as a newbie here, first impressions... love the layout, makes a fresh change from the standard style forums, but may you may want to have links open up in a new frame, to save you bleeding hard earned traffic.
I'm a fan of the preview button, you start editing, get sidetracked for 5 mins, comeback, and forgotten the name of the person you were replying to, or what it was they said :)
Like the fact I can have a web link in my signature from first post, a lot of forums you need to "earn" your link, which can keep down spammers. Some of the sig's seem quite big though, makes following a large thread a little bit harder.
Spotted a couple of people from the UK biz forum, (hi Kev) so looking forward to some entertaining threads...
cheers
Steve Richardson
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