You know, it’s actually not as hard as it looks.
I own and run several forums.
The first one I downloaded to my desktop, copied into Front Page and uploaded… Did my modifying & added my styles after that.
This one was a few clicks. No downloading or anything… Only because my hosting plan (with myself, lol) has the phpBB software pre-installed. So a few clicks and BOOM! you have a forum. Then it’s just a matter of tweaking.
It uses phpBB open source software. There are tons of mods & styles available. So you can choose from 100s of skins (styles) out there.
The graphics I did myself…. It was a matter of taking part of the banner that was already there and layering…
I added a few links across the top to my Blog and home page just by modifying a file. My Blog is basically installed the same way… pre-installed… but I heavenly modified it by adding the banner across the top, links, adsense and even modified the code to add copyright info to my RSS feeds…
For the Forum Everything else is done via an Admin panel that is really easy to use.
So it’s just a matter of choosing the right styles and modifying it a bit. PHP isn’t too hard to tweak.
There are 100s of things like modules that you can simply add to your forum to make it do this and that. You can add additional security features, styles, smilie paks, and other Ad Ons…
Modifications
There is a Mod Install tool called “EasyMod” that makes installing some of these a snap.
Highly recommend it if you want an easy set up and total control of your universe.
They have a big support community rapped around the software as well:
phpBB Community
Yes, it says 190,000 registered users & 1.5 million posts!  I’ve never actually joined, but there is a lot of great help there…
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