So... what exactly is a verbal douche? Also - you may want to consider at least opening a few forums for guest view. While it may increase initial sign ups, you lose out on search engine indexing (whats the point of vbSEO if you cant be indexed?) and lurkers - which contrary to popular belief - are valuable.
Style wise, I like a thinner forum myself, looks clean - from a general board owner to another, get at least one focus and FOCUS ON IT. I am still struggling to find that focus within my forums - and that is why I suffer, even with a moderate amount of monthly hits. With the broad scope of an E/N site, if you don't have at least a small niche area, and porn doesn't cut it any more - you will flare up initially with members, and then fade out.
Delete the "default style" from your selector and make sure you put the welcome headers on each skin you have.
Also a personal observation, I used to have 6 skins, I found that with the amount of work I was putting into the site, I was doing 6 times the work as I had to edit each style most of the time. I removed all styles and stuck with one that I liked best. It has been the best decision I have made to date.
05-08-2007, 08:33 PM
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