home page hack help needed

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well anyone can help me with this
creating top 10 posts in home page of the website and forum would be /forum or something.

example: www.rimweb.com home page is having top 10 posts neatly showed up, stats and more information..

also wanted to know does this require big coding to be done ??

thankyou in advance

other then that i wanted to know that will home page work with index.html or it has to be index.php for this mod ?

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mine is index.php.....set up is simple

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chk out rimweb.com im looking for somethg like tht..
i need the codes, how do i set it up ?