I need a programmer who can create a forum on my pre-exisiting website SeeThefeelings The forum should allow user to create user names and passwords, if a member of the site has forgotten their user name and/or password they can simply enter there email address and be notified via email. I should have the ability to delete inappropriate threads and members who are not following the terms of use. I want the forum to be a part of my site, following the same layout and menu bar, I do not want a third party forum or something that takes users to another page. I can supply you with the psd file and/or html file.

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Why don't you take one of the exisiting forums?

yup, exactly! as mtishetsky said. Get one for free and then you have a better chance to find someone to tweak it to match your design. It won't be a big deal. ;-)

Just download existing forum scripts that are very written. You can customize and modify from there onwards

Personally, I recommend SMF (simplemachines.org). Great forum software, free, and very VERY customizable. One of my sites has it integrated inside a site-wide header/nav column/footer. Just took a little tweaking to match the colours and such.

phpBB is another popular free forum. (phpbb.com) I always found it much harder to integrate into an existing site without a lot of mods and hacking, but admittedly I haven't tried site integration with phpbb 3.x.x, only the older 2.x series a number of years ago. I've been using SMF since then.

Yup www.simplemachines.org and phpbb.com are your best free options. If you want to pay a few hundred bucks (or find it illegaly) you can use IPB or VBulliten. I personally recommend phpbb as the free option. It's much more standardized and used than SMF (Simple Machines Forums). So you can find mods for it much easier (to customize and add things to your forum so it's just the way you want). IPB (Inivision Power Boward from IPS) is the best paid option because it is the most standard, customizable, and powerful forum system available.