I am on a MAC and am working with Dreamweaver CS4 and have created (a relaunch of a very old site), about cruising at http://www.prowsedge.com and now I am trying to add a forum to the site, so that visitors can share their opinions.

I bought a product from FELIXONE called PHP FX Easy Forum which is supposed to enable me to do this. But - yeah - you guessed it - nothing works. There are no clear instructions, and installing it to Dreamweaver CS4 seems to only partially be successful. Maybe I am doing something wrong here, but has anyone else had experience of this product, and does anyone here know the best way to go about creating forum pages for a web site.

Maybe there is a better way to approach this.

I am fairly literate in HTML but new to databases. Trust me - I need something fool-proof!

Hope someone can make some good suggestions.

The first time I played with a forum, I used Bravenet.com's forum service. They provide and maintain the code, all I have to do is moderate. The free version is limited, but it was enough to teach me some of the management skills.

There are other forum services available. In addition to the code maintenance, using a forum service doesn't impact your main site's size or bandwidth limitations.