I will start my first serious website, DireDream-Media.com I want it to be a website recourse website with free templates, logo's etc. The files will be available for download for free, but only for registered users. Since I'm quite new to this webworld I'll need some help. Is there some kind of CMS for this? Help will be appreciated, Edwin Neef.
Everybody and there grandmother has a free template site, you will need to make it something special for it to be able to stand out of the crowd. I have three free template sites myself and a bunch more template related domains, the adsense is not that great, but I do not do much promotion of the sites. If you plan to use templates that are found on other sites people might not register for something that that they can get without registering elsewhere. You can also take a look at what some of the top free template sites are doing to get a better idea of what you whant to do with your site. Good luck.
Maybe Drupal can be your best friend in this. For the forum, I'd say go with Vbulletin. Link them both using vbulletin plugin called vbdrupal. good luck!