Just thought I would add my new forum to the MIX here for your critiquing!!  

http://www.getawayspas.com/forum/Blah.pl

Just finished and plan to link it to my main website tomorrow.

Let me know what you think!

Be honest...LOL I can take it!  

Looks good.  

Oh, I love the theme. Nicely done - the colour scheme is really pretty.


Also, if I can be rude, how did you do the little description box under the forum title? It's one of the few Vb features I grudgingly like, since it lets people who arrive from search engines know what they've stumbled upon.

Glad you both like it! I know I really had to play around with the colors and look but I think it looks very complementing to the theme I am projecting.  

I also changed the font sizes, image and button sizes since I realize allot of people out there might have trouble reading the tiny print or making out small image text. LOL Wait till you all hit 40 and you will know!!!  

As far as the TITLE area, I actually added that by inserting it into my blah template.html

I also inserted in that same template, my own meta-tags, "title tag, keywords and description" as well to increease my chances for search engines to find us. It wasn't already there I noticed.  

Of course thats all part of the game!  

QUESTION ANYONE

I would also like to add google ads, like you have Austin on the top of your forum, in the heading area, but of course have them set to display more relevant information to my site, for example:  spa and health related categories. How would I go about implementing this? Where would I find it? Wasn't sure.

I assume I will be inserting that code into the general blah template as well.  

Also do you feel that inserting GOOGLE ADS into your forum, for those of you already doing this, helps to boost you in the ranking dept or does it just do more for GOOGLE persay?  

Guess thats an honest question  

Hey, nice site. The colors go well.

And the question about google ads, you can get an account at http://www.google.com/adsense . Google basically has a bot that goes around on sites and the bot is designed to get info about your site so it displays relevant advertisements...

And as for it boosting your rank, I AM NOT 100% positive, BUT I don't think so. Though you will get $$$

You don't have to add the Administrator to each board as a Moderator.

LOL..you can tell I am new at this!  

So I should just pic ONE board, like maybe the very first one listed and the rest take it off?  

You don't have to add it to any.

Administrators can moderate anything by default.