Webnauts Net Discussion Forums would appreciate Review

[Webnauts]

Please have a look at our new forums, and take some minutes to to tell us what you like and what you don't: http://forums.webnauts.net

Please notice that we are working hard and permanently in optimizing it for its markup, SEO, usability and above all, its accessibility.

Thanks a lot in advance, for supporting us to shape our forums.

John for the Webnauts Net Team.

[Allen]

John - looks nice - in ff it centers, in ie it left aligns

also - how come you dont make a link color? wouldnt accessibility say make the links stand out?

help me understand

thanks
allen

[curtiss]

I love the color scheme. Orange and Blue have always gone nicely together, IMHO. What's happened to the wheelchair logo?

A few suggestions - lower the font size of the "Super Administrator, Administrators..." text near the bottom by two px or so.
Divide your boards into a few categories (or, even better, consolidate some of your boards - I'll explain in a minute).
Open the boards up to guests. With the scope of your forums (helping people out), you really ought to open the boards up to guests. In many cases, you'll find that people will stop in just to ask a single question, they'll get their answer, and they'll never come back. From an administrator's point of view, it's easier to deal with the occasional pointless guest post than it is to deal with scores of dead accounts.

Explanation of Why You Should Have Fewer Boards
When forums are first opened, it is usually very tempting to create a different board for each little niche you hope to fill. As time goes on, though, the admins tend to begin to realize that all of those boards can be daunting for new users. Rather than making it easier for visitors to post in the proper places, they become confused very easily, and end up posting in the wrong places any way. In addition, the more boards you have, the emptier your forums will look. If you have too many boards and not enough users, your boards will always look like a ghost town.

[Webnauts]

How do you like it now?

[curtiss]

Very, very nice.

Great work on re-doing the boards. There isn't really anything else I can suggest to make them better (except switching software - but that's a personal issue for me). They look fantastic.

[Webnauts]

Thanks for the review Curtiss. We were willing to change to punBB, but the database conversion did not work.