I am really new to this and would really appreciate some insight on the whole process. I would like to start a online forum for depressed people seeking help. I bought the domain depressionsociety.com. Are there pre made forum interfaces which takes away all the effort or do I have to hire a developer and develop everything from scratch? I want a modern and minimal look. To be honest I am not a big fan of how banglagamer looks.
After I have built the site, how do I get the users to make new threads and post since the user base will be very little?
And lastly how much is it possible to earn on average from banner ads assuming the site has around 4k daily visitors.
I would really appreciate if the administrators of banglagamer gave some details about their experience.