One of my sites contains a forum and I use PhpBB as the forum software.

For the past 3 months I’ve had to delete lots of spam posts every day. I tried a few ‘plugins’ gathered from the PhpBB forums but they didn’t seem to do the trick.

Anyway, when upgrading to the latest version of PhpBB I went looking for a ‘no spam’ solution and discovered Anti-Spam ACP from Lithium Studios.

It includes better captcha on registration, allows you to take away certain fields and allows you to ‘only allow urls/website’ etc. on a certain number of posts. (It does more than this… check the readme)

It works a treat… no spam whatsoever and it’s simple to use (I’m no Php coder… I use ASP)

To download it and for help with it visit Anti-Spam ACP on the Lithium Studios forum.

For my upcoming social networking website I've built a custom forum and I'll be replacing the PhpBB forum with my own once I think it's ready and tested.

I’ve been keeping my head down this week, working on the social networking website (based around concerts).

For the 4th time I’ve decided to redesign the site – it always looks good at first, until I realise I’ve gone off it. There’s an interesting post over on Zane Jamal’s blog regarding “designing for you” and I’ll take some of that advice for the next time.

Once the design is done I’ve just got a couple of things to add before I can start running a semi-private test of the site. I’m going to give the initial batch of testers 10 invites to give to others. Ideally this will keep the number of visitors down in the initial stages while hopefully creating a ‘bit of buzz’ – we shall see.