hey anson say i wanna start a website with a forum and a daily blog, how do i go about that? what do i need to design the page and all that good stuff?
Typically the forum and blog software are simply PHP packages. So for example, forums can come in the form of phpBB, SMF, FreeBBS, and blah blah blah. There are dozens of forum types available. What matters is what your platform will be: Apache vs IIS
As for Blogs, same thing. The most popular is WordPress. So assuming you have a website already, just install wordpress. However both of the above software packages require a database to keep track of all the changes. MySQL is the most popular.
Essentially, there's nothing to "design", more like finding the various modules that work together and assembling them to play nice on your server.
