Hi, I've spent a little while making a simple forum which pretty much duplicates the functionality of the Computing.Net forums. It's written using PHP and uses flat files so I doubt you can say it's ultra-efficient or the speediest script on Earth. However, it works well and two people have already implemented it on their sites with help from me: DJ Heaven Forum Cow bags Forum As you can see, it works in the same way as the Computing.Net except it's a bit simpler mainly due to not having users (i.e. anyone can be anonymous). As I said before, it stores each thread and post in a seperate file but I think it's quite fast. As far as I know, it can also have unlimited replies which isn't anything special it's just I was worried for some reason that it couldn't. Anyway, whad'ya think? Thanks, James

Once again youve proven you have some nifty skills in PHP however, you have also proven that, like most programmers, you score 0 for colour schemes etc Well Done though Jaymc.co.nr

actually the DJ one is sorta ok, the cow bags one is a pure cow for colour Pink!!!!! Jaymc.co.nr

Thanks for the compliment. I can choose good colour schemes when I want to but both of those forums I was told exactly how they should look. The DJ Heaven one was based loosely around this site: www.freewebs.com/djecko/ In fact, my design I think is easier on the eyes than freewebs template. The Cowbags forum was again, asked to be based on their site, which is www.cowbags.co.uk. If you look at both, you can see that I've done a pretty good job at copying the schemes on both of them. If you were to have one of these, what exactly would yours look like? James

i chose 1 colour id then chose 3 different shades of the colour 1 dark 1 medium 1 light dark = font medium = headers light = background Jaymc.co.nr

heres an example http://www.hackerthreads.org/phpbb/ Jaymc.co.nr

Um... that example didn't follow what you said. It has a black background and you said it would be the light colour for the background. The header and font colours don't vary much and are just about the same greys. But I know what you mean, though. Maybe kinda like this? www.james-greenwood.co.uk/mysite/ James