impietydesires wrote in php

new :)

Hello, I'm new and have a few questions.

I'm looking to start a webpage that has a message board attached to it. As far as the webpage goes I kinda have the basic feel for how to do it, I'll be using dreamweaver, and Imageready. I've also already bought my domain name.

This is where I get lost. I haven't yet bought my webhosting yet because of the fact that I want to put in a message board. I've been looking around at many different ones and I think that I want to use phpbb because from the way it looks, it's a free service.

I looked in the requirements and I'm completely lost.
Here is a post with by another newbie on the phpbb message board:
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=244301

Someone posted back with the requirements, but I'm still confused.

Would someone mind explaining this to me? I'm pretty quick at learning this type of stuff but i need that first walkthrough.

Also, am I going to need any kind of requirements for my computer?
Thanks so much!