Martin Crockett

PunBB

I am just trialling a new BBS piece of software: PunBB. After using PHPBB to power another experimental site for a while, I stumbled upon this.
I’m quite sold on the ideology behind it:

The idea of PunBB was first born when I wanted to install a discussion board to a website I was tinkering with. I looked around quite a lot, but all the boards I found were either “over-featured” or too graphic for the purpose they would be filling. I wanted a package that

• was fast.
• had a simple layout and design.
• was easy to administrate and moderate.
• didn’t output huge, non-valid, HTML pages.
• had source code you could read and understand.

So far, it seems to live up to expectations. I’m just tweaking the CSS file to bring the styles in-line with the other areas of my website.
My new BBS software.
Well, after having a play around with it, I’ve found a few flaws. It relies on a *lot* of hard-coded HTML TABLEs. Doing a search for TABLE tags reveals around 136 instances.