Looking To Start A Forum/gallery Any Tips

I am looking at starting a forum and image gllery focused around tattoo art, piercings and their history. I am looking for some advice as to what software to look into using, what kind of forum to use (and where to find code for it), and also what kind of software to use to create an online gallery. Also I am looking into what kind of work to include on my site, ie. flash, tribal, b&W, etc. I'm not very proficent with coding, though it is something that i could learn, are there any good visually based programs, I am a pretty good graphic designer, so that would be preferable. I also have Flash MX and am learning to work with that, if you have any ideas for a catchy intro please include that. Any advice and helpful knowledge will be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the help people! Look forward to hearing back from you.

If you don't knwo any language like php asp or perl(html isn't enough and isn't a language) I suggest to use PhP nuke or any engine like this(Post-Nuke or a Blog engine)But the Nuke aren't very secure so it's better to learn a language and write some codes....

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sphpblog/ (Php blog that doesn't need Database)

https://www.phpnuke.org/ (The most famouse website engine)

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (A less famouse nuke)

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i like your site, what did you use to build it?

This is what I have so far, needs a lot of work.

depending on what kind of functionality you want for youre page
you should maby use a databasedriven site , like mentioned
only I would not use phpnuke( of personal reasons )

but there's a lot of packages like it
(i've been looking closer at
mamboserver.com
spip.net
xoops.org
and others)

But if you are into visual edit of webpages
then keep on doing flash.
things are happening right now
regarding flash and database/php

what you got so far look fine,
only it is not that much jet

....of work to include on my site, ie. flash, tribal, b&W, etc......