Thanks for all the info!

But I don't think that 4image and its vB integration are quite what I'm looking for...maybe someone will come up with a mod for the way cgtalk did it.

anyone?

I really don't see what's so special about their hacks... can you post a screenshot? Your account may show something differently from mine...

An account isn't needed to see the functioning of their site (only to post messages).

Do you think you could create a site that functions like theirs? If so, please tell me your charge for the mods. Thanks.

wait for vba gallery to be released :p, in the beta stages atm.

rnmcd,

For the sake of clarity please define what you mean by "integration" with VB? Are you looking to duplicate 100% the look & feel of CGTalk or is there something else that you're trying to accomplish?

I would like to 'nearly' duplicate the look and feel of CGTalk. The only difference I would like is to have a separate gallery-thumbnail page (in other words, an expanded version of the six thumbnails at http://www.cgtalk.com/ where each thumbnail would have a title (and two more fields which would be completed by the person posting the picture).

If a user clicks on the thumbnail it would enlarge the photo.

On both the thumbnail page and the 'enlarged' photo there would be an option to "comment on this photo" link.

If that link is clicked a thread would be created (if one hasn't been created yet) where the user could make comments to the posted picture. If a thread has already been created then the user would be directed/linked to that respective thread.

This thread would be integrated into the respective vB forum (with the thumbnail on the forumdisplay page, see: http://www.cgtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=133

So on the forumdisplay page the thumbnail would be next to the thread title (if a picture was being commented on) otherwise a 'message' icon (see the icon I used for this post) would be visible in the same column that the thumbnails are in.

Of course I would pay for this mod.