I have no idea what I'm doing, I took one semester of web programming and I'm decent in Visual Basic. I'm a quick learner, the guild leader wants a forum and front page to post guild achievements/recruitment info. Lead me friends, if you were me - with no prior knowledge, what's step one? I need something I can follow.

Step 1 is to stop playing WoW.

Step 2 is to get some pre-built theme and plugin for WordPress. Shouldn't be hard to find something that does forums and looks pretty good, and you need basically no knowledge or skills beyond general computer proficiency and a bit of googling. Check out bbPress.

Step 3 is to choose a webhost, buy some cheap package, and install WordPress (some webhosts can do this with a single click for you).

Step 4 is to install and configure the theme and plugin you chose in Step 2.

None of the steps should require any actual coding, it will most likely be all completely GUI-driven. It will result in a decent-looking and working website. Webhosting will run you something like $10/month, give or take. Everything else should be free.

This post was edited by russian on Jul 27 2016 04:15pm

I went with godaddy, we paid for a year of hosting. I'm going to check out Wordpress and see if GoDaddy will allow me to upload it.

can you just create a FB page?

No, sorry.

use wordpress?

All depends on what you want your website to do.... But if it is fairly simple then these guys are right about avoiding coding and just using WordPress.