Creating a website/forum

[Megahurtz400]

Hey all,

I’m looking to create a website/blog/forum for a certain niche (not pc related, don’t worry mods! ), and not having done anything similar (apart from creating a pretty successful Shopify store for work) since I was about 15 years old, I’m a little bit lost!

I’ve purchased a few domains, am I right in thinking the next step is getting a webhost and installed a “forum software” like phpbb or similar onto said website and linking the domain?

I slowly working my way through Codecademys web development course, but can remember installing a forum on a webhost many many years ago without any real knowledge but my brain is slowly than it was 15 years ago

Any advice or links to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated

 

[Megahurtz400]

Cheers for the replies guys, i'll have a look

Forums are pretty much dead though, are you sure you want to?

This niche is extremely community driven and always comes with loads of questions and I just can't find a forum related to it anywhere, most of the info is in youtube or forum posts which just tend to be a nightmare to search/locate and useful information.

I'm only really doing it for fun so if it doesn't take off it doesn't matter too much