As much as I love a good forum, and considering that forums come right in the base Drupal install, it is very odd that I hadn't added a forum to DrupNewb until now.

I guess you could say that with the existance of the forums on the main Drupal site (http://drupal.org/forum) the world doesn't really need another Drupal forum, and you would be correct.

Still, a good Drupal learning site does need a forum, so there you have it.

It is very easy to add a forum. Start at Home » Administer » Content management, and add a "container". This is a bigger overall grouping for your forum. My container is "Drupal Forum". If I ever wanted to set up anther forum on DrupNewb for say cats, that would get it's own container.

On the same page, Home » Administer » Content management, I then added a forum for "Drupal Upgrades". This is a more specific grouping within a container.

I then went to Home » Forums, selected my new forum, and added a topic. My first topic, under Drupal Upgrades, was upgrading from Drupal 5 to 6. A topic is one discussion.

Finally I activated forums on Drupnewb by going to Home » Administer » Site building, and enabled forums. Until you do this your forum won't show in your side menus.