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Fansite Tips Part 2: Fourms and Community management and administration
This section is all about Forums and Management of a community. Fourms are a great part of any website and a great way to start off your website too!. This site, The Simmers Club started as just a small forum but has grown from that into a full scale General Sims website!. Here are some tips and tricks for effective forum and community management I have learned since I started this site.

Forum Basics: Hosting (free hosting)
A good way to start is to use ad supported hosting from one of the many great free forum hosting services Here are some top ones.
Proboards
FreeForums.org (free phpBB2 and phpBB3 hosting)
Invisionfree
Zeta Boards
Create myBB (free myBB hosting)
SMF for free (free SMF forum hosting)


Installing a forum on your website: *requires some basic HTML,php and MySQL knowledge and hosting capable of supporting it (some free, some requires purchase Forum software downloads)
phpBB
myBB
SMF
IPB
vBulletin