Read the rules, don't offer a job posting or solicit for help with intent to compensate.
I am pretty sure that there are a lot of users on this forum that wouldn't mind spending less then a few hours just to teach someone new.
That's a bold assumption. I bet that once you start, you'll get hooked, and those "few hours" would turn into many hours. And no-one here has that much time. Most are self-taught, and even if you can't teach yourself from books, it's still possible to pick one up and read it.
I don't learn things when I read...I learn more when someone is teaching it to me
How did you make it through school? Not everything is given to you, it's expected that you read most everything. But that's a whole other topic.
Forum themes aren't PHP, they're HTML. And you can read tutorials on them at whatever software site you decide to use (phpbb, SMF, invision, vBulletin).
The "codes" you speak of, you can read in the manual or any online tutorial. For someone to teach you, you'd have to be lucky enough to live within traveling distance of someone on this forum (highly unlikely) and also have them agree to spend some of their time with you to teach you. And that payment can get pretty steep if you don't understand stuff the first time. Hence why a book would be better (even if you don't learn that way). Plus most books are Read, Do, learn books. So you're not reading, you're reading, following, seeing instant results.
