Best way for a books site?

Question

I have tried everything. Currently i have my site. http://www.books4sale.co.nr and also still working on http://books4sale.atspace.com and im even working on another one.

Basically i want to sell used books. I am now thinking about replacing my site with a forum. This way i can have every book as a topic and links, etc.

Is this a good idea? My main reason for this is because i only know html. Not php. I need quite a bit of pages, and also a contact form or a place for contact.

Would a forum be a good idea?
What other ideas do you have?

Answer 1

I don't understand your goal. Do you want to sell books or do you want to discuss books, or both? It might be a good idea to have a forum to discuss books, with commission links to Amazon.

As far as php, why limit yourself to html? You may need to learn a little php in the future. Just write the html but name the files with .php extension instead of .htm or .html, then you can expand to include some php code as you learn it.