CrankshaftCoalition.com
 

<a href="http://www.crankshaftcoalition.com" target="_blank">Crankshaft Coalition</a>

This is a new community for leaders of automotive forums. It was formed by Hotrodders.com after the forced takedown of an Australian automotive forum.

CrankshaftCoalition.com includes basic legal information for automotive forum administrators, as well as group software development projects, and ideas for collaborative methods of gathering and distributing shared automotive knowledge. It was formed under the guidance of several online free speech organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Free Expression Policy Project. It's hosted on a specialty free speech webhost based in San Francisco, CA.

I'd be interested in any and all feedback -- it's been nearly 5 years since I started a new forum! Please let me know what you think.

nice site i joined up
u need a new style i think tho

Everything seems dulled down....... Very plain......

I feel like I should take my shoes off before I post.

Thanks for the quick input.

Yes, it's designed to look very "professional" (that's pronounced "plain") :). I've been designing black-background underground-ish sites for a while, even having a white background looks odd to me. We should be able to do something to make a compromise between a professional look and something that's visually more appealing. Let me know what kind of colors or styles you'd like to see.

just get a free style from www.vbulletintemplates.com

Thanks Thug -- I've heard of that site, but I've never put in the time to check out all the different available templates. If there's something in a clean-white-lame-professional look, I'll try it out.

or use firemant
or air style

Its not always about the colors. I would use images for a background. Maybe mess with the padding a tad to give it a 3d look. I would also get rid of the default status icons.

Thanks corriewf -- however, I might actually even remove some of the graphics and replace them with simple text links. I'm also trying to keep the page load times as low as possible.

Are you serious? What images?