I currently am building a website on automotive modifications and am wondering how I can create an area for members and a forum, so far the website has been written in html, and I'm new at all of this and wondering where to start.

Hi, ILgreasemonkey!

There is information on the following site that might be helpful to you. I hope that it is helpful.

How to Create a Forum With HTML | eHow.com

There is enough information there, that I don't think my copying and pasting anything would be warranted here.

Thanks!

If you want it as easy as possible, you can add something like Forumotion to your site under a subdomain. It is actually hosted remotely, but they let you set up a CNAME to their servers so it looks just like part of your site.

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