Holiday Cheer on Forums

Seems like Google has made it popular to change the logo of a website for holidays. 
My question is how many of y’all do the same, and more importantly do your members like it? 
Over on my photography forum I switched out the default logo with a winter themed one for Christmas.  It’s scheduled to [...]

How important is design to the success of a forum?

How important do you think design is to the success of a forum?  It’s an extremely popular topic on web design forums.  Content or design?  Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum?
I don’t think anyone would argue that a forum can succeed without good content, but how big of a part [...]

Why is middle the default vertical align for a table cell?

A little bit of a rant here. Why do HTML table cells default to vertically centering the text? I have never done a design that it looked right for the cells to be vertically aligned to the middle. It seems that top aligned would be the most commonly used and for those [...]

Inserting AddThis.com widget in Simple Machines Forum

After finding the AddThis.com bookmarking widget and installing the WordPress plugin here I decided I needed to add the widget to my photography forum.
What I wanted to make sure would happen is that if a visitor bookmarks a page they bookmark the first page in the thread instead of bookmarking a later page in a [...]

8 Reasons NOT to start a forum

There are thousands and thousands of web forums out there. My guess is that if you’re reading this you’re at least thinking of starting one if you haven’t already. We hear about the reasons to start a forum (fun, branding, marketing, etc) but it’s difficult to find information on why you shouldn’t start a [...]