I think i will want it to be able to have different templates.

I think i will do a lot of reading on security, at the moment i'm writing my php files and sql files from sample code and hope to build from there.

I've heard of a few of those templates, my knowledge of working with templates is those of Joomla! & PHPBB, and that's just installing them.

As for widget/modules i was thinking of a sidebar similat to Wordpress.

I'm always thinking ahead, but i think i'm quite away from modules and templates, i think just getting my disccussion board looking the way i want it is one of my priorities.

I will be doing some of the frameworks mentioned, i've heard of python as the original bittorrent client is written in that.

I should be grasping what i'm learning soon. But i shall not be rushing.