[Shelley_c]

Definitely to defaultish and visually not appealing at all. The logo is about the only thing that will draw anyones attention and even this can do with a little work like lowering the opacity of the drop shadow and changing the angle to 90 degrees. The blue colouring for the inner shadow could do with the opacity lowered also.

Overall the logo looks nice but with a little tweaking could look a little better.

The threadmarkers (for me) look too phpbb-ish? Nice idea but I would design something that doesn't look like icons that fell off the phpbb truck.

I've noticed your using a mixture of custom buttons and stock vbulletin buttons which for me personally is a bad choice. Either use one or the other and I would recommended that you opt for custom buttons rather than vbulletin stock.

Not all is bad, I quite like the forum status icons and they compliment the theme of your board nicely so maybe build on the style by altering the colours and colourizing the gradients based off the nice vibrant colours in your logo. This would take you less than 15 minutes and would give you a visually appealing looking theme.

Smilies. Pile them in there and I would also suggest that you use multi-coloured smilies so it gives off an eye candy feel. This goes for all the icons and images on your forum but first make the colour changes necessary to your style and then build/design the images off the style. :up: