Question Please suggest a tool to use with this kind of website (forum or cms)

Hello,

I am starting a new educational based website.

Contents are videos, audios, .PDFs, educational encyclopedias software.

We are the one who will create all these contents.

We will upload some of them to our server and will upload others to free mirrors to save some traffics and some space.

I do not find a coder around me and I do not know much about coding.

I do understand that Drupal sound a good option but I do not know coding so I will stuck at the middle of the road.

Now I am thinking about using a based forum software and make it in categories and forums and sub forums and then add articles.

- Main Category
-- Main Forum
--- SubForum
---- Threads ====> where I can add articles or new contents.
contents will be videos, audios, ebooks, encyclopedias software
and will set the articles to be displayed according names or date of posting and will make the titles formatted in a way that will help sorting threads easily.

And make members joining are limited or disable it or allow it, still do not know.

So please advise, can I do so!?

Also does using the new versions of IPB or new VB may be in help or not?

Also does it differ to go with free forum software like phpBB ?

I do not have any personal or special preferences.

Thanks and much appreciated

I am thinking from the long term stability point of view.

 

you can also check XenForo forum script.

Drupal has also inbuilt forum. You can try Drupal on your local computer to check if it meets your requirement.