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I would recommend designing your own color scheme, so It'll be more of an original look. Originality is one of the factors of a successful forum. I'd suggest using a custom color scheme, one that is good looking, easy on the eyes, and one that is fitting to the theme of your board. It's a good idea to decide what main color you want to base the color scheme on (blue, green, red, ect.) then use about 3 matching colors or shades through out the entire forum.

For example, if you use blue, make sure everything matches blue in the forum. You may want make the title bar a dark blue or black, then the category bar a lighter blue (Gradients are recommended, but lets worry about the colors before we get into custom graphics). After I've done that, I would make my window bg 1 the same dark blue as you used in your title bar (if you went with dark blue) then I'd make the bg window 2 color the lighter blue you used in the category bar.

Like I said, it doesn't have to be blue, that is just an example of how to make the colors match, and balance them out throughout the forum, keeping a nice variety and a nice balance of the colors.

One thing, which is important, is to have the link colors and text color either different colors, or at least different shades. It is important on any website or forum for the links to stand out from all of the other text and be easily recognizable.

Here is a decent site for hex color reference.

colors.mrfrufru.com/

Here is a template to help you figure out what does what when in the skins page editing your skin colors. www.proboards.com/images/skins-example.gif

You may also want to take a look in the [/url] in the Coding and Designs board for a few codes, and additions you may be interested in using on your forum. For tips on advertising your forum please have a look at this thread. [url=http://support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=promotion&action=display&n=1&thread=1103670087&page=1#1103670087][Avertising your forum][/url] Also there is another thread that is very informative. [url=http://support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=promotion&action=display&n=1&thread=1112088416&page=1#1112088416][Formatting Your ProBoard][/url].

Good luck with your forum.