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Drawing from other boards...<br><br>Make a new skin, preferably something that rises above all grey. Blue theme preferably, since IPB buttons seem predominantly blue.<br><br>Many avatars cannot be uploaded, for some reason.<br><br>Remove the hyperlinks underlines at the table at the top. They look weird, especially with the table there as well. <br><br>Probably a personal preference, but this site - <a href='http://www.mystcommunity.com' target='_blank'>MystCommunity.com</a> - which uses IPB as well, seems to have a better color theme. <br><br>Make more people moderators and admins as numbers go up.<br><br>Hmm... any more ideas? (No, I'm not trying to take over this board. These are just <i>suggestions</i> - take them as you will.

"Make a new skin, preferably something that rises above all grey. Blue theme preferably, since IPB buttons seem predominantly blue."<br><br>Okay. I'll see about getting the default theme (which is what that MystCommunity.com site is using) back. Although this'll be the default.<br><br><br>"Many avatars cannot be uploaded, for some reason."<br><br>No avatars can be uploaded, and I have no idea why. I'm trying my best to fix the problem though. I should also make some sort of announcement about this, a lot of people are telling me about it.<br><br><br>"Remove the hyperlinks underlines at the table at the top. They look weird, especially with the table there as well."<br><br>I've tried, and I'll try again, but It's something to do with the CSS of the board header and my header clashing. I don't know.<br><br><br>Thanks for all your suggestions, great to know people are helping me make this a better place for you all.

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I have a suggestion...how about a forum for questions for the admin/moderator? Maybe you already have that and I haven't looked deep enough yet (I just became a member today), but I have a couple of questions and don't know where to ask them. <br><br>Here's my questions:<br><br>1) Is DC Simpson a part of this group, and if so what is the screen name he goes by?<br><br>2) What is the home city/state/country of this site? I live in Colorado (USA), and I noticed that the times on the right side of the posts always seem to be early morning when it is night here. I suppose I could look at the time difference and figure out what part of the world this site started, but that would be too much work. Much easier just to ask.<br><br>

1. Not that a know of, but he promised he'd drop in from time to time.<br><br>2. I live in Australia on the east coast.

(Speaking of MYSTcommunity... I hail from there, among other places <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> *waves to dnwq*)<br><br>A couple of helpful things for you to possibly solve your problems, spoken from many moons of IPB experience:<br><br>1) As far as the underlined links go, there's a style declaration in the CSSthat defines global hypertext appearance... if you remove the "text-decoration: underline" bit it'll remove the underlines from pretty much all links on the board. If you just want to de-underline the banner links, you could create a new declaration set (say... a:link.nolines and the accompanying :active, :hover, and :visited declarations) with the style attribute "text-decoration: none", and then set your links in the banner to be <a href='linkhere' class='nolines'> <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->.<br><br>2) Upload problems... only thing I can think of is that the board can't write to the uploads directory... make sure it's CHMODed to 777.<br><br>3) As far as skins go, I think adding a few more shades of gray to this gray scheme would help a lot, it's just a tad on the "too uniform" side. And as you said, there's always the possibility of allowing the IPB default skin as an option <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->.<br><br>tree, there's an option in your control panel which I don't know if you've located yet, which allows you to set your own timezone. If it's still whacked after you do that, then there be problems <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->.<br><br>All that tech stuff aside, you've got a nice site here, 5hfifty. Great start, hope it catches on <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->.

!!! Of COURSE! Man, I forgot to CHMOD! Augh. Sorry everyone. Problem solved!<br><br>Thank you Alahmnat! I'll fix the other things when I can. Thanks.