Building a Forum

[Wheelz]

Hey SF, im going to start building my first website tomorrow :biggrin:,
I would like it to be a gaming/clan forum,
do you guys have any advice or tips to what mods or programs to use for this,
Ive never built a website before, I do know moderate HTML though, so all your help would be appreciated,
I've heard about mods such as PHPMyAdmin and MyBB so any advice for which is best for a forum would be awesome,
also any hosting advice would be great :biggrin:
by the way here is a example forum that I really like and would kind of like mine to look like,
http://mpgclan.com/portal.php

Thanks
Wheelz

[Prominent]

http://www.000webhost.com/ For a free host
http://www.godaddy.com/ For a paid host
That forum you referred to uses myBB , there are a lot of similar themes you can use .

[Wheelz]

Thanks man, so all I have to do is sign up on this site and I get free hosting and domain name, and I can just start uploading mybb installation to it via filezilla?

[FireMonkeyFun]

Your domain will have freehosting in it. That's not a real problem though. You can use this for a free domain. It will redirect to the real site. Once you get your host then yes you will upload mybb to the site with filezilla. I would search on here for a tutorial on that if you don't know how to.

[Blixx]

I wont go with free hosting. If you sign up at 000webhost, you will only get a subdomain. I would bye a cheap domain and hosting at Godaddy.com
Then you need to install mybb and you can start setting up your forum like you want.

[Akinova]

Mybb forum is best for you it's a feature rich forum script.
btw i will also suggest you to get a paid host because from that you can do much more things..

you can get some good themes from here
http://www.awesomestyles.com/mybb-themes

[WhosYourDaddy]

I might sound evil, but in my honest opinion .. If you have no idea what phpMyAdmin,MyBB is .. please, don't start any kind of website, it will be pointless.

[Bigandrewgold]

well first of all mybb and phpmyadmin are not mods.

phpmyadmin is a thing that is usually inside of cpanel that lets you look at and edit databases(along with other things)

mybb is a forum software that is free. It is probably what you will want to use to make a forum. It comes with that portal page. mybb is what this forum uses.