<p>I really want to run a forum, but I don’t have any experience and knowledge about forum…</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.proboards.com%5DProBoards%5B/url”>www.proboards.com]ProBoards[/url</a>] is a good free forum hosting thingamabob you can use, it has a lot of options etc.</p>
<p>Make sure you advertise your forum (in an appropriate place!), otherwise no one will come to it…</p>
<p>You can also download a forum software and host it yourself. Or you could code your own.</p>
<p>there’s plenty of free forum stuff out there with advertising etc.</p>
<p>if you’re willing to pay a little money you can host your own and customize it a lot more…pm me if you’re interested in taking that route…</p>
<p>Besides Proboards there’s also Invisionfree. However, I have friends who tried starting their own forums and quit after a couple of weeks because it was inactive and nobody was joining. Make sure you’ll have a membership base, too.</p>
<p>Yeah I’d definitely recommend invisionfree over proboards. Establish a good reputation at other forums and you’ll have an easier time of getting a base.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t suggest a free forum. They are pretty much terrible. Just invest a little (less than $10 a month) and the payoff is great.</p>
<p>-buy a domain - ~$8/year
-buy hosting - as low as $3/month to start out
-install forum software such as phpbb - free, may be included with hosting (that’s a good idea)
-set up forum
-advertise
-build user base
-set up advertising (only do this when/if you need to, for instance when traffic forces you to upgrade hosting.)</p>
<p>d4rh3v1l you are saying what I exactly want, but my problem is I don’t have any experience about the process you mentioned below.</p>
<p>Maybe you should familiarize yourself with the web site process before you start paying monthly fees for something you don’t know how to use.</p>