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Which is the best platform to build an online community on?

Great “Ask David!” question. The short answer: If you want a self-hosted platform that gives you full control and comes with social networking features built in – such as member profiles, activity feeds, forums, messaging, and media sharing – UltimateWB … Continue reading

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Which forum CMS lets authors moderate their own topics? built-in or extension?

UltimateWB has a built-in forum app. Besides letting admins/moderators to moderate topics/posts, it also allows the authors to edit their own topic posts/posts – but not the posts of others, even if it is for their topic. They can however … Continue reading

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How can I start an e-commerce business?

Build an e-commerce website. Best way to do this is with UltmateWB – it has a built-in e-commerce app with lots of features, and it’s very flexible and customizable. if you want to allow for multiple sellers, use the classifieds … Continue reading

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What are your 5 favorite websites? Why?

Me We Too – It is very fun to learn about different people while also finding people like you. You make small one-sentence posts about yourself, your beliefs, experiences, likes, etc., and others vote “me too”, “hmm”, or “not me”, and … Continue reading

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What is the CMS equivalent of Shopify?

UltimateWB is even better than Shopify. They don’t require you to pay each time you make a sale, and it’s a lot less inexpensive monthly. Plus you get web hosting choice – you can host your website there or download … Continue reading

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What are the tradeoffs of building a custom CMS versus using an off-the-shelf or open source CMS?

With a custom CMS you have to keep the coding up-to-date, rather than just install the update – so that could be a huge difference in maintenance time and cost needed. Also it takes more time and cost to develop … Continue reading

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Why do some websites remove .HTML from the URL?

It is more user friendly and SEO friendly to have “clean urls” that are easy to read and remember. A lot of website builders, like UltimateWB, let you choose the page URL without the .html, or whatever the extension is. … Continue reading

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What fun, useful, educational, or entertaining websites do you recommend?

You can learn a lot about other people and it’s very fun too on the social app Me We Too – you post about yourself, your experiences, beliefs, likes, etc, and other people vote “me too”, “hmm”, or “not me”. … Continue reading

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What is the best way to embed a form on my website to collect users email addresses?

The best way is with the UltimateWB built-in mailing list app. Then you can also send out mailers to your mailing list. It is easy to use and integrate in your website. There are a lot of customization options, such … Continue reading

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How can I meet or date girls who enjoy coding?

There’s the coronavirus pandemic now, so that makes the IRL (in real life) meetings a lot harder, right?! On the Me We Too app, post something like “I enjoy coding”, and others will vote “me too”, “hmm”, or “not me” on your … Continue reading

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