A category is fine.
What you may want for the forum is select custom inserts.
Turn on forum introduction.
Enter links to the articles in Forum Introduction Body
Then you could just copy the entry to a custom island to be redundant when viewing other forums.
Just a thought.
The hml part everyone will warn you not to but you could create a group for html use. Then assign that group html permission to the forum you want.. Then add your selected members to that group.
