Does anyone know a good forum?

Does anyone know of a good forum-building website?

• I'm working as a VISTA for Americorps. And we've been having several monthly meetings. We want to try to cut them down because have the things we bring up in the meeting can be discussed and solved elsewhere. Someone suggested using a facebook and getting a group for all of us, but I know some of the older people don't feel comfortable with that. So, I suggested we make an online forum. The only one I really know of is forummotion. And I only know of that because that is what my WoW guild uses. :] Anyway, I would like a forum that: -Has different widgets/applications you can add and remove at your leisure. -A calender feature where we could add events. -A roster (most have this, already). That's all I can think of right now, considering I'm brain dead at the moment. If anyone has any suggestions, please throw them out! Thank you for the help! -Kay

• Answer:

  As you may know a domain name is just a name, not a real website. If you are going to create your forum website: 1- Buy a domain name. To get a domain name, you have to pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to use that name. 2- Buy a web hosting service to provide your online space and enable you to get your website online at your purchased domain name. If you’re going to create a forum site at your own domain without any forced ads, you need a web host providing forum tools (phpbb or vbulletin). Take a look at: http://www.threehosts.com/forum Another useful link: http://www.threehosts.com/create There you can find a step-by-step guide to start your website. And a useful, informative article regarding your question: http://www.articlesbase.com/web-hosting-articles/how-to-create-a-forum-website-1037410.html Hope this helps.