Many people would like to include forums on their blog. Wordpress has several plugins available but its commonly believed that bulletin board type discussions forums can not be integrated into a blogger blog. This is incorrect.
Blogger likes widgets and there are several widget based forums available like Nabble and Bravenet. What is required is to create a space on your blog for the widget to run.
Here's how to do that:
1. Create a static page using Greenlava's instructions:
http://bloggersentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/creating-static-pages-in-blogger.html
The hack on the Blogger Sentral website is by far the best Pages hack for blogger. It hides the sidebars and creates a large post box to drop a widget into.
2. Go to a widget based forum site ( I used www.nabble.com) and setup your forums. Copy the embedded code.
3. Go to Blogger and start a new post. Past code into the HTML box. Then add the static label to convert the post into a page and save.
4. View to make sure it works OK , then link to the page from your home page. Its done! See my website for an example:
http://www.discoveryenterprise.blogspot.com/
If you have any question feel free to post a comment.
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