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As a professional web designer (www.303artwork.com) I find it a little, hmm, weird that only 100 messages are allowed. I think that limit should be at 500 or 1000. I mean a message is just a few kb and everybody can get unlimited webspace for $5/month meanwhile or do you guys have a very outdated provider for the forum server? Im would offer my help if needed.

Also, that header image doesn't look very inviting. I dont have a lot of time, but I would offer you guys to create a better looking banner for the top of the page. Im hosting forums with 100.000+ members myself and thats the first thing I would change so it looks a little better in quality.

Hit me up if you like the idea.

Greetings Chris

bigbutterbean said:

If you dont agree with the rules, or you dont like the layout of the site, perhaps you should find another forum.

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That stuck up comment is so out of place here. Who are you to tell me what forum Im supposed to use? The truth is it looks cheap because its not a good artwork and I offered my help instead of just saying something bad. I gave my feedback as professional in that area and offered my FREE help to make it look better especially compared to the other forums I know but didn't join, so from where you take the right to talk like that to me?

If you are not the creator of the forum? Im pretty sure no.

You are not the administration so your opinion doesn't matter for me. I don't even read your post to the end after that stupid post before.

paul said:

i appreciate your offer however i am happy with the looks of the forum. when i was in high school they were just inventing calculators so my computer skills are not all that great but i am learning. my grand-kids helped me with the layout and they are really proud of it as i am of them. people are still using dial up. fastest internet available here on st croix is 1 meg. a lot of times i am lucky to get 500kb. that is why the resolution of the banner and other pictures on the main page have been reduced. i found it more important to have a reasonable download time of the forum for everyone visiting then a high quality banner that slows the loading process down. as far as the personal messages if you need more just ask. i only have a hundred and it takes only a second to clean out the ones i do not want to save and i feel 100 is enough

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OK so this is a family project basically and you dont have much of experience with internet and development. Makes more sense now but with some points you are wrong. The banner is 12 kb, so it would be with better design and less compression - a little more but no difference in loading time compared to the rest of the first page alone. I mean, you save on the main banner which is the most important part of the page design wise, but on the other hand you have 21 (!!!!) ad images from which 2 are even flash-media and the size of multiple banners (this one alone is bigger than your banner in size http://motorbicycling.com/images/misc/bbb2.gif), so that really doesn't make any sense your point with the loading time and regarding the banner

But anyways, I just wanted to offer my help. I don't have much time to do such things anyways with my business and surfing but I wanted to give something back to the creator of the forum because I found good help here and even new friends.

When it comes to the messages, 100 is too less as limit and they also take almost no webspace, so I would appreciate to set the limit higher because I already lost contacts and important messages because I had to delete to get new ones. That just takes a minute literally (also running vBulletin). the fact that most people here think 100 is enough, doesnt change the fact that for others its not, and since they dont operate the forum (and even have a bad attitude), honestly their opinion dont matter for me. This section of the forum is about feedback and this is mine as user and professional web designer.

Thank you for response and greetings to the other island