creating a website-i need help!

[anilratanpal]

hey guys i m making a website,n i want 2 hv a msg board/ blogs in it,so i was hoping if some1 could temme of any such software available for free on net?!!

[fo3nix]

Just one blog, or many?

Try Wordpress:
http://www.wordpress.org

They also make some decent forums that integrate with Wordpress quite well:
http://bbpress.org/

Also, make sure you setup the Akismet spam filtering which is a plugin included.

[anilratanpal]

thanx buddy! i appreciate.

[anilratanpal]

i m planning to have many blogs, covering a number of topics.

[Lucy Thomas]

I hope someone else is writing the content on your site.

[fo3nix]

If it's just you, then Wordpress standard will do for you.

If you want many people to contribute and write their own blogs, then get Wordpress MU (Multi-User).

MU is newer and less stable, so you may have more issues with this.

(There is also a plugin for wordpress to make wordpress and bbpress share the same user data, so people only have to register once for forums and blog comments etc.)

[anilratanpal]

hey lucy! i dont' know what u r trying to say. Would u care to clarify. fo3nix, u have been a great help. Thanx buddy. I would like to address this question specifically to fo3nix: I would liket to test blogging on my pc first before transferring it to web server. However, I understand that wordpress can be downloaded directly to a webserver and not on an offline server. Is that true? If yes, then is there any other service which i can try offline. In answer to your query, many people would be contributing.

thankx in anticipation