Now you've gotten vBulletin installed it's time to make some quick customizations to your install.

Note: If you're smart (read: not me), you will take note of the changes you've made. This can be done either on a piece of paper or a simple text file on your computer.

The first thing you should do is change your meta data. These are the keywords search engine spiders see for your site. The defaults are vbulletin, jelsoft, and the description usually goes: This is a discussion forum powered...

Now comes the easy part, installing vBulletin. For this you're going to need web hosting that includes PHP & MySQL, this is standard on most packages.

To install vBulletin you will need the following:

• Hosting
• Database already setup with a user
• Text Editor (or use windows notepad)
• FTP Program

Download vBulletin from the members center, unzip all the files. Open the folder containing the unzipped files, find upload/includes/config.php.new and open it with a text editor. Fill...