If your going to use a forum set up, look into vbulliten, its pretty cheap, but its a php/mysql based program, so you will need to make sure your hosting server is set up for that.

On the same token, if your looking at using something like a blog set up, I would suggest looking at a program called wordpress, also a php/mysql base.

I am currently using both, so if you have questions hit me up.

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