HOW TO CREATE A WEBSITE FORUM?

[howren]

I want to help my niece to create a website forum.

Does anyone know how it is done?

It looks easy, in terms of what parts are to be have, and what processes need to be done.

But, we don't know about how to create the real-time effect of having a post automatically listed upon send and refreshed. Are they all a series of items stored and updated on a database, and the page simply
retrieves them? Hmm, seems complicated.

Anyone?

[Spectur]

do like i did and use a free forums server .. I use http://www.proboards.com

and just put a link to your forums area on your page.

Hope this helps..