Best way to develop an out of office messge board on hmoe page Intranet

[Zero20two]

I am a new php programmer. I am running Sharepoint services for my Intranet but I am designing a new Intranet site. The main function is a message board on our home page that people can post on. Here are the needed fields and functions:

 

Name

Subject

Message

Date the message expires - Auto delete itself.

 

When someone adds a message, it needs to look nice and not take up much space. Is there something already out there or can someone point ,me in the right direction? I have looked at bulliten board software and message board software but that is not helpful. Something that uses XML might be nice... THanks!

[laffin]

ya mean something along the lines of a shoutbox or news box, just scrolls messages in a small box.

 

News Scroller