Help me create a craigslist type board for my company

November 6, 2007 11:09 AM

I have been assigned to create a craigslist-like community board for my company's internal website. The basic idea is to have a place for 100+ employees to post classifieds, events, etc. The only problem is I have limited (no) web database knowledge or experience. Is there any kind of community board templates or software that can be easily set up?
posted by ieatwords to computers & internet (5 comments total)

I've seen some really nice forums made using the Vanilla bb package. E.g.
posted by acro at 11:18 AM on November 6, 2007

Seconding Vanilla, a friend runs a board with 2k+ members on Vanilla, and seems happy with it.
posted by migurski at 12:01 PM on November 6, 2007

Edgeio's classified boards might work.
posted by superfem at 12:12 PM on November 6, 2007

It seems that Vanilla doesn't have a classified plugin; AJ Classified via hotscripts.com might be a possability.
posted by acro at 7:27 AM on November 8, 2007

UNB 'Unclassified NewsBoard'. Demo here.
posted by acro at 7:51 AM on November 8, 2007