Useful links for alliances (forums/toplists etc.)

[ScoutBot]

After asking permission from Tytrox on the Kings of Chaos forums, I was allowed to copy this post here, for everyones use. Enjoy


Free forums:
for these forums you don't need your own server. they host your forum.
http://www.invisionfree.com
http://www.proboards.com
http://www.bravenet.com
http://www.freeforum.com
http://www.ipbforum.com

for these forums you do need your own server. You have to host it.
http://www.phpbb.com
http://www.yabbforum.com
http://yazd.yasna.com

Top alliance lists
you'll get a link when you sign up your alliance here. When more of your members click it, your alliance will rise in the list.
http://www.rpgtopsites.com

Basic click list
everyone can sign up one of these, you should start with something like this if you don't have a great coder in your alliance.
http://www.theclickmaster.net

Chat room
A chat room to talk to your members directly is also very important. Most people use mIRC to chat with others in a channel you can make.
http://www.mirc.com

Free image hosters
A place where you can put your banners or other images online for free.
http://www.photobucket.com
http://www.villagephotos.com
http://www.ripway.com
http://www.lycos.fr (or lycos.co.uk or lycos.nl)
http://www.angelfire.com
http://www.freewebs.com
http://www.digistash.com
http://www.imagejunk.com
http://www.imageshack.us


If you would like to add anything to this list, please PM me, and I will add it

[Zelor.eXe]

I have nothing to add, very nice job scout

*edit, i did add the image shak link, so please disregard the previous statement in part *

I would however like to recommend for forums using an invisionfree forum, they have really good layouts and look very proffesional, but are a bit tricky to setup until you get the hang of it,
if you are a novice or new at this stuff, I would recommend the proboards, they arent as fancy, and not as many features, but are stikll a very good forum and extremely easy to setup and use.

As for photo hosting, I would go with photobucket, its a very good site, and easy to use, another one I use alot is http://www.imageshack.us/ it has one of the biggest file sizes allowed that I have seen, its also easy to use, but is a little more complicated, but photobucket should do because if you have an allaince banner, you dont want one with a massive file size ( imageshack allows up to 1.024 mb) because dial up users would have forever to wait for the picture to load up.

God bless you!

[hype]

One other free forum: http://www.greatboard.com/

Added:http://www.generationonline.co.uk/