If you know to install some security hacks and follow the updates you're safe with phpBB. Saying a script is more secure than the other is debatable. My latest hacks were targeting the entire server....

Have a clean code (as clean as you can), alt tags for images and titles for links. In 2-3 days Google should see you. I have clients with sites I am still working on and they appear already in...

Quality is your main friend: good design, unique content and a lot of work. Promote with links in signature and post good messages, not spam. make some exchanges, put the link in free to add...

Good simple design. Not too many things to crowd it, sleek graphics. It's a nice site.

Don't use too many font- styles. Use verdana for the main content (works great on small sizes too) and another font in headers if you like (Georgia seems to look pretty nice). Don't center the main...

Nice colours and layout. Love the design. I think this is how a portfolio needs to look like :)

It still needs a lot of work since it's just started. But it looks nice. can't wait to see it finished. Keep us posted on the development

Absolutely great looking. Very nice design, modern layouting, good effects. Kudos for a great design. Best of luck with the site :)

Use some padding (some elements are too close to the page margins), don't use times new roman as font at all and look some more on those images .. some are pixelated. :)

I smell the use of a template or at least some discarded pieces from it. You have some images with a weird margin or misalignment in the layout. You need to work a bit more on these details,...

Simple layout and pleasant colours. I think it's more than OK :)

First you can use a free script. I used it for 2 years almost and don't regret it. having to mod phpBB and create themes for it made me very relaxed with scripts. Now I can create a unique layout for...

The site won't open for me .. maybe it's my connection (again). Don't worry .. it's a good number for a first month. Keep on promoting, add new topics and it's gonna be OK

My best in SEO terms is a PHPBB forum. Was never able to make IPB or VB work from this point of view. I also have some bad SEO-d phpBBBs and myBBs .. in the end I think it's more our fault ...

I have used most of the known scripts and believe that all have ups and downs. For the paid script I'd go with IPB next time, I had only huge issues with VB, the only forum script that never worked...

You are using a stock theme, you could work more on customizing it. Change some colours and images so that it would look unique. Best of luck with the site :)

I don't think paid membership would work unless the forum does provide something unique and it's very developed. Stick with free and have ads ;)

I wouldn't advice to have the host install it automaticaly. The scripts they have in cpanel are always outdated. Get your hands on the latest release of the script you want to install and do it...

I never used this and I don't have to complain about quality of the posts. Quality in posting is done with personal example from the staff and admin. When people see we don't post spammy one liners...

Out of the box phpBB is the worst. Still it can be tweaked so nicely ...

As an update; I have a VB license now. for my webmaster community. It does have many features, but I almost cried when had...

Well, a community is made by more people, not just you. It's true that you NEED to post new threads on a daily basis. Even if no one replies at first THEY WILL eventually. Start some post exchanges....

I just looked at getvanilla ... I cannot use it at all. I had a forum I used to post at and now it's on vanilla and not on phpBB anymore. When I saw this awkward script (it's not as all the others we...

well, as an update, my forums have now member email activation. Makes some of them angry, but getting a lot of mail.ru and cashette.com spammers really made me change my mind :D

Well, I have to tell you that it can destroy it all. I closed a forum for this already, so now I'm not that relaxed when things heat up. And even if the members sometimes like some "blood", a war...

Well, I had a month of Adwords going on. Not a lot of visits, but it did get some traffic. I have posted a lot and had some new members join. They are posting too, and it seems we're starting to have...

Just keep on posting. I have set myself a table with my new topics plans for the 6 forums I run. I made it a rule for myself to try to come with 5 new topics a day (if the forums are not that active...

I have less and less respect for these. They were the hype once, but just seeing that ugly button or table in my projects makes me think again about it.

I have written some articles and posted them. Then I realised I'm wasing my unique content and put it in the sites that are reprinting same articles again and again. I got few visits this way and...

Computers are my life, so that I don't say that I don't have a life :D

There are some crimes that would "justify" this in my opinion. There are certain people who just don't deserve to live since they're a perpetual menace to society

My all time obsession would be Morrowind. Loved this game and I still play it from time to time

The skin looks very nice. The forums are empty now, so maybe you should have made less categories till you get some more activity. I am not a fan of portal pages, maybe it was better to have the...

Don't know about the invisionfree stuff, but I think it's not allowing you FTP access (or does it?). You can go with phpBB and not have an issue (I am running 4 phpBB forums and I love them all), but...

I am using now Adwords. I will be able to tell more about it in few days, since I have just started.

Well, an update.

I got myself an ADWORDS ACCOUNT ... woohoo ...

Well, I have a Visa Electron card for my salary. Got to the bank today and placed the adsense check I got from google (150 USD,...

In most of my forums guests have no access to the profiles. It's in the end a question of security. I am now in the position I don't like being part of a forum that lets guests see my email address...

Well, I am seeing a plus in the posting. Had 2-3 youngsters who liked to post something like "me too" and still posted a lot. Deleting all those messages and telling them yet again they should make...

This is also a good argument. My communities catter to people all over the world too. I am from Romania, I got members from China, USA, Canada, India, I doubt we could have a consensus as politics...

Good info ...

The only forum I own and I don't post that much is my Romanian MA forum. I have some very dedicated members who are also instructors, so I just keep the board running. When opening...

You need to work a bit more at the colour scheme. I would use orange instead of red for instance. The text in the logo has a font that's not related to the topic. You need something more "square" and...