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Agreed.

I have a few forums, each is very unique and deals with the theme of the site.

www.stusplace.co.uk is my kinda general forum. I ran a forum at the same address for ages which was very similar to NTHW (.com at the time) which just never got used. I changed things around a fewtimes and eventualy came up with something that offers things to potential members.

www.sesforum.co.uk is a forum I set up for my on-line gameing clan, the South East Smugglers. We play Bf1942 and needed somewhere to keep in touch.

www.seslan.co.uk I set up as a spin off from the sesforum. We started arranging LAN partys and managed to get sponsership from Abit, DFI-Lan party, AMD and a few others. We were using part of the sesforum for LANS but once we could offer prizes like the new PCIE Radion RX600 and an AN7 NForce2 MoBo, we decided it was time to devote a site.

www.afghancombat.co.uk is dedicated to a mod I am writing for BF1942.

www.mapediting.co.uk is not in use at the moment... I set it up a while ago and offered help to people making their own BF1942 maps. After a few months, myself and a couple of members decided to do AfghanCombat. Trouble is, we just didn't have the time for both, so I closed MapEditing.
I will re-launch it after AfghanCombat is complete.


If you take a look at those links, you will see that the busyest forums arn't necesarily the ones which offer the most content.
For a forum to be popular, you need lots of members. To get lots of members, you need a popular forum.
Looks a bit catch22 at first doesn't it!
It's not realy, you just need to offer something to encourage people to sign up.

Look at your target audiance.
If you want people who are registered here to come register at your forum, there's no point in offering ANYTHINg which is already here. You need to look at what you feel is missing from here and work on that.

HTH

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Well i thought i would post my site...well a message board

http://gaming.forumat.com/

If you would like to register go ahead

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I have been working on a website for a mate. Let me know what you think http://www.thefirepot.com

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I am not sure I have posted here but my clubs website is:

www.woskf.co.uk

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don't like 'flash' intro's - sorry, even if you have a skip link ;)

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not a problem, what about the site itself?

Re: Free domain names
 

Whats with all the green arrows in the front end layout? Looks a bit ugly in my opinion but others may like it.

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Dunno if any of you have heard/seen it before.. probably not.. but my website is:

www.oinkyboinky.co.uk
It's just a lil site i've made... got all kinda of stuff, games, animations, forums, gallery guestbook etc.. the usual kinda stuff... The Forums are currently in a bit of a deadspell... The most popular section at the mo seems to be the gallery.. but the hits in the games section n stuff is starting to pick up...

Check it out... hope ya enjoy...

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I did 'enjoy' :)

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Hope someone (anyone?) is vaguely impressed with this.....www.russelldavid.com

And here comes the standard disclaimer...

"It's not quite finished yet...."

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http://www.loonyradio.co.uk website for an Online Radio station I help run, we broadcast now and again, there is no set schedule but someone usually comes on once a day for a few hours when we have time. I spent ages coding the PHP for this site and I think i've ironed all of the bugs out, when a DJ is signed in, you can request tracks from their track listing on their profile. Im quite pleased with it :)

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Despite the fact that (in your own words)


I like the look and feel of your site. Nice and simple, not too offensive to the eyes, and you've resisted the temptation to ramble on and on and on and on and on............

Nice one :tu:

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Hey at least I'm honest about it..... :D

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You're Russell David!?

I'm sure you'll know Craig Williams then?

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Erm......is he at The Wave? PM me if you like.