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Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

a) I think there should be flash movie demo's of specific items in actions... ideally, this would be part of the vbulletin installation and (by querying teh database) it can pull in the sites themes and colors. Even a demo using the default theme would be 10x better.

b) The FAQ should be replaced by a wiki where users and moderators can add content to it. The current FAQ system is difficult to add to and there is no easy way of linking to specific faq entries/items.

Not sure about flash content, since that always has annoyed me from a usability point of view and design one, but a Wiki would absolutely rule to no end.

The Jelsoft method of FAQ writing appears to be "Write 150 words then stop." And you're lucky if you get that. It's rubbish, really. It annoyed me and I don't think even what's there is that good so I made a context-sensitive help for my forum instead. Something similar has been included in Project Tools but I don't think it's as good as mine although it's identical to how mine started.

Nah, it's more like 'Write up to 150 words in a very ambiguous way that could describe practically any forum created in the last ten years or so, and put it in a place that 99% of people will never actually bother to read. At least unlike some software, it actually has an FAQ.