begins with the initial installation & configuration of vBulletin on your system. You will then go on a tour of vBulletin and its features, for both users & administrators. This will grow your understanding and familiarise you with the power & possibilities of vBulletin. vBulletin's Administration Control Panel is where you can control every aspect of your board. From users, forums & word filters to skins, templates & maintenance, everything can be done through the web-based control panel. The book devotes significant sections to covering these, getting you up to speed on the options available to you, and offering advice to help you make the right choices with your board administration. To make your forums stand out from the rest, skins & templates are covered to take your first steps in customising your forum. vBulletin, well known for its power & speed, drives many of the most popular discussion forums on the Internet.Building Forums with vBulletin does exactly what it says on the cover. You will:- Install and configure vBulletin;- Learn your way around vBulletin with a guided tour;- Customise your forum to meet the unique requirements of your community;- Administer users & posts, appoint staff to moderate your forum;- or moderate it yourself;- See how to upgrade your vBulletin installation, or upgrade other forum systems to vBulletin;- Create a beautiful forum by designing templates or adjusting existing ones; - Install hacks to change vBulletin's behaviour or add new features; & more.