Looking for recommendations: Free Forum Software/Hosting

[FulciLives]

Hello

A friend of mine has a YAHOO GROUP thing and it is up to around 100 members and it seems that they are outgrowing the rather simple design offered by YAHOO GROUPS and he wants to look into alternatives.

So I'm asking the videohelp.com community to help with suggestions and recommendations of free Forum software along with free (or very nearly free) hosting solutions.

My friend is not very computer literate when it comes to computers so it would have to be simple or if not simple at least not too hard or more importantly not too time consuming to work with ... I have a feeling I'll be stuck doing much of the work and my free time is precious to me.

Also he wants to start a blog and I'm no blogger myself so suggestions on software or websites for that? ... something that can be "integrated" into a "whole single website" design perhaps?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[rumplestiltskin]

I was thinking of blogger.com but that only addresses part of your issue.

I use godaddy.com for my site and it's about $4/month. They've been very reliable and quite helpful if I have tech support issues.

[bourboner]

I've used proboards for forums, it does the job nicely I reckon.

I have hosting with Cirtex, they have been very good if you ask me. $4.99/mth for 10GB storage & 250GB monthly bandwidth. You can host other domains on the same account, which is good.

WordPress I think is the blogger's standard, it has all the templates and scripting for multimedia players & stuff like that.