Designing a Forum

[Hooman]

Hello,

What's a good source of information on designing a Forum, like the one we are using here.
At my work they are starting to think about putting a Forum on their website, for the co-workers to go there and post questions for each other, and discuss different concerns.
I am wondering if this is a really big task to take or not.
I know HTML/Java Script/ASP, will I be able to do it.
What's a good source of information to read more about it.

Thanks for the comments.

[AdamGundry]

It'd have to be server-side, and would be a lot of work if you wanted a threaded forum (like this one). Why reinvent the wheel? There are plenty of forum scripts prewritten, such as http://www.vbulletin.com/, which this forum uses.

Adam

[Hooman]

Thanks for the comment, It's a good idea, although I didn't really want to make it very nice looking and professional. Just a simple interface, for few users... I thought I might be able to do it myself. But thanks a lot.

[PeOfEo]

I made one with asp.net but its a lot of work if you do not know a server side language... I suggest going to phpbb.com

[missp]

An easy to install/customize (and free) forum script is at http://www.teemz.com

[Hooman]

This should be really helpful, thank you very much

[pyro]

Here are links to a few more (all PHP):

http://www.xmbforum.com/
http://www.invisionboard.com/
http://www.phpbb.com/
http://www.yabbse.org/