Reviews of Question and Answer Scripts (aka Yahoo Answer Clones)
I just spent the last several days going through all the different “Yahoo Answers clone” scripts that I could find for a project that Michele and I had been tossing around… grundlæggende var ideen at installationsprogrammet en Vegas-baserede spørgsmål og svar websted på Vegas svar.
I looked at a lot of different options and this is the list I came up with for all the available ways to do this type of site and my thoughts on each :
ANOVA.tv – Dette syntes ligesom brancheførende software. Det ser bare virkelig poleret. If you take a look at the website and some of the sites that have used this platform, you can see it’s just beautiful. The downside is that it’s much more expensive than the other options. For the basic version, it will set you back $147 as I write this. The “pro” version comes with a few more features like a forum and blog and will set you back $247.
AnswerScript.com – Dette var den billigst betalte jeg løsning og det kører $24. Jeg lide lige ikke den måde det kiggede og følte, Selvom, så jeg ikke bruge meget tid med det.
Q&Et tema for WordPress WP svar – Dette var en indstilling jeg udforskes i omkring tyve minutter… the idea was just to use a plugin I’d found called WP Answers and mix it with a cool Q & A Theme that I’d dug up. It was going cost $24 as well going this route. This was really tempting for me because I am really growing to love WordPress. But for the type of interactivity I wanted for my Q&A site, I didn’t think a WP-based site was the best option.
IKNanswers layered over Joomla – Ved $50, this seemed like not a horrible way to go if you’re good with Joomla. I’ve never done anything with Joomla, so I didn’t want to start unless the script really knocked me out… and it didn’t.
StackOverflow.com – This was an interesting option for me because the software looks pretty polished and it’s free. But it’s only free while it is in beta and there is no guarantee that it will stay free… in fact it almost certainly won’t once they iron out the bugs. The future seemed uncertain.
QuestionAnswerScript.com – This is the one I finally went with. The price was a hefty $79, but it had a lot of features I liked (like the point and leaderboard system) and it seemed like it would be easy enough to install. Before shelling out the dough, Jeg kaldte støtte antallet sørge for jeg ville nå nogen. Pas, fordi kunden understøtter nummer var der angiveligt 24×7 didn’t get me through to anyone. I emailed and got a response a few hours later. So I bit the bullet and pulled the trigger. Det tog dem en fuld seks timer til email mig oplysninger om overførsel og installation guide blev slags ubrugelig. The customer support is not really impressive. If you don’t feel comfortable with setting up MySQL databases and changing file permissions on your webhost server, you’d probably be better off paying the extra money for them to install it. Det tog mig omkring tre timer og én give-up og frisk start før det virkede som om det var meningen at. Når det blev installeret, omkring halvdelen af de 12 skabeloner fungerede højre ud af kassen… you’ll need a little css know-how to get them looking like they should. Other than that, it’s really cool. Selv har en import indstilling til at udfylde webstedet med indhold fra Yahoo svar (Selvom, I wouldn’t really suggest doing that because it’s going to violate some copyright laws, men du behøver ikke at gøre spørgsmål og svar du importere levende, so it’s a nice feature if you use it to basically rewrite the most popular questions and answers).
If you want to check out the site I created with this last script, check it out at Vegas svar!.
