i agree with lyon, phpbb is the most simple forum to begin.i don't understand php, so i beleave if you want to learnh, learn from the phpbb forum(look at the source code and see how he works). well that's what i'm doing plus i'm alsow searching for good tutorials at google.com.lyon, what do you mean ask jeeves?
i have started with invisionplus.com and i alsow used invisionfree and proboards.com but now i use phpbb because it's more simple, but when i make websites to enterprises i use ipb.
jesus, so many templates, how did you find those?!thanks for your efor., i have downloaded some templates and most of them are good, but some don't, anyway thank you.